Sharing information - not a good idea?

[abigailthefox]

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

I don't think the answers to pit scouting questions have ever been particularly well correlated with robot ability. It seems the way psychology works your best match somehow becomes what you remember as average. Folks don't do it to be devious, they just honestly don't know how well their robot actually performs.

What happens on the field is the truth, everything else is subject to be Best Available Data.

Pit scouting is never very useful...
"Oh yeah, we can make two six stacks! And cap them!"
*match data indicates 1 5-stack on a good day...*

Honestly, it's in the spirit of FIRST to cooperate, and at the end of the day, teams want to be chosen for good alliances, so they'll probably talk up their abilities at least a little. Withholding everything does make you a little overly competitive/borderline paranoid, and honestly when it comes to alliance selection, unless you're a very strong team, it will hurt you more than help you.