Motivating your Scouts

[StevenB]

Originally Posted by depth_Finder

What strategies have you seen used or used yourself to keep scouting fun?

When I was part of 1519, our primary motivator was that we won matches with scouting data. Many teams think of scouting data as a means to make their pick list on Saturday - but it's also invaluable in every match. After many events, an email would go out to the effect of, "In match 34, our alliance was statistically less powerful than our opponents. But thanks to the scouting data, we knew that opposing team X needed to do Y to be an effective scorer, and so we specifically targeted that. We ended up winning the match by three points."