Potential Scouting Form

[PHINFAN54]

Hello my name is Dante.
I'm from team 3015 located in Spencerport, NY. Our team has been developing a scouting form that can be used for scouting at the competitions. This form can help with deciding on possible alliances for the elimination round. Hope it helps; feedback is appreciated.

[mayde]

That's a really great idea. I like your layout. It's neat and concise. I could see that being a very valuable tool for teams in the scouting process.
Thanks for sharing

[come-at-me-bro]

Gorgeous. I like it.

[Zephyr Foxworth]

I like how it looks, and the size is conservative of paper too.

However, there is no need to include the Balance scores for elimination matches, since scouting will most likely be over by that point.

Also, I feel it may help to keep note of the match number, in case you would want to compare the information of all robots in a specific match to see how an Offensive/Defensive ability worked against another.

[pyroslev]

Already taken and modified it with the help of the students. Also need to add in there about fouls, DQs and speed of robots capabilities. Beyond that, a good sheet.

[PHINFAN54]

Thank you all for the feedback, and based upon everyones feedback I have created an updated version from the last scouting form. Hope you like it and again feedback is welcome.

[BrendanB]

Good scouting sheet. One thing I'd recommend after scouting a few years and this may come down to what your are comfortable with, but I'd recommend doing tally marks over numbers so you don't have, "Was that 3 or 4 shots they made?". This way you can tally as you go so you don't have several numbers in your head at once.

Another tip. Leave a small section for strengths and weaknesses. We found this great when you need a robot that has a certain quality (defense, pushing, blocking, moving tubes, feeding, removing balls, empty cell, human feed) that can make or break an alliance.

All in all, good sheet and best of luck to you!

[ChristopherSD]

Made this one a few weeks ago. Google Docs is only so useful with formatting.

Just added a "Bridge X-ing" spot...and a watermark, because I want credit for this.

[Squeakypig]

My suggestion to you is to have 2 forms of scouting sheets (hopefully you have the personnel to pull this off).

The first set of scouting sheets is specifics for each robot and the team mentality towards their own robot. You go around the pits asking teams about what their robot is capable of, what strategies they plan to use, what problems they have been running into, etc. This is also a good time to take a picture of their robot and archive it on a memory stick or something for a scouting meeting which should take place after the first day of competitions.

The second set of scouting sheets is pure numbers. This sheet is used during actual matches. Use tally marks instead of numbers like previously suggested. You can compare this scouting information to the information you get from the pits to develop a pick list and to develop strategies with your alliances.

Personally, I believe if you are scouting all 6 teams on the field you do not need to note what "other robots balancing on bridge". You will already have that information on the other sheets. Instead, just have a free area titled "Misc. Comments". This is usually where we put defensive strategy if they were a defensive bot or maybe "bot balanced because other team had auto balancer" or "team balanced because Children of the Swamp was there".

Giving credit where credit is due: These basic scouting strategies of simplicity in the stands scouting combined with the pit scouting was taught to us by team 217 - The Thunderchickens.