10-02-2012 10:04

DavidGitz

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

This looks pretty great guys! I had a few questions.
1. What is "Shot Location"? I see on your ScoutingSheet you have a picture of the fields with numbers 1-6, is that what that is for?
2. On the ScoutingSheet you have the red team on the left and blue on the right, and your picture of the field below it has the blue on the left and the red on the right? Is there a reason for that?
[EDIT] Nevermind, I see that on the ScoutingSheet you have the orange fields marked as Hybrid and the blue-green fields marked as Teleop. That clears that up, just the Data Entry Sheet should reflect that as well. Thanks again.[/EDIT]

I'm pretty impressed with all the automation behind this, how come you didn't make the Scouting Sheets automatically generated as well?

I'm going to try this out over the next couple days, hopefully we can use this as our scouting system is a little dated.

12-02-2012 19:54

Warren Boudreau

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidGitz This looks pretty great guys! I had a few questions. 1. What is "Shot Location"? I see on your ScoutingSheet you have a picture of the fields with numbers 1-6, is that what that is for? 2. On the ScoutingSheet you have the red team on the left and blue on the right, and your picture of the field below it has the blue on the left and the red on the right? Is there a reason for that? [EDIT] Nevermind, I see that on the ScoutingSheet you have the orange fields marked as Hybrid and the blue-green fields marked as Teleop. That clears that up, just the Data Entry Sheet should reflect that as well. Thanks again.[/EDIT] I'm pretty impressed with all the automation behind this, how come you didn't make the Scouting Sheets automatically generated as well? I'm going to try this out over the next couple days, hopefully we can use this as our scouting system is a little dated.

17-02-2012 09:59

TNT280Staff

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

There is a problem with the MSPublisher version, I can't seem to download it, please advise.

17-02-2012 10:19

Warren Boudreau

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

PM me with your email address and I will send tou the file directly.

I will also post a PDF version for those that do not have Publisher.

I should have thought of that earlier. Doh.....

07-03-2012 23:30

Nathan Pell

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

Hey Warren,

Thanks so much for putting this out there. 1875 is going to bring a laptop and printer this year as well. Any teams are welcome to join with us if they like.

Just wondering if you could add a column for 'time needed to balance'; Also I am a little confused as to what goes in the two boxes under "shots attempted" and the other items in Teleoperator. I am guessing one of the boxes is the location and the other the number of shots perhaps?

Thanks!
nathan

11-03-2012 20:23

Warren Boudreau

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

I guess I forgot to explain the wide boxes on the scouting sheets.

That is for scouters to make tic (or tally) marks for each shot made. After the match, they just add them up and put the number in the box next to it.

It's easier than tracking all those numbers in your head during the match.

12-04-2012 00:20

Shelbers2486

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

My team, 2486 The CocoNuts, used your scouting system at two regionals this year, and at both regionals the scouting came in handy, since we made it to elimination matches at both. Our scouting team really liked your system, and we will be using it again in St. Louis. Thanks for putting this out there!

12-04-2012 10:17

Warren Boudreau

Re: paper: SPAM 2012 "Poor Man's Scouting System"

Thanks for the feedback.

I have a Mark III version in beta test right now.

I added some columns for tracking robot drive configuration (wide/long & number of wheels) and made some minor changes to make sorting by team number work a little better.

If you are interested in trying it out, send me a PM and I will see about sending you the updated version.

And if anyone can tell me how I can download the list of team numbers for an event into an Excel spreadsheet without hand modifications, I would be eternally grateful.