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Re: The merits of treating robotics tourneys like a game of Fire Emblem
The other merit of quantitative scouting over qualitative scouting that doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet is that it's much easier to extend out as the events get bigger and bigger. If you have a specific set of things that you're looking for in a robot for your alliance, anyone on your team will be able to sit down for some number of matches and see if any team that they watch has that particular set of skills. You said that your scouting is run generally by ~2 people or so. While he can sit and talk about and remember each team for a, say, 40 team event, what happens when your team goes to Championship and the number is almost doubled to 75 teams? (Or heaven forbid some of the 100 team championships of the past!) Can you really trust a single person to remember specific points of every single team?
Being qualitative about scouting is fine, so long as your data is backed up partially by some sort of quantitative data. IE: Strong driver will usually correlate by putting up a high score.
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