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We made the decision this year to just stick with paper scouting. Electronic scouting is nifty and all, but the inconveniences of trying to get reliable WiFi and access to power are too much to make it actually worth it for us. Plus, lost paper is far preferable to lost electronics, and we don't see a great deal to gain from going digital.



Frankly, just printing out excel sheets, allowing them to be filled in by hand, and compiling all useful information digitally after Day 1 proves to be far easier and seemingly just as effective.



If you want to move to electronic scouting, by all means, but don't forget that the paper strategy remains not only an option, but in some ways a more preferable one.
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