[EricH]

Originally Posted by SentientCitrus

...and yet how do you quantify reliability? If not quantified, how do you assure that you're making non-biased decisions?

There are ways.

Let's say that a team is scoring 30-40 points per match, and then suddenly, for a match or two, they go down to 10-20. Then they go back up to 30-40 for a match or two, then down, then up. That's an almost surefire indicator that they are not reliable. It may be that it's different drive teams, or it may be something much more serious. Track me so far?

If a team is consistently getting broken, your scouts can also note that. The team's performance will suffer if they can't fix their robot for the next match.

There are a number of ways to do this, but you can almost certainly do it with the data you already collect.

For me, my biggest concerns this year are: 1: reliability; 2: points scored; 3: points scored on; 4: presence (or not) of an automode. 5 would be collected vs scored; 6, the HP. Other than that, where do they load up?