Scouting & StrategyModule 7 of 8

Advanced Techniques & Case Studies

Deep dives into the techniques top scouting programs actually use, anchored in real systems and seasons. You will study Team 1678 Citrus Circuits' multi-app pipeline, learn predictive match modeling and how Statbotics estimates win probability, design custom game-specific metrics that out-resolve generic OPR/EPA, build a data-driven defense-evaluation framework (the thing OPR cannot see), and engineer a full automated analysis pipeline that joins your scouting with public APIs. Every lesson ties an advanced concept to a concrete, reproducible practice.

Advanced Techniques & Case Studies closes the Scouting & Strategy guide as module 7 of 8, after Common Mistakes & Troubleshooting. At ~245 minutes across 5 lessons it is the longest module in the guide, which runs about 21 hours end to end.

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01Case Study: Team 1678 Citrus Circuits' Scouting PipelineDissect the multi-app, QR-based, super-scout-driven system that one of FRC's most respected scouting programs publishes openly each year.45 min read

02Predictive Match Modeling and Win ProbabilityMove from describing teams to predicting matches: build score and win-probability estimates from EPA components and validate them against results.50 min read

03Designing Custom Game-Specific MetricsGeneric OPR/EPA cannot answer game-specific questions; learn to design metrics that capture what actually wins a given season.50 min read

04A Data-Driven Defense Evaluation FrameworkDefense is the highest-value thing public analytics cannot measure; build a scouting framework that quantifies it for picklists and match plans.45 min read

05Engineering an Automated Analysis PipelineTie everything together into a reproducible, mostly-automated pipeline that joins your scouting with TBA and Statbotics and outputs picklist-ready rankings.55 min read

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