Make Scouting Fun?

[Ed Law]

On Team 2834, scouting team uses data collected and displayed on tableau and propose strategy for next match, coaches approve strategy and scouting lead/coaches tell drive team what to do in the next match. Then drive coach and scouting lead go to alliance partners and propose strategy and reach consensus. During match, drive team just executes plan agreed by all alliance partners.

As you can see, the most important job on our team is scouting team. They drive all our match decisions and certainly alliance selection. We also use tablets to gather data which is more fun. Our scout team is very motivated. I have never heard of any of them deliberately turning in blank data. Maybe because they knew how obsessed I am with data.