Who else uses scouting sheets?

[thatphotochick]

1038 uses scouting sheets, then those are put into Excel.

[themagic8ball]

MARRS is a hybrid sheets/computer system. Though you could theoretically have everything computer based our team uses sheets for both watching a match and then printed scouting reports to show our drive team. We get the best of both worlds because MARRS shows Autonomous maps, comments, as well as numerical data.

[jagman2882]

1126 use a paper scouting sheet, but we also input that in to a computer for rankings and such. the sheet is very helpful for the drivers(first-hand experience) you can usally find what u want instantly and then give it back to the scoutmaster.

[Chris Marra]

177 will never go back to Palm Pilot Scouting for the pits. In fact, we didn't even do pit scoting at UTC or Philly this year. We went around during friday awards, and took a good picture of each team, and made assumptions of capabilities based on that.

For match scouting we have two mentors (ex-team members / drivers) who take their own seperate notes on teams they see in matches, and then we have lots of students who scout every team of every match, and compile that into a big book. So that way we have three seperate opinions, since the mentors are both somewhat opinionated, and the students quality varies.

[Warren Boudreau]

Team SPAM uses scouting sheets. Then we take the information and load it into STAMP for statistical analysis.

Computers are fun, but nothing beats a piece of paper and a pencil.

[nparikh]

Team 25 has finally moved into the future. For as long as I've been on the team, since the '04 season, we've used regular paper scoutings sheets + a filling bin...yay for that.

But after getting frustrated with having over 1200 sheets of paper to store, etc, by the end of 2 regionals, we've finally moved over to a paper/computer system.

Yes, our scouts do record information on scouting sheets (one for the match, one specifically for autonomous)...then that data gets fed into our amazing Scouting Program for analysis, output, and just about everything else under the blue moon!

This year I happened to notice that about 5 of us Robotics kids were in the AP Computer Science Class, and I figured, what a neat way to get hands on experience coding Java & we'd get a really neat scouting program. Regardless, we worked tirelessly with the help of Shoham & Mrs. Morris (our computer science teacher who spent loads of time designing + perfecting it), it was done in time for the NJ Regional.

In addition, we have 2 video cameras taping matches and a photo team that gets pictures of every robot. These are fed into Google's Picasa for labeling, viewing, and searching.

We pride ourselves on the fact that about 95% of the data we collect is pure statistics, leaving out a significant portion of error and uncertainty that occurs with opinionated scouting. Luckily, I've got about 8-10 people that work hard and long all through the competition making sure we have accurate data, footage and pictures.

When the system was finally put into use at NJ & Las Vegas, it proved to be incredibly successful in helping us find the best robots, and also for helping to develop strategy for rounds. At both regionals, we made our scouting data available to any team who wished to take a look through it.

So yeah, we use computer + paper scouting. Paper means we always have a backup. Computers mean we have amazing speed & efficiency when looking up information. I don't think we'll ever look back

[Ebolagirl]

418 just used scouting sheets this year for both pit and match scouting and we organized them in a folder file. We tried using an excel, but it just didn't work out. The sheets were great though. So yeah, I'm all for just having scouting sheets.

[Katlyn_Butzin]

our team does the computer thing but every team member has to scout 3 teams a day and they have to scout 6matches for each team every day! but when we do our normal scouting matches they are on old scouting shets but when we get to the hotel we have a team meeting and discuss our teams and then the drive team has a way of getting pionts for evey thing on the sheets and we keep it in a book for them to look at in the pit but once wenter it into the computer it ranks each team individually...so yea we do alittle bit of both!
((*Katy*)) Team 66

[JC-75]

Don't know if anyone said this yet but one advantage to having scouting sheets is you can give the extras to teams who don't have a system set up... and there are always LOTS of extras =)

[Kyle A]

Team 306 changed SPAMS scouting sheets into something that would work for us.

[pyroslev]

I have almost every sheet downloaded post on CD and various websites. I like to see what other teams look for. The Long ones that the huge teams use get cut down.

Based on what wins, I've revamped and rebuilt my sheets so that pit scoutinggets 6 teams to a page. All of that corresponds with an Access Database which get filled in afterwards

[themagic8ball]

I just posted the MARRS scouting sheets on CD Media. Check them out if you would like.

[Gary Dillard]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

Team SPAM uses scouting sheets. Then we take the information and load it into STAMP for statistical analysis.

If anyone is interested, here is our Poor Man's Scouting System, including a tutorial and downloadable scouting sheets.

We are in the process of modifying the scouting sheets based on feedback from the students over 2 regionals and the important input to the STAMP program - hopefully we'll get it on the website shortly.

[Warren Boudreau]

Originally Posted by Kyle A

Team 306 changed SPAMS scouting sheets into something that would work for us.

Yeah. SPAM has changed it's scouting sheets into something that would work better, too.

Each regional we go to, we come up with improvements. Now we have color and little pictures of the field.

[YonZ]

Our strategy director made an attempt at using STAMP. Feeble at best.
When that failed, someone else stepped up to the plate and worked his butt off coordinating the good old sheet scout method, which included pit as well as gameplay sheets which had digital pictures of robot, a field plan to sketch autonomous, comment boxes, and actual match data stuff in spreadsheet form.
His hard work paid off, as we were able to know everything about teams that numbers generated on a computer program could not show. We knew teams weak spots, how to hold off against them, and how to direct our allies to do the same. His sheets proved useful in the seeding matches, but absolutely awesome in the Final matches, where before each pairing we would take out their teams sheets and use them to devise plans, ultimately taking us to the finals (and putting up an awesome fight against the winning alliance, 395/375/1880, in our last round)