[Jon Stratis]

Over the past few years, we've realized that the best information you can get from scouting is straight, qualitative numbers. Things like:

- How many balls scored
- How many balls passed into another zone
- How many shots/passes blocked

Gather those numbers for each zone (defense, midfield and offense). Then if you want to know the best defensive player out there, you look at the defense column - blocks + passes. For the midfield, look at the midfield column - blocks + scores + passes (or drop the passes if you want to pull back the offensive person to be a second midfielder). For offensive, look in the offensive column - scores.

Have good, objective numbers makes alliance picking extremely easy - and it makes selling yourself extremely easy too. It's hard to justify "well, our shots are more accurate than anyone else's" without numbers - being able to say "during our matches on Friday, we made 34/37 attempted shots on goal. We had the most attempted shots, and the highest success rate of anyone at the competition" will make your team look a lot better.