[JDM]

Team 2199 keeps a very simple scouting sheet, which allows us to recall specific traits about each robot to go along with team members' general observations. It works well for us, but if you don't have several people who stay generally aware of the teams and how their robots are doing then it might not be best. If you have lots of scouts it might be better for you to go with a complex system that simply gathers lots of data.

For pit scouting, there's a series of yes/no questions that reflect traits we would look for in alliance partners, a ranking for team attitude, and a large space for comments. Simple questions like "do you have an autonomous mode" narrow the amount of teams that we consider quite easily, and team attitude also plays an important part of it.

As for field scouting, go with whatever you think is important to you. Our sheets had 1-5 rankings with general categories reflecting the robot and HP's skills in maneuvering and delivering cells, as space for win/lose, penalties, and comments. It was then entered into a spreadsheet later for analysis.

Since I'm talking about it here, I really have to take the time to thank our head scout who came up with this system once again. Without this, we couldn't have done so well.