Scouting Software By Hamosad #1657

[Greg Needel]

The software looks great, is there a way to edit the inputs you can do for each team?


The issue that I have with the data collection (and this is by no means an attack on your work) is that all of the data is qualitative. Ranking a robot on "aggressiveness" and "Accuracy" opens the doors to errors. If you have 3 different people ranking these things you will get 3 different results.

For real engineering analysis in industry which can be applied to scouting you need QUANTITATIVE inputs. Things like "how many shots taken" "how many shots made" are better inputs because now if you want to judge accuracy you can numerically combine them and it will always be right regardless of who collects the data.

For example in the qualitative method you rank accuracy 1-10

so Jane gives team 2775 a "7" in match 1, a "4" in match 2, and a "5" in match 3. This would give team 2775 an average accuracy of 5.33


In the quantitative method

team 2775 makes 4 of 5 shots in match 1 2 of 4 shots in match 2 and 3 of 6 shots in match 3.

so they have an accuracy percentage of 65%

Over many matches you can see how recording quantitative data will give you a more accurate result, which you can then compare teams with since it removes the human factor from the data.