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Originally Posted by antimatter_john
I like your idea and I think it would work but I don't see the reason to keep the data private during the competition season. There is no hurt that I know of from the data being public. Also that would help the rookie teams or teams that don't have a proper scouting team in place to collect data. Also what is the point of the data after the season, it is more like a incentive that isn't really an incentive to the teams that aren't part of this but want the data or need the data. I don't know. Just seems improper that you aren't releasing the data to the public and keeping it private until the season is over.
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The reason I would make the data private during the season is because having data is currently a major competitive factor. Until we reach a point where there's some third party scout that makes all data public, data collection will be a huge playing card at any event.
To clarify, "private" as I used it meant accessible to all teams who contributed to the dataset.
There will be some point at which scouting data and stats will become widespread, and at that point, the challenge will change primarily to using the data effectively. (think stock market - there's a lot of data, and lots of opinions).