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Originally Posted by jamie_1930
First off I'm the Drive Team Captain for my team, 2228, and I have been for since the beginning of last season. To this date I have yet to find any of our scouting information useful during competition. 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. Plus for the past several years for scouting we've made up our sheets, and constructed our database, then at competition we make up a schedule and have every team member rotate in sitting there and circling in bubbles like they're taking a test instead of enjoying themselves at the competition. I think it be much better if we just did away with scouting.
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This is actually how I felt all the way up until this year. At Palmetto, one member on the drive team would receive a text about the opponents and I would know pretty much how to handle the match from that.
But when I got to worlds and I saw what some of the other teams were doing, that was intense. For example, we played with team 217, and they had a folder of information for each team. We were able to sit down and develop a game plan without leaving the pits. And then another team had an entire excel database, which was pretty awesome.
I think that if you can scout, and you can scout well, then it will be to your advantage. But if your scouting information is lacking, or the people are not focused, then you'll find the data might not be worth while.
- Sunny