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Originally Posted by Nemo
On the topic of keeping data private versus sharing it with the world:
It's a huge waste of time for every team to dedicate 7+ people to compiling the same exact set of statistics. If a community effort produced the same thing with far less total effort, the teams with the most effective scouting systems could instead put that effort into creating more advanced statistics and improving their qualitative scouting and their methods of collecting and using that qualitative data. Those teams would still have a competitive advantage to show for their efforts.
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I don't know if I would trust data that's gathered by "the community" for more than cursory overviews of robots. Our scouters all know the value of the data they collect, and see that it's of a real benefit to our team in qual matches and in alliance selection. That means that if they collect the data, it's good data. If an amorphous group of kids from different teams was working on the same data, they likely wouldn't have the same motivation to "get it right." You might end up with missing matches, people over counting their own teams, or just general slacking off. Of course, I agree having only one group of 7 per regional scout would be a ton less work, but potentially at the cost of data quality.