[EricH]

As a scout for a veteran team, I usually look at what a robot does on the field. The pit crew can say what they want, but actions speak louder than words. My team uses a spreadsheet with all the thing you can do. We have a ranking system for how well a robot does things, and we put a rank into a printout. When a sheet is full, we turn it in for a new one and someone enters the data into the spreadsheet. The different tasks have different weightings based on our robot's function. After qual matches, we use the total of the robot rankings to choose who we want as partners if we are in the top eight.

Hope this helps.

--Eric