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Originally Posted by pntbll1313
If you've been in FRC more than a year you know to take all pit scouting with a block of salt. There are certain things that can always be gleaned from pit scouting. If they tell you they cannot fit under the low bar, they very likely are telling the truth based on the dimensions of their robot. If they tell you they can do a 4 boulder autonomous in the high goal... I'll let my match scouts verify on field performance.
There are things you may be able to get besides drive train and other physical aspects of their bot that can be described during pit scouting. If you have an experienced coach or strategy expert you could send them with with pit scouts. An experienced coach/strategist can figure out how to fit any robot into your alliance and optimize that match. An experienced coach/strategist has also had X number of teams exaggerate their ability time after time to them. If Karthik were told by a team that they had the ability to do xyx I would trust Karthik's judgment on what he "feels" that team could realistically do in a match far more than the optimistic team than did it once in a reveal video.
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Adding on to this,
A team will tell you they can shoot high goal, it could mean
- We can shoot high goal (i.e we have a shooter that made it in shop), but we never actually make it
- We shoot high goal and occasionally make it (4/10 ect.)
- We nearly always make it (8/10)
- We always make it (10/10 or ~)
- Any variant in between
Someone in the pit could also explicitly say one of the categories that are above, but it's still somewhat useless because they could be misinformed.
Typically, scouting specific traits of the robot is a better use of pit scouting.
Ex. Drivetrain - # of wheels, type of wheel, # of cims, ect.
Realistically you can do both at an event since practice matches happen