[brasspenny]

sure,

Mostly it is a lot of work and organization by our scouting team. We use an excel spread sheet to log any attributes we think are important. Scoring. clearing balls in autonomous, crossing humps, tunneling, blocking robots that possess balls, scoring from mid field, scroring from goalie, etc. for every bot in the regional. But make sure they are quantifiable things, not agressive or fast. Data will be biased by the persons opinion.

It doesn't really matter what you want to log, that is up to you, but it should be quantifiable.

Make data entry sheets listing these attributes, scouts (6 kids for each match) add team number and match number and log the occurances for each bot. After each match have someone log the data into your spread sheet.

then create weights for each attribute. IE if you are ranking forwards, you are interested in what? don't care much if they can score from the mid field so this would be a low weighted skill. Scoring, hanging are big. retreating to the midfield is a good ability so is weighted but not as heavily. Kicking over one bump is also a lightly weighted attribute. But for a forward we don't care about defense or ability to block shots, etc.

Add up the points and rank all three positions, plus we do an MVB for most valuable bot. The weighting is subjective but that is pretty much up to you. IE for our goalie we didn't rank scoring goals at all, no value as we want a defender, but the ability to clear balls is desireable.

Don't have the actual weighting here, I'm out of town, but that is just opinion anyway. Kids looked at mine and then did their own anyway.

hope this helps,

let me know if you get it. Really not difficult just a lot of work.