Thank you for continuing to release this year after year. It’s a great resource for teams that are getting started with scouting(or have been doing it for years). Using this system is how Spectrum got started and I highly recommend it to any team that wants to start scouting.
Sorry for a rookie question, In the past my team has only used paper scouting sheets due to the simplicity of it. However, I really like all the analytics that come along with using a spreadsheet. With poor service at events, how do you sync the data between the multiple scouters/drive coach reliably?
With poor service at events, how do you sync the data between the multiple scouters/drive coach reliably?
Cell service does make things easy. We have an USB LTE modem that we prefer to use, but at some events service is spotty. Excel and Sheets can both run offline, so data entry will work just fine. When you don’t have internet, getting the match strategy sheets to the drive team requires creativity. We’ve found two pretty reliable methods for getting the information to the people who need it…
First is using sneakernet. You could keep a portable printer in the stands. You already want power for a laptop, powering a printer is no harder. The coach can stop by the stands to pick up the printed sheet for the upcoming match, or you can have a runner take the printed sheet to them.
The second uses MMS. The data entry person can run a match report, take a picture of the screen, and send it to the drive coach. We’ve found MMS messages to be reliable even when there is poor cellular data service.
Good Luck to the team participating in Week 1 events. If you are using the Poor Man’s scouting system, please let us know how it worked and if you found any bugs (gasp!) in the programs.
If you would be willing to share your scouting data with us , we would appreciate it. We can use it to tune the effective score coefficients. Just PM me or George Wallace.
Sorry to revive this thread, but I felt it probably more appropriate to ask here than start a new thread.
I’ve been investigating scouting solutions lately and am absolutely loving the system developed and shared here by SPAM. In playing around with it though, there is one thing I’m looking for some help with…
In the instructions (very clear and easy to follow BTW!), it mentions that you can go to firstinspires to copy/paste the team list and match schedule for an event. Definitely a great option to have as while the team list is only usually about 40 fields to enter manually per event, the match schedules are over 500 fields to fill out (7 fields a match and estimating 72 matches per event).
When I go to an event page on firstinspires, I can’t seem to find a way to copy and paste either the team list or match schedule directly into excel. Is there something I’m completely missing here? Has firstinspires updated their formatting since this was posted, no longer allowing this?
Long question short I guess, can someone guide me on how to get an excel compatible list/spreadsheet of an events match schedule?
. Sure enough though, just tried it again now and it worked perfectly.