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Re: Qualitative Scouting?

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Originally Posted by [2040] Keleox View Post
Any thoughts or past experiences?
Oh yes, lots of them. We added qualitative scouting into our system after a first-year scouter voluntarily started taking notes during matches he wasn't doing quantitative for. We didn't even know he was doing it until he walked up to the lead scout with a stack of 20-30 pieces of notebook paper covered in notes. In fact, his notes were so helpful that we added formal qualitative scouting to our system at the next event we attended.

When done properly, qualitative scouting can have a massive impact on your ability to make a strong picklist. Of course, quantitative data and strategic needs always come first, but when two or three teams seem almost exactly the same, the notes provide an amount of clarity that nothing else can.

Here's my advice to you:
-either use an app or laptop to enter notes. Transcribing handwritten notes can be painful.
-if you're doing what I described above, make sure you use a CSV formatting so the data can be imported into an excel spreadsheet for easy organization. I'll post a few of my formulas for doing lookups on this kind of data.
-make sure the scouters know what you want them to write about. I've had qualitative scouters write (and I quote) "YAS LUV" as a qualitative data entry. I'm not kidding.
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