Poor team scouting methods?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by squirrel

We seem to have done ok with 6 students sitting in the stands recording points scored by each robot, as well as defensive maneuvers, bonus points, autonomous/hybrid score, penalties, and whatnot. Performance seems to be far more important than anything else...so just concentrate on recording performance of the teams, if you can make a relatively simple spreadsheet Friday night that ranks them and figure out kind of which teams you'll want to pick for your alliance (if you are a relatively good seed) that should be all you need from scouting.

Pit scouting is fun because you get to see the robots and talk to the nice people....but performance on the field might be more important in the end.

Ditto for 330 (and hopefully 1135 this year), except that the spreadsheet is set up long before Friday...it's just populated then. Saturday is also important; sometimes a team has a serious breakdown--or a "nirvana" moment.

Pit scouting is used to help figure out about the team and the robot's potential characteristics.