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Re: Qualitative Scouting?
In my experience heading up our team's scouting department, both qualitative and quantitative scouting can be VERY helpful, but you need to address the inevitable issues before the competition:
Generally speaking, the problem with qualitative information is that different scouts have different reactions on the same event, and some form of training/ rubric is extremely helpful, even 100% necessary if your scouts are, like ours, younger team members.
If you go quantitative, you need to make sure that you can accurately interpret the data you get. If you don't attach any external meaning to a statistic you collect (shots, cycles, etc) it literally isn't a statistic any more, and looses its value as a result. Also, It's a good idea to add a "comments" area: some times, it's not obvious if action X should be counted in statistic Y, so allowing the individual scout to write it down is quite helpful.
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