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Re: Scouting Sheets- 5099

Here are my thoughts:
  • Most of the pit scouting info can easily be observed from matches. I recommend using pit scouting to assess things that are harder to observe during the match, such as drivetrain details, type of shooter/climber/intake mechanism, or assessing robustness.
  • Four balls per second is too low a maximum. Even if four balls per second were to be the hard limit for a shooter, consider that some robots will have multiple shooters.
  • The sheets say nothing about auto. The gear is worth 50% more in auto (an extra half a rotor) and fuel is worth three times as much.
  • The sheets say nothing about the number of shots or goals per cycle. There is no way to differentiate between a robot that puts 10 fuel in the high goal and one that puts in 50.
  • The sheets say nothing about the number of fuel cycles or fuel-scoring actions. There is no way to differentiate between a robot that scores 50 fuel once a match and a robot that scores 50 fuel four times a match.
  • The sheets say nothing about how game pieces are acquired. Loading station? Off the floor? Hopper?
  • There's nowhere for miscellaneous notes.

Note that by collecting so much objective scoring info via pit scouting, your data will likely fall prey to what I like to call the "pit scouting effect". People tend to remember what their robot can do, not what it typically does. I'm not saying they lie, it's just what they remember. Keep this in mind when analyzing pit scouting data.
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