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Originally Posted by KevinB
Yes, lets clarify some things a bit. I do not claim omnipotence, only reasonable competance. I have been in FIRST 4 years, and I have been to regionals where teams have set up public scouting systems; I've seen teams distribute "scouting sheets"; I've seen a lot. I am the strategist for our team, and I can tell you honestly that these systems do not help. A system that *might* help would be one that can give actual match data, such as percentage of balls hit, percentage of autonomous tasks completed, etc.
There is no reason to attack me in the manner that you did phrontist; I was simply stating an opinion.
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As a driver and coache, I agree that most of the stuff detailing a robots supposed "capabilities" (has a 2x ball manipulator, team claims reliable autonomous, etc.) is mostly useless and that what really might be of some help is match records. Ideally, a move by move breakdown for each robot with notes of anything unusual (team XXXX match 27 - autonomous runs hits ball in 7 sec, herds balls for ~30 secs, climbs and hangs in ~35) and then overall numbers gathered from all matches from the team (team XXXX shot percentages, averaged ball herding rates, average hang time, autonomous modes and succes rate/time etc...) This would defenitley be ideal and i think it is manageable by a dedicated team of 4 scouts (one to watch each robot).
It would be nice to have a shared database, but as Kevin pointed out, its hard to take the opinion of people you don't know and who you can't talk about. We did keep a match record (though not nearly as detailed as i suggested) but we still ended up relying in large part to the opinion of the head scout.