[Martinez]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

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.

QFT. Pit Scouting is what can you do. Field Scouting is how well can you perform. All because they have a kicker, that does not mean it works as well as they had intended or the drivers to pull it off. IMHO it is also important to look at every team over the course of 3-4 matchs in order to get a quality data trend.