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Re: Scouting a teams consistency

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Originally Posted by DarkJedi613
I don't think you need to add it to your scouting sheets - you'll be able to tell from comparing the scouting sheets of the same team during different matches.

To be consistent you have to remember that the same person may not always be scouting the same team or the team they're facing or allied with could change performance.
This is why I would suggest putting who they paired with each match, but maybe more importantly a brief summary of what they did during the match. It can help minimize the inconsistency of scout opinions. This paired with a ranking system (I like 1-5 because there is less room to be "average", it narrows the range to be more useful) can tell you all kinds of things. So, if speed and capping tetras are important, put that on the scouting sheet and make sure your scouts rank and describe what the robot did for those specific items. (i.e. "they drove very slow the whole match" or "they did not cap a tetra, but tried 5 times" or "they capped 6 at one time") ...

anything that gives a brief "play by play" can help you get a feel for consistency and strategy, without it being too inconsistent between different scouts opinions. You could also set it up so that certain scouts always scout the same robots. The possibilities are almost endless of what you can do with scouting sheets, but I personally think this works well.
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