Complete scouting overhaul - where to start?

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Phyrxes makes a good point about technology needs for an overhaul, and I will make a point about the determination needs.

Make sure that if you do this overhaul, everyone is on board. For the past two years, I've spent a lot of time and effort searching for scouting solutions, convincing the students to use this method, and then making sure the students have everything they need, only to see the blunder of one careless person cause the entire operation to go haywire.

This is a full time job, and the dedication required to do this at an all-star level is sometimes more than what a team can afford.

As for your questions.

(1) We've only recently started placing an effort in scouting. So we look for dependable veterans to pick up the scouting ticket. No one really steps forward to say that they're going to scout, and well, I think that's played a part in our short comings.

(2) There's a ton of useful software out there. My favorite has to be the Cheesy Poof system. It's a nice, comprehensive system which allows for the collection of quantitative and qualitative data, and it presents the data in a nice, manageable way.

Dr. Ed Law, goes by 'Ed Law' on the forums, also posts scouting spreadsheets of data for teams in the events. These spreadsheets are all numbers, but they give a person a good feeling about how things are moving.

- Sunny G.