[artdutra04]

I've toyed with the idea before of writing an AJAX-based web application for scouting for competitions. There, I'd have it use a dedicated tower to host an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL plugged into an intranet Wifi router, accessible through by going to that IP address and logging in.

Then anyone on the team with a mobile device with Wifi networking (like iPhone or iPod Touch) could just log in, and all simultaneously keep updating the databases with new information. And since it's all stored in databases, it would be really easy just to write a script to run a lot of statistical calculations on this data, and generate all kinds of advanced ranking algorithms...

And by going with the web application route, it would also be device and platform independent.