Who else uses scouting sheets?

[Nita]

Team 1190 uses scouting sheets as well.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Well... 648 uses scouting sheets. Both pit and stand/match. They are then entered into a statistical database using Excel. This year we accurately counted the number of balls made by a single robot, how defensively minded a team was, the speed of a shooter, and their autonomous tendencies. I would post more info but the system is kinda secretive until perfected, I suppose. Ed does a great job on it every year. And thanks to the students that input the info into the computers. The data helps a lot as a coach.

[Graham Donaldson]

You can count 1676 in for this year at Palmetto as well, however we merged the two, comps and paper. Round-to-round scouting was done on papers, which then came to me at the top of the stadium for compilation. The team by team stats were printed out before each round and run down to the drive team for planning. Next year we want to develop a system that can be on a network we set up that can be accessed by the drive team in the pits on a laptop that can get a wireless signal. When a person scouts a team, after he is done he will save the info on the server and it will automatically appear on the screens it should. This is how I want to see it, but I don't know how it will work out. Our district (Pascack Valley Regional High School District in upper Bergen County, NJ) gives each student a SONY VAIO laptop with wireless access, so this makes this system much easier for us. Anyways, that's how I want to do it. But you can never beat paper for quick, flawless transfer of data (why do computers crash???)

The Canuck