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Originally Posted by Chris is me
That doesn't mean you take everyone's "we can score 10 balls" seriously in pits and don't check, but you don't need to put whether or not they can hang on the stand scouting sheet, or how far they can physically hit the ball.
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I rarely find value in pit scouting. Other than taking a picture and looking at the drivetrain, I just don't find any value in what teams say about their robot. I'm not saying that every team lies or exaggerates, but I care HOW WELL you can do something not IF you can do it. If you came to our pit in 2007, we would have told you we had ramps. We did, but, I think, we only deployed them twice and never came close to getting anyone elevated. So, a team may have a device to hang, but does it work?
My team hasn't started our scouting discussions yet, but what I will favor is a box that says "Did they hang" and then a general comments section. Thus, we can find out if they score ponts and can write down comments (like, it took them half the match to hang, hung in 5 seconds, tried but ran out of time to hang...) so we know more than just if they did it or not.