[Clinton Bolinger]

We did something very similar at MARC as well.

Our scouting team had 6 people scouting, one for each robot on the field.

There was one scouting sheet per team, that had all of their matches listed.

After a few matches the scouting sheets were passed to a person entering the data through out the day, then back to the scouters.

The excel sheet would create printable Match Overview sheets that were delivered to drive team before each match. Which included real time statistics (average, Min, Max, and Rank) for Team Contribution, Hybrid Lane Markers, Hurdles, and Laps. The Match Overview sheet would also insert the team name and picture of the robot. As well as the estimated scores for the red and blue alliance.

Our scouters did an amazing job of scouting and they system worked very well. Although it had one fatal flaw, since each sheet was based on individual teams and not matches, the sheets had to be passed to the data entry person then back to the scouters. Ultimately our scouting system caused us to miss a potential 1st round pick (HOT Team 67). At MARC HOT did not do that well in the first few matches (which we had entered) but after match 19 their performance on the field kept increasing and was missed.

So for our next competition (Kettering Kickoff) we will have 6 sheets (automatically generated from the match schedule) one for each robot position (Red 1,2,3 and Blue 1,2,3), with 4 matches on each page. Once the all 4 matches have been played the sheet moves to the data entry person and then gets filed away.

If any one cares to see it in action at Kettering Kickoff, feel free to swing by our pits.

-Oris-
EngiNERDs - Team 2337