We also use a combination of paper and computer scouting. We have 6 kids in the stands looking at each robot during a match - counting rings scored, ramping, etc... and we send several kids to the pits for detailed team information. All of that information is feed into an Access database. We use all of that data to help determine strategy before a match. If anyone would like a copy of the access database that we have developed, I would be happy to send it to you. If you are going to be in Annapolis at the Chesapeake Regional, come see us and we can give you a copy of what we use.
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Originally Posted by tjcasser
768 has been doing it the old-fashioned way (six scouts in the stands working with paper reporting sheets and two or three with pit-reporting sheets doing interviews) for a few years now. The issue becomes a paper-shuffle before each of our matches to see what the capabilities and performance of the other teams involved are.
Last year, we abortively tried a PDA-based application that just got away from us, but ended up resorting to the paper sheets again when it became too large of a task to get everything entered in a timely fashion. This year's assumption was simply to go with the paper sheets anyway, with having a laptop in the stands to run our new application and collect the data. The base idea is that it should take the person on the laptop no more than a minute to enter the information on a single match.. and thus far in our tests (Trenton on Friday), it seemed to be working fine, since no one has proposed to change the system before Finger Lakes next week.
We'll see how it works for us.
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