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Re: Scouting, is it important?

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Originally Posted by jamie_1930 View Post
It's much more useful, I find, to have a few good eyes out there watching the games and then before each match I'll discuss it with them briefly and find out if there is anything they've seen that I haven't or if they think we need to watch out or don't have to worry about at all.
What you've described is also scouting. We try to do both objective scouting (like the paper sheets you describe) as well as subjective scouting where a few smart people try to figure out the teams strategy and tendencies. We scout both for strategy for the next match, and for choosing who to pick. In both cases, we use the objective data as the starting point, and then modify our plans based on the subjective data.

Just like our robot, we improve the scouting throughout the season. We usually find that at the first regional we either collect too much objective data, or not the right types of objective data.