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Re: paper: Martian Scouting Sheets

I think this is a good sheet but I have an issue with it(and most scouting sheets.) Numbers are useful for choosing teams and for highlighting teams that are consistently succesful or rooting out teams that aren't obviously very effective.

However I like to have a very human perspective on robots. People are recording these statistics not machines so they can make judgements a little bit more advanced than just if they scored a tube or not. Try making a section for writing down how to play defense on the robot. The goal being notes like, "if you push them from the front they often drop their tube" or "if you just sit in front a spider leg they won't be able to score there." You might also want a box for how they interact with opposing robots, "They often run defense by driving sideways in front of the goal, place ringers on the side of the spider if they are playing defense in this manner."

Notes like that give you a much better sense of the robot you're facing in the context of how a driver is going to handle their robot. As a driver I relied on information like this to know when to play defense, which goals to go for and what to watch for in opposing robots.

Also one other addition to this sheet is a a drawing or two of the playing field that you can use to draw out the exact path the team takes during autonomous. It comes in handy when trying to plan defense autonomous modes or when trying avoid one of their defense autonomous modes.
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