How do you scout Defense?

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Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19

The problem is that it depends on the team they are defending. Defending HoT is totally different than defending 397.

Defended this team #### to only scoring this many balls ## then compare that to the average number that that team scores? If it is significantly less then you know they are a good defender. If there was a robot problem on the offensive team it should be noted so that their already lower score for the match is considered.

I don't know that you would be able to quantify this to the degree they are looking for. Granted you can quantify it, whether or not you would get a good out put for a statistical analysis on defensive robots is another question.

You could look at a robots power output and the strength of their push and shove and what their speed can do in terms of how many blocks and blocked points they can output in a match. In terms of creating good defensive output in an analysis, I know you are only looking for quantitative, but in terms of qualitative you could do, can a robot block 2 robots or 1 robot. A yes would be 2 robots with a 1 value and a no would be a 0 value in your data. Back to talking in terms of qualitative you could look at whether the robot can score from the defensive zone, if so how many points a match.

Just a few ideas for you, as you can tell analysis and databases are my thing. My final project for a class is creating a monster scouting database. The professor is going to think I am nuts but that's fine by me, everyone calls me the crazy blonde anyway. I hope this helps, and was just my two cents.