Poor team scouting methods?

[MegaSparks]

Pit scouting has its place and can be useful if the right information is gathered about the team and the robot. The pit scouting is where the vital first impression is made. I agree robot performance on the field can't be gained with pit scouting but you can see how the robot works and how it was built.

We scout matches two different ways. We get the raw stats from each match on Friday and put this into excel. The speard sheet I set up weights the different types of scoring and the totals the points for the robot. I saw a spread sheet that incorporated averages into it and I will update my spread sheet to do the same as it was a real easy way to rank the robots.

The second way we rank the robots is a more objective look at the robot. 3 or 4 scouts watch the matches and determine a score on how effective the robot was at playing the game.

These two scores are combined as a multiplier and then the teams are ranked. We have been fairly good at getting the top teams ranked correctly. It is the teams that reside in places 16 - 24 that we have a hard time with, but the multiplier works to clear that up. I am hoping the averaging method will also help clear up those middle robot rankings.