TOO much scouting info???

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

It's all good and well to use points scored as a criterea, but don't do what a lot of teams do and overlook defense when you're planning.

True, it's the complete picture you're looking for. I know we've run the gambit as far as good ways to characterize a team and bad ways to characterize a team - one thing I especially note is that team members like to tell you they can give you the world (if picked) and end up doing nothing on the field. Noting what they say they can do and what they actually do (and how they do it) is critical, but as many people have said already it comes down to what info your drivers have when it comes time to pick. Ebolagirl had a good point - drivers have usually seen nothing, and all your scouting data is useless without some kind of way to say, "Pick this team if they're available." Having tons of raw data from the scouts is kinda useless without a rubric for scoring that data, and then it turns into a matter of how well the rubric was designed. In the end it's all about gut feeling anyway; at least at Lone Star when it comes time to pick the third alliance member there are a large pool of qualified teams who all rank very similar - how do you know who to pick then?

-Danny