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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
We get pit scouting and drive team information as the competition goes on. We've had specific task questions the last two years about robot configuration that we can't really see from the stands, and that our scouts probably can't discern. Our drive team and match tactician gives input about working with particular teams.
We do the quantitative ranking and then we use the pit scout and drive team info to move teams up and down. The fact is that 10-12 matches is not enough observations, and those observations are not independent of each other. Teams change performance over the tournament. The initial ranking is a starting point. Then we introduce the non quantifiable factors such as drive train configuration (no mecanum until this year), robot configuration and team cooperation. And we include our past experiences. We moved both 1671 and 5012 up our list because of positive experiences with their organizations.
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This is almost exactly what we do, except our pit scouting question list is generally very long and uses language that approaches legalese. This will be changing in the coming season as we've found that a lot of the criteria go unused. Our pre-scouting data is largely qualitative but we have a spreadsheet that runs through a team's season info and shows what events a team was at, component OPRs, etc. The most valuable pe-event data we get is notes from scouters watching match videos. Early in the event, we rely on those notes heavily in doing match strategy, and we slowly progress over to using event data. Our picklists are primarily based on quantitative performance in relation to what type of robot we want. (i.e. the first picklist this year started with the highest-scoring feeder bot with a stack auto) Second picks are much more based in utility, not in scoring ability. Teams move up, down, or off the list based on qualitative data, our personal experiences with them, and drive team comments. Some teams are immediately put on the DNP list because of repeated bad experiences with them, although this is uncommon.