[Jon Stratis]

When we scout, we look for quantitative data, not qualitative. Having notes that "robot1 is terrible" is qualitative - there's no basis for comparison between two robots that are considered terrible. Quantitative data, on the other hand, would tell you the final scores, how many totes each robot stacked, etc - Room for a direct comparison between robots, as even "terrible" ones would have two numbers that could be compared.

If you can, I recommend you guys sign up and attend SRS in two weeks (Since your a local MN team!) on Saturday the 18th. I believe 2052 is doing a session there on scouting which could be valuable, and I'm doing a session that includes a lot of details about the FRC Event API, a service FIRST created last fall that lets you get information from the FMS about every match played - it could definitely be used as part of a scouting program, written before the event, that could give you some nice rankings of teams based on quantitative data!. And the best part - you don't need 6 people watching every match to use it, you can just run your program at the end of the day and get info for every match played!