[brennonbrimhall]

I foresee issues where teams don't agree on specific criteria to track. For example, as the only team that consistently used ground pickup at the Connecticut Regional, it made no sense for us to actively track teams who were picking up Frisbees off of the field. Constraining teams to a predetermined set of actions to track would be a major turn off to a lot of teams.

It would be far more feasible to have an effort where one or more teams at an event decide to publish their data in a common interchange format, to a common server. Teams could hash out collaborative details at events.

I see crowdscouting/teams publishing their scouting information as a potential solution to the downfalls of OPR for events that I can't attend, not a substitute for scouting well at your event. There isn't a replacement for solid data and being able to understand the picture those data are telling you.

I've been working on a scouting system that is based on node.js, which is awesomely cross-platform and renders as a webpage. With a few modifications, it could be a platform whereby teams can post their data to it -- like Blue Alliance, but with a much higher granularity.