Advice for transition from student to mentor, too involved?

[wesbass23]

My team (and many others) still use paper scouting at regionals and at worlds without any major hiccups. The biggest thing you need to do is have an excel program ready to receive the data after each match. Depending on what type of scouting is needed for that year we usually have 6 scouts plus one person entering in the data. The paper is then put into accordion files. The downside to using paper is having to go back through the cards if you think data was entered incorrectly and the plus side is having the ability to go back through the cards if you want to look closer at a teams notes or if you think the data was entered incorrectly. I would be careful using your new scouting system without first testing it at an event. You would rather sift through a thousand scouting cards than have no data at all.