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Re: 2014 Lessons Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
It would be far preferable to put it in the Match Results Page instead of the Team Standings Page, so we could have the info for each match rather than just the totals.

Or better yet, provide an API to the data instead of a web page that has to be scraped.

The assertions in that linked post are just sad. FIRST really is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to properly exposing data and making it available in a timely manner.

In my opinion, TBA should be adopted as the official online scoring system. It already has an API, so simply getting the right data into TBA accurately and quickly will solve the problem since TBA has the rest of the infrastructure already.

Another thing that would be great is official client libraries for teams to build into their scouting systems (Probably Ruby, Python, iOS, Android would cover what most teams are using).
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