Convincing a team to go electronic

[Ringo5tarr]

I have seen implementations of both electronic and physical scouting on 1764, and I feel like both have their faults. We did field scouting with a team made app on our school issued laptops, it was a tad bit of a hassle to scout this way as the controls weren't very intuitive compared to the natural motions of using a pencil and paper, also digital had the issue of sharing, we had >10 different members each with their own laptops, so the scouting info all had to be sent to a single laptop for compiling and comparison, it didn't allow for quick looks at different teams when in a bind. Now physical wasn't used to field scouting, and I can't say that it would be good for that, doing different scouting sheets for 6 teams for so many matches is not a good idea, but paper is simple, and you can grab some basic abilities per team from pit scouting before consulting them on strategy before a match (e.g. what defenses can they take, what do they prefer?) but it isn't feasible as a way to determine picks unless you want to take all that information (from field scouting) and condense it to a usable comparison

Tl;dr: If you do take it on, you will have to test it and refine your design to make sure that it feels right o else you're going to make scouting (particularly field scouting) much worse for student's than it already is, try to have a design made before consulting the rest of your team