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Originally Posted by GeorgeM
Wow! It's always interesting to see how other people go about scouting. They range from a very minimal excel document on one computer to scouting on a tablet.
Would you train each team on using the system?
Another problem that I see is that each team collects different data and analyzes it differently. Personally, if I were to use this system, I don't think it would give me the flexibility to pull up certain statistics, compared to if we were to use a system written by ourselves.
A note about the system - what if someone hits the "Never Moved" button by accident? Or any of those subsequent ones? Is there any way to make that input Null?
Perhaps to make this a success you could provide the data as a CSV on a Google Spreadsheet and then teams could manipulate it as they please.
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Great input, thanks! Our intent would be to train teams beforehand. We have worked with a number of other teams so far and we held remote webinars prior to the events. We are arriving Wed afternoon and will be handling the logistics and any follow-up questions. At that point we would let them lose scouting the practice rounds Thursday morning. We would plan a get together for Q & A prior to starting the matches.
As with any scouting system the human element is prone to errors. We try to minimize these by good training and lots of user feedback. Additionally, the notes field is one method to provide information from the scouter to the data analysts to fix typos and erroneous data entry. So far it has proven extremely effective.
We actually have a multi-year roadmap introducing considerably more functionality each year. I'm more than happy to share this with anyone interested. We have outstanding programming resources and have some really exciting stuff on the near horizon. We may even have a few significant enhancements done in the next week or so.
As it pertains to the open data access,we actually looked at the google docs but in the spirit of maintaining the real time nature it wasn't intuitively obvious how to connect the google doc to a live SQL data source. If anyone knows how to do this with some guidance I'd gladly set that up.