well, somebody had to be first

[Mike Soukup]

These are the kinds of problems we should deal with now while we have nothing better to do with respect to scouting databases.

From our experience last year, we know how hard it is to get a group of teams to agree on a set of data to capture, so I like your idea. Last year, team 111 was interested the time it took for a robot to perform specific tasks (driving, grabbing goal, scoring, balancing, etc) and team 108 was more interested in scaled ratings, so we compromised and included both. With more teams it will be more difficult to include everyone's wishes. So a core set of data that everyone includes, plus some WASH / GMCIA data they feel is important is an excellent idea.

Mike