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Re: Key Scouting Points?

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Originally Posted by rick.oliver View Post
You need to be honest about your own capabilities and you need to know your partners' capabilities. (Yes, some teams may exaggerate their capabilities).
I think one thing we're going to work on with pit scouting is verifying teams can do what they say they can do.

Ex: On our scouting app, we have an option for teams that have climbing mechanisms to say if they successfully climbed or not, but also one to say they didn't have the chance. I'm worried data will be skewed if a team says they can climb (but actually can't b/c part is broken or part is jammed), and scouters mark it as didn't get the chance to climb purely because they have the parts to do it on the bot.

Is this something I should be worried about or is this reading into the situation too much?

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Originally Posted by rick.oliver View Post
What you may want to consider is having a set of scouts who are focused on the upcoming partners and opponents who can provide the freshest perspective to the drive team for their match strategy discussion. These folks would be separate from the scouting team collecting the data for later evaluation during alliance pick list development.
Our current structure is to sign all attending team members (except drive team, team captains, etc.) up on a sheet - they are responsible for showing up to our scouting area during their assigned match number and scouting the team they are asked to look at. This way we don't have to task 12 unfortunate souls with scouting for 2/3 days straight. I, along with 2 or 3 others, plan on interpreting the data they submit and will formulate a strategy to give to the drive team before their next match.
I also heard someone recommend we have trained scouters that are watching most all of the matches (say it's a team of 24 so 12 rotate out every couple of games). Thoughts on that type of scouting? What does your team do?

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Originally Posted by rick.oliver View Post
Video of matches to confirm or correct scouting data is also helpful, too.
Has anyone had experience with this? I agree it would be helpful but watching possible alliance partners and our own matches is no short task. Any ideas to optimize this?

TL;DR What do your teams do that make scouting more unique or efficient than the next?
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