[anushad]

When scouting as an alliance captain, most pit scouting/excel sheet data (at least for us) is pretty useless except for a few columns: you have to consider your entire alliance strategy and the types of teams you would want moving forward. Our scouting app does the math for us, but basically what we do is create several lists of teams based on their skills at tasks we need for a successful alliance.

For example, this past year we were alliance captains at our qualifying events. As a low goal/breacher/ferry robot, it was important for us to have at least one high goal shooter on the alliance-so we had a list of all of the teams with high goals shooters, ranked. We also had a similar list of teams that played defense, though defensive skill was much harder to quantify. Of course, it's important to check that the robot has not been completely destroyed prior to picking it.