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Originally Posted by Rho+

Our team has made the choice to avoid pit scouting at all costs. This is mainly based on the fact that most teams talk up their capabilities, and then those of us in charge of strategy are left with sorting through the facts and opinions. So, all of our energy is aimed towards compiling data on the field. This works for us, but I don't doubt that pit scouting has its advantages, however, for a small team, like my own, distribution of work based on priorities is essential.

On a separate note, I am very impressed with having an app pre-made for compiling data at competition. I have utilized the capabilities of google sheets for data compilation and computation, so I envy a team that can go to such lengths. I've been wondering for some time if there is a way to hardwire several devices together to overcome the wifi-barrier. Being able to figure out the data instantly over more than one laptop would be very helpful to our scouting program.

We deal with the same problem of skewed data, but to just ditch the pit scouting overall is not a good idea. The pit scouting is the only thing that will give you an idea for your match strategy. If you notice something wrong with how they preform correlating with what they said, make a note of that immediately. But yes, quantitative data is what we use as the back bone to our decisions on Saturday Morning. It would be awful to not have that at our finger tips.