Re: GUSS Scouting System
This is truly one of the best systems I've seen out there - Thanks Coder.
I fyou plan to convert to the 2003 version there is a flaw if you have too many teams, like we do for the upcoming Connecticut Regional [week 5 = 60+ teams]. Excel '03 limits your colums, so the team sheets just stop being created and you can even manuall y add them Works fine in 2007 though. Again this isn't a problem with this program rather with Mr. Gates and Microsoft's shortsightedness in '03 version.
When this sytem highlights your team (956) was highighted, but only in two fields on the blue alliance. Didn't work on the red alliance. If I changed out the "Our Team #" on the matches sheet (L14 I think it is) to be our team (1991) our team numbers are not highlighted in any sample matches I created. Again, only a minor issue with this excellently planned out system.
I did make a change to your "Paper Sheet". We have found, by just scouting at the Boston Regional (economic hardships have caused us to only enter our robot in the CT Regional, but we did make a day trip with some team members) that those that are scouting can only concentrate on one robot & HP at time. So, I have just change yours to only have 1 team monitored at a time. However, this allows me to have 8 matches on a single page. We plan to have 6 students scouting at a given time. Again, this may not be viable by a smaller team, but in no way deters from this scouting system. more of a personal observation for our own team.
I plan to run the results of the Bsoton regional through it to see how accurately the scouting system works. We have some heavy hitters coming to CT, so I'll keep you posted But, from tests I've done with it:
1) I looks easy to use - once all teams and matches have been entered
2) Matches could be quickly entered by one person
3) Scouting is made easier - even by new members to a team. So smaller teams can still get results with minimal effort
4) Results would be quick - helping a team if you are lucky enough to pick an alliance in the finals.
Good luck everyone.
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