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Re: Key Scouting Points?
As a past driver, the most useful information for me during qualifications would have been any quick easy tactics to shut down the next opposing alliance (maybe all of the bots cannot intake balls of the ground, so go dump all the hoppers right away. Stuff like that.). Or ways to show off our own bot to the higher ranking teams if we aren't doing well.
If you're in a position to pick, find a strategy that you want to aim for for your alliance and fill that alliance to the best of your ability. Example: my team's 2016 bot could not shoot high goals, but we could play great defense. We HAD to pick two high goal shooters. Didn't matter if they weren't the highest percentage shooters. We had to have the two best that we could get. So if you know this strategy that you need for playoffs, scout to find those teams.
During playoffs, same thing about the shut down tactics as in quals. This info has to be fast and furious coming from the stands down to the drivers. Drivers don't have much time to analyze the data, so come to a conclusion and tell the drivers that, don't hand them a folder of stat sheets for them to try and scan through.
Feel free to ask questions if my jumbled mess of text wasn't clear enough.
TL;DR Scouters need to know the game; come up with an overall strategy; fill a planned alliance if you're picking; give drivers answers and ideas, not just data.
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