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Re: A New Way to Scout

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Originally Posted by brennonbrimhall View Post
Regarding publishing data giving away a well-deserved competitive advantage, I have a unique perspective. 20 collaboratively scouted all three of our events, and IRI. Giving data away doesn't magically make teams better -- the analysis of data does, as well as the understanding of what the numbers mean.

That being said, I recognize the predicament. Perhaps teams should consider publishing data after the event on a unified server, in a common format. Thoughts?
I also think this would be great. It would be fun to play around with even if teams waited till after the season.

As for a format, one year we had a scouting program that stored everything in text files in the form:
<match#> <team#> <property name> <value>

So you'd get lines that said something like:
Code:
15 2471 climb 10