How do you scout?

[Dan Petrovic]

It is important that you get data you can rely on.

Make sure the scouts are well-trained, know what they are doing, and know what they are looking for.

If you don't like the idea of putting info into an excel spreadsheet, we made a spreadsheet on paper that covered all matches for every team and then organized them in a three-ring binder.

One of the things we look at is whether a team was defended by another team and what team that was. If a team scores well in all of their matches except one where they were defended, then that speaks a lot about the team that was defending.

Use data from the practice matches only to loosely determine strategy on Friday. Use Friday data for selecting partners and use Saturday to solidify those selections.