Data Scouting

[pabeekm]

Congrats on getting to Worlds!

Our team keeps track of robot performance during each match by filling out a paper form with three main sections.

The first is a small section for autonomous where scouters fill out whether the robot started with a ball, whether they got mobility points, the goal they tried to score in, and if they made it. (In the rare case of a double ball auto, scouters specify the outcome in the notes section).

The second is a big notes section for jotting down qualitative assessments and miscellaneous observations (had awful partners this match, got pushed easily, fast driving, played killer defense, incurred a pinning foul, etc.)

The third section is a fill in the blank about what the robot did with the ball during each cycle, and how long they possessed the ball. For example:

1. role = middleman*, goals = truss, shots = 2, score = 10, time = 10s
2. role = inbounder/scorer**, goals = high/low, shots = 3/1***, score = 1****, time = 45s
3. role = defense
4. role = inbounder, time = 8s

*passed between two alliance partners
** got inbound and went straight to score
*** 3 high goal shots, one low low goal shot
**** made the low goal after missing the high goal shots

This process requires six scouters (one for each robot) and takes up a lot of paper (one half-sheet form per robot per match), but the completeness of the data really helped us evaluate the competing robots' capabilities and helped a ton in strategizing for our matches and picking our winning alliance.

What variables did you guys watch for? Was it just quantitative or also qualitative? I'm always interested in what other teams are looking at.