Who else uses scouting sheets?

[AndyB]

We do scouting sheets. We honestly don't really care much about pit scouting. We do do a little bit. We scout a ton during the matches and have 1 student/mentor/parent take a robot and scout them for that match. Then we have one person as the organizer, who collects the sheets, organizes them into the pile, and then hands out new sheets. This system works pretty well as long as you have enough people to do it.

Unlike a lot of other scouting sheet systems I have seen, we only have 1 sheet per bot. This makes it a lot easier for when we are in a hurry.

Then, if we are in a picking position for the next day, that night, we either:

1.) Have me go through all of the sheets and write up a scouting report for each of them.

2.) Go through the sheets as a team, black listing teams (lol), brown listing teams, and gold listing teams. We also try to rank the top defensive teams we see as well. We did this at Nationals this year, so I don't know if it will stick. After we ranks the teams, I spend the night writing a scouting report on the teams and decide which ones we need more info on.

Then about an hour or so before the picking, I meet up with our team leader(s) and we decide a final ranking sheet for the top 20 or so bots for offense, and the top 7-8 teams for defense (Nationals). At regionals, since there are a lot less teams, we rank all of the teams.