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Originally Posted by Connerd

Thanks Jim Wilks. I didn't catch that. I'll make sure to tell my team that, so we don't do anything stupid. We might just have to compile it online and offsite.

We have been considering this issue as well. Our team does not universally have smartphones or tablets...but in a one-to-one school they all have chromebooks. Is there any reason why we could not create a six-user WIRED network with a laptop as the "server" and write some html scouting form to use in an intra-net type setup?

And to the "data-sharing" issue...I definitely believe you should have to contribute to benefit. From my perspective, this benefits the rookie teams or smaller teams much more. Consider, if there was no investment required to obtain this data, the teams with the best scouting programs could hold all their own scouters for their own data, yet still get the larger group data. A smaller or less experienced team might not be able to generate good data themselves. On the other hand, if you need to contribute to the effort to gain access to the data the former team WILL participate because they won't want to risk missing something that everyone else will have access to. Their benefit will still be considerably less than the latter team, since the data they would have without cooperation would already be pretty good.