Scouting: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Poll

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

In my experience, I've found that, at least in FRC, qualitative impressions of a robot are quite a bit better than attempts to quantify performance.

Depends whose qualitative impression, though. It is easy to find people to record simple statistics of one robot per match. It is very much harder to find people that can identify strengths and weakness of robots and remember them for a big chunk of the teams at an event. Outside the top handful of teams at an event, I'd bet the average scout couldn't tell you much of anything for around 50% of teams.

[Zuelu562]

My team is looking at Quantitative results mostly strictly to determine what defenses we should put out against any given robot(s). Qualitative and Quantitative combine for our internal rankings of the robots as far as eliminations.

Make sure that if you are focusing on your quantitative data, you keep track of their partners and opponents. It can skew a team's trend if they are the middle of the pack team doing all the work for two bottom-quarter robots or if they are the "cheesecake" to 2 extremely highly efficient teams, or if they face the "best" defensive team at the event.