Motivating your Scouts

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Since most of our scouting is done digitally there is usually quite a bit of downtown between matches. This year we are going to try and make our scouting team scouting/strategy. The idea is that in between matches, the scouters would look very deeply on the team's next match and try to think of ever scenario that can happen in the match. Then pick the best strategy that will give our team the highest chance of winning and communicate and also listen to feedback to the drive team. This way scouters aren't just recording vitally important data, they are actually using it and see the result of recording that data as their strategy is being executed on the field. I'll let you guys know how it goes after our first regional at AZ. One year we also had a team movie night with the movie MoneyBall. I recommend that everyone especially the scouters watch that movie.

[Rhelik]

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

This year we are going to try and make our scouting team scouting/strategy. The idea is that in between matches, the scouters would look very deeply on the team's next match and try to think of ever scenario that can happen in the match. Then pick the best strategy that will give our team the highest chance of winning and communicate and also listen to feedback to the drive team.

Just wanted to add that last year we used the Falcons software for our scouting and we did exactly this. Our scout team collected the data and then summarized the abilities of our next match to our drive team. They in turn took that to the alliance meeting and worked out strategies for offense and defense based on how well robots on both sides had performed.


Couldn't have done it without the great software the Falcons provided for all to use. Thanks!

-Bernie