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Originally Posted by khanh111
I agree that it can be a waste to have 7+ people constantly looking for the same set of statistics. However, some larger teams use that as a way to help teach newer members about scouting/strategy. Every experience helps a younger member.
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It's a challenging task that students can learn from, true. But it's still duplicating the same work dozens of times at each event, and that carries an opportunity cost. Think of all of those hours of work put to use in other ways. I think the product on the field would improve.
I think we'll eventually have a system that makes stats from every event freely available, much like results and standings are available from FRC Spyder / TheBlueAlliance / usfirst.org / etc. When that happens, we'll still see people developing their own scouting systems to gather, aggregate, analyze, and report on additional types of scouting data.