paper: Team 33 Scouting Sheet

[Zach O]

Originally Posted by IKE

You are correct on the qualitative issues of multiple scouts. We have about 10 students that rotate through the scouting position, and 2 head scouts that do the sorting.

We have our whole team (about 30 people) cycle though 6 scouts every 16 matches (each student ends up with a few scouting times a piece), and then there is myself, who cooridnates scouting (gets sheets out, collects sheets, inputs data, watches a few matches, ect.) and one other with me who also helps enter data and other misc. tasks I need help with. In addition, we have 6 people who watch matches (5 mentors, and myself, not always taking notes full time) taking notes on pre-selected teams (selected based off of high scouting data, or teams that would compliment us). We then bring back our laptop with the data, the notes people took, and the guy who records all the matches (so we can reference them during the meeting, but record them to post on TBA/YouTube), and we talk about possible picks. We say a team number, we compare notes, and we rank them. The next day, we keep watching and before alliance selection after our last match have a quick meeting to finalize our list.

Originally Posted by IKE

This system has worked very well this year. At the districts were were spot on for who would be playing in elims. The order was frequently different, but the teams playing were not. At MSC, we went 23/24 out of 65 teams playing in Elims. The team not on our list fell over twice in the two matches that their alliance was defeated in. In Archimedes, we were 20/24. There were a couple of surprises in the top 8, and a couple of picks I just didn't (and still don't) understand.

That's awesome! I've yet to get as close as 23/24, but we have gotten around ~19ish.

Originally Posted by IKE

The picklist that we spent 2-3 hours making Friday night...

Oh good, so were not the only one with long scouting meetings! Ours usually take about 1-2 hours, depending on how in-depth we go with each team and the discrepancies with teams we scouted, and where to rank them.