paper: 2006 Excel Scouting database

[Graham Donaldson]

This file is amazing! We were at the NJ regional and I came up with a really lame scouting sheet in a half an hour, and we went with that. But this is so much better than what we had. The only beef I have with it: there's so much to fill out to make it effective. But it's probably OK, because with ours, we were making notes a lot of the time. But with this, I think it will be easier, because you aren't making comments, you're just giving it numbers. Thanks a lot Greg!

The Canuck

[paulcd2000]

Wow. It's just Wow. at chesapeake, we just filled up a notebook with information. This is SO much more neat, and user friendly. It even gives a (rough) score for each robot. I'm very impressed that someone would take the time to go through all of this and write all this up. Thank you very very much.

[Nimmy]

cheers greg, great file
and good calls on the regional the past 2 days =)

[Graham Donaldson]

Hey everybody.

Greg, your database worked like a charm at the Palmetto Regional. It actually got us (a 2nd-year team) picked for I believe the 4th alliance and all the way into the finals. The information that you decided needed to be gathered was so helpful and useful because we knew exactly what robots could do ahead of time and therefore work out strategies for autonomous and the game before the match. The only real problem was that data entry is very time-consuming. I spent 2 hours when we got back to our hotel finishing putting in data for teams that we had to play the next day (this was on Fri). However, all in all, it was an amazing tool, it got us picked for the 2nd-place alliance, and it made a 2nd-year team realize how valuable scouting is, where it takes some teams 5 or 6 years!

Greg, I can't thank you enough.

The Canuck