Sneak Peek: CowScout Picklist Manager

Competition Scouting
1

The picklist manager is one of my favorite CowScout features. It allows inexperienced teams to create picklists by answering simple “Would you rather play with Team A or Team B?” questions.

FAQ
Do I have to compare a team against every other team in my picklist?
No, CowScout does two things to reduce the number of choices required:

  1. CowScout will automatically make a choice for you if there’s a great enough difference in OPR between two teams
  2. The picklist manager uses a binary tree so (in a perfect world) each choice about a team will halve the number of possible questions left

Hope you’re all excited about CowScout!

2

Wow, looks like I won’t need to lift a finger to write any scouting software this year. CowScout sounds awesome.

I assume once CowScout generates a list, you can rearrange it by hand? We generally make several subjective changes on Saturday.

3

Awesome.

Can’t wait to use CowScout!

4

I’m really excited for this. I think with the help of CowScout, our team might finally see an overhaul of our scouting process. Can’t wait to get my hands on it and play around.

5

Gosh, CowScout looks awesome. So excited for this.

6

Thanks for the feedback, and yes, you can manually arrange picklists after you finish generating them.

7

You could work on a way of merging two picklists to find the most compatible compromise, that way at alliance selection 2 teams could pick their third together…

Though the file exchange time would only lend itself to the first few seeds I suppose