Scouting Sheet

[astephen68]

The scout sheet is good Thanks

[astephen68]

Does anybody else have any good scouting sheets that I could look at?

[Cyberguy34000]

I'd strongly recommend making your own. Every team has different priorities and values different things about robot strengths and weaknesses. Just going over the discussion with your scouts over what's really important is a good excercise. You'll usually find at competition that you'll really only be using 4-5 actual metrics when you ended up recording 2 dozen or so. When you are making it, keep in mind that you've got to be able to answer questions about a team within seconds, so knowing what your team will be looking for is important.

Good luck!

-Chris

[astephen68]

Thanks but I was wondering if there is like a scout sheet that i can look at to make my own one!!

[EricH]

I'll do a little schpeel on how 330 tends to scout:
Before competition: design scouting sheets for both pit and match, look at previous regionals for teams we'll face, and make sheets for computer that have all the numbers.
Thursday: pit scout. Go around to all teams and talk to them, finding out the basics. We also take pictures, including the team number. (Note: If you refuse someone on 330 a picture, you miss out on having your robot recognized. Instead, warn them that they may need to return later.)

Friday: Match scout. 6 team members sit in the stands with scouting sheets, evalutating all the robots multiple times. During breaks, the data is fed into a computer. Friday night, all the team gathers somewhere to evaluate the data. We have pit and match sheets and make a preliminary decision on who to pick if we are in the top 8. Throw in some strategy for the next day's matches and then pack it in.

Saturday morning: Scout all matches. Feed the pick list to the captain about 3 minutes before picking.
Saturday afternoon: use the data to plan how to win. Repeat as necessary.

[astephen68]

Thank you

[astephen68]

Does anybody have a scouting sheet that i can take a look at, so that i can make my own???

[Veryser127]

we run a wireless scouting server which we won an award at Waterloo for. Check out gpgearheads.org, and see gearhead crossing- Waterloo or ford first.
Go to the rank teams list for our ratings. We create some great scouting sheets which feed into our system, I do not have an example on hand but can say that we are interested in helping other teams implement the system for their regionals.

[astephen68]

Cool Do you think you can send me last years so I could take a look at it??

[Sean Marks]

Thank You. Much appreciated

[kramarczyk]

Originally Posted by Veryser127

we run a wireless scouting server which we won an award at Waterloo for. Check out gpgearheads.org, and see gearhead crossing- Waterloo or ford first.
Go to the rank teams list for our ratings. We create some great scouting sheets which feed into our system, I do not have an example on hand but can say that we are interested in helping other teams implement the system for their regionals.

http://www.gearheadcrossing.org

[astephen68]

In a few days I
ll have my scout database up on the site so anybody who wants to look at it can. Also does anybody have any pit scouting sheets I can look at??

[astephen68]

Here's my scouting Pit sheet:http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/1934

[Cyberguy34000]

These are the ones 662 will be using this year.

PM me if you have any questions or need any help with your scouting efforts.

[Danielle H]

Honestly, this is probably the worst way to go, but this is what I did for IRI. (Perhaps it worked for IRI because scouting wasn't as important as it is during regionals...) But I just took a laptop... opened up a word document... typed the team number, what the robot was specifically for (last year it would've been, shooting high, scoring low, defense...), what they did in autonomous if anything, how well it worked, and what they did well with a driver. Also, if they tipped easily or had anything else unique about them, I wrote that down.

I used the laptop because when I'm watching robots, my brain works a lot faster than my hand can write.... I can type a lot faster, and therefore can get more down.

Again, poorly organized and not very pretty... but it worked for me.

Maybe I'm just used to being disorganized...