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Originally Posted by Bjenks548
I see your point to scouting not being important, however I have to disagree. As the lead strategist for 548 I have found that assigning a few robots to a student to know inside and out helps a lot. Going to your alliance partners and knowing what robot works best in which zone helped out a ton. Also guessing at your opponents strategy was helpful because it told you where your alliance might need two robots or where to play defense. I also agree that some of the scouting done is worthless. Again this year, I don't need to know what kind of ball possessor a robot uses, just how well it works. That's just my observations from two years on drive team and one year of strategy.
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Our team has never entered a match without strategy influenced from our scouting material. Our team has developed our scouting over the years and have an advanced system to chart what a robot does and how long they play zones. It has tremendously helped our alliance selections and have made several good picks in every tournament, the most notable would be team 1058 at GSR this past year. They made it through to be the third pick by the number 2 alliance as many alliances had overlooked them based on rank the day before, our scouting data showed them to be high in ball advances and scores. Our data has been extremely effective in determining match strategy and have won many matches every season that seemed to be un-winnable, but were due to determining a solid strategy based on facts.
Just my thoughts.