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Originally Posted by SoccerNerd36
Im a member of a rookie team and i was wondering what are some things that are important to put on your scouting sheets?
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We also have "pit" scouting and match scouting. Pit scouting is a simple sheet that lists types of motors, types of drivetrain, etc about basics of the robot. Then you have various features listed, and checkmark whether the robot is capable of doing that.. (hanging, 2x capping, ball collecting, automode). We have scouts go out usually on Thursday and ask every other team each of these questions.
Match scouting I find the most important/useful. Along with what everyone has said, you need to know the trend of what each robot can and can't do. Although a team told you on Thursday that their robot has the ability to hang, they may not actually do it in matches, or they might remove that feature the next day, or something.
So, list the important items that you want to know about
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mobility, tetra stacking, speed, push power, automode, whatever else you might want.
You can have a "ranking" for each item, where the scout will rank how good they think the robot does a particular task.
Then, you can have a line for each where your scouts can manually write out what that robot did in the match, for each of those topics, like a summary of their match performance, but broken down. So.. i.e for push power - if a robot gets easily pushed around all match, you would note that there. Automode - if a robot did nothing, write that. If it stacked a vision tetra, write that. Speed - if a robot is super slow/fast, write that. If it has multiple speeds and uses them well, write that.
You can then have an additional comments section for misc things like... if a robot tips easy... if they drove in circles...if there's something unique... anything not covered in your specific topics.
I feel this helps identify a trend in how a team plays, and what their strategies might be. This helps for when you are with AND against them. It also helps to figure out who is compatible with your own robot if going into finals, and it helps identify the reliability of their robot.
You just have to figure out what is important to your team, and record it. It can sometimes be intensive for the scouts, but they need to understand how vital that information can be to the driveteam. You can review all your scout reports Friday night, and possibly narrow down the list of teams that you specifically want to scout more extensively on Saturday, in order to relieve some work for the scouts.
Everyone does it differently.