[BenjiSG]

The struggle to manage collecting both quantitative and qualitative data is definitely a tricky one. Our team's solution was to limit quantitative data-collecting to Day 1 of the competition, rank teams that night, and focus on using the Qualifiers on Day 2 to gather more qualitative data about teams we have interest in so that we can adjust their rankings accordingly as we go, similar to what you guys described.

An interesting difference however is that this year we begun to have the Head of Scouting make alliance selections rather than a member of drive team. This was born out of a scenario that happened when we were picking our alliance on Newton at Worlds last year as the 6th seed captain. Our pick for the second robot went fine, with the captain of our drive team following the list, but for the second pick he got mixed up and picked a third robot that used the feeder station instead of the highest recommended landfill bot on the list which ultimately made us go out in quarterfinals.

We actually do paper scouting based on team rather than field position, but we make sure to use one sheet per team and simply pull it out each time that team has a match, which winds up giving us a fairly comprehensive report on each robot.

Additionally, we make sure to do pit scouting and gather pictures of each robot there during setup so that we can keep them for reference during competition. Later, we can cross-reference our field and pit scouting to see if teams claim to do anything they haven't been trying.