A New Way to Scout

[brandon.cottrell]

Originally Posted by Roger

There is another method, which, for lack of a better term, I would refer as the "Mycroft Holmes" method (Wikipedia's description is incomplete). It is someone that somehow can keep statistics of all the teams in his/her head, and be able to balance off which team would be good, and which to watch out. We've had a couple like that, and they are much better than any other system. I told the team's teachers to look out for a sports fanatic student for this role.

While our team does have it's own form of scouting, I kinda think that this method is what suits me the most. I like to look at regionals I didn't attend and try to work out what teams had the most synergy, and what the best possible alliances would be.