Looking back on 2012 Scouting

[stundt1]

This year was a huge jump for us for scouting. We made scouting requirements that made each member on or team do 3 half hour shifts. We haven't really had scouting attempts in past years. Since we have a larger team we have enough students to have 6 on full time to watch robots.

At our first regional:

Pit scouting:
Pit scouting went out fine this year the sheet was very simple and easy to understand. Pit scouting in my opinion is a lot easier to manage then match scouting.

Match Scouting:
We tried it and it worked out okay. We had flaws of people not knowing when there shifts were and people not showing up. We used laminated scouting sheets to save paper and cut costs of printing. We basically entered the data into a computer and recorded almost all of the Friday matches. We found out the program wouldn't show individual match data so a good portion of our data was not use full. This was very frustrating to us.

At our Second Regional:

We changed up our match scouting and instead of laminated paper we used physical paper. Its got all the data recorded on a sheet for quick look up. It was helpful when I was coaching to go up to the scouts and take a quick look at how a team has been doing that day. We redid the scouting sheet too so we put the team on one page and had all there matches on one page so there was less paper shuffling and less paper used; You could easily look and see the teams stats by looking at one sheet instead of many.

Scouting at our second regional was a huge success and we made a great pick list from our data we gathered from paper scouting. I think personally paper scouting is easier for beginner scouting teams.

In the end:
We still ran into problems with people not paying attention and not caring.
Any ideas on how to encourage people to pay attention during scouting?