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Re: Best Ways to Scout

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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad View Post
We've successfully set up a scouting system that can use relatively inexperienced students to keep quantitative counts. We have to work to find the other 2 superscouts who make qualitative judgements. Comparing our system to what we see at regionals and even Champs, we believe having a more rigorous system if more fruitful.
We essentially have the same type of system. We have inexperienced to experienced members being our regular stand scouts keeping quantitative counts, but in our scouting application there is a comments section where our scouts summarize the match in words so that's why we don't need super scouts. Although, some experienced scouts still take notes and as the strategist whenever I watch matches I take notes, so in a way we have super scouting. It's worked pretty well for us so far, but we still have some refining to do there in preparation for champs.

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Originally Posted by Abhishek R View Post
Paper to Excel is a pretty reliable, time-tested method.
I'll agree with this. Even though my team uses an android scouting application, paper to scouting (or even laminated sheets, I recommend laminated sheets) can be SUPER reliable as well- try and make a good paper/excel scouting system if your team can't muster a good electronic scouting system IMO. Paper can get annoying if not properly organized, but if properly organized, it can works wonders.
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