[Citrus Dad]

How many scouts do you have available?

Our system uses 8 scouts. We started this in 2013. We believe that our standard scouts are too inexperienced to give good relative qualitative information. Also we've found asking them to keep track of that as well distracts them too much from inputting the key quantitative data that we use. So we have 6 scouts, one per robot, tracking scoring and other measurable metrics. This is the basis for our 1st pick list.

We then have 2 other "superscouts" who watch each alliance. They rank the teams within each alliance 1 to 3 across 4 parameters for qualitative measures such as evasion, blocking, speed and pushing ability. Across many matches, these rankings provide fairly good measures of relative abilities. We use this data primarily for our 2nd pick list.

We have mentors in the stands then taking some added notes on peculiar or particular aspects that we add in, but those are not extensive.