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What is the main focus of your scouting, is it for strategy? For picking partners in finals? A little of both? Something else entirely?
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A little of both, usually.
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What information is important for your scouts to collect? Drive train, arm info, etc.
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What the team does or does not do in a match. The technical stuff takes a bit of a back seat if you use field scouting...
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How much set-up time goes into preparation for your team's scouting?
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I think I put about 2 hours of work in on our sheet, then others revised it, so I don't know exactly.
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How many people are usually involved in the scouting, and how much time are they expected to put in?
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As many as we can get! Actually about six or seven people spend as much time as they can spare and call for relief when they leave.
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How many teams do you scout at your regional?
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All of them, usually. If you are at one of the competitions 330 is at, you are scouted at least once.
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When is your scouting usually "done" by? Is it ready on Friday for the first match, or is it only used in finals? Somewhere in between?
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We use some of the data to find out about our partners and opponents, but mostly for alliance selection. We have enough on Friday night to start strategizing, but we don't finish until sometime Saturday.
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What methods do you use for your scouting? Randomly scribbled notes? Fill-in the blank scout sheets? Statistical analysis? Match Records? Something else? Extra feedback here would be very helpful.
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Fill in the blank scout sheets that last several matches (five matches, this year). Comments are made as necessary.
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How much of your scouting is done on a computer? (Includes those print-offs)
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The match reports go to someone with a laptop and are entered into a spreadsheet. Print-offs are not done, the data on which teams we want to choose is hand-written by our team captain after it is compiled.
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How effective/successful is your scouting?
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Very effective. We usually have a list that matches how things turn out with reasonable accuracy.
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2003-2007: FRC0330 BeachBots
2008: FRC1135 Shmoebotics
2012: FRC4046 Schroedinger's Dragons
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