Introducing: CowScout

It seems interesting! I like the graphs it shows. Also, does it rely on member input, or input from an external source, such as a moderator? Besides that, it's looking good! I can't wait until it comes out!

[robodude03]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

It seems interesting! I like the graphs it shows. Also, does it rely on member input, or input from an external source, such as a moderator? Besides that, it's looking good! I can't wait until it comes out!

It doesn't solely rely on member input. CowScout has a built in scraper that pulls match data from FIRST. At the moment it calculates OPR data and I am sure other features will be added in the future.

[connor.worley]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

It seems interesting! I like the graphs it shows. Also, does it rely on member input, or input from an external source, such as a moderator? Besides that, it's looking good! I can't wait until it comes out!

A mentor can create a team and scouts can create accounts and request to join the team. Once they're in a team they can start entering stats. The data sits in a "temporary" section of the database where a lead scout for the team can approve or delete it as well as make on-the-fly corrections.

[Jeremy Germita]

Really cool, guys!

[sammyjalex]

Holy Cows,

This idea sounds really interesting. I love the courage that teams, namely you and the poofs, are displaying to make scouting a full-fledged part of how we collaborate in FRC. I'm really excited to see the early details in the beta.

This program reminds me of an idea that I considered implementing on my team in order to save resources, make scouting more accessible to those that like to or need encouragement to begin dialogue with students from other teams as well as more accessible to the collaborative goals of FIRST, and to begin to fight poor scouting.

Let me know if this has similar qualities:

The team would eliminate the common waste of paper through scouting by only using six laminated sheets and recording both specific objective notes and notes regarding its role with those teams with which it plays both offensively and defensively. After each match, perhaps there would be an extra set of sheets to allow time, this collected information, objective, subjective and relative, would be recorded onto a cloud template on only a single laptop that the team could choose to share with other teams easily following the shared dialogue of the two teams regarding scouting etc. That other team could then input their own information into this document. Ideally, this one document could contain information from almost all teams at the event, allow them to understand their role in the game from the perspective of others and, of course, develop meaningful social relationships between teams more widely than the teams' drive teams or that which is limited to a team social.

When I read about CowScout, this is what first came to my mind-a structural opportunity to share scouting information, a means to limit paper and expensive technology per team and a great way to improve networking, social opportunities for students and as a result the overall quality of scouting.

Best,
Sam

YAY! Beta testing!

[connor.worley]

CowScout is set to be released on January 2nd, 2012. Hope to see you all using it soon!

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by connor.worley

CowScout is set to be released on January 2nd, 2012. Hope to see you all using it soon!

And it's now live at www.cowscout.com!

EDIT: And it seems to not be working anymore...

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Hallry

And it's now live at www.cowscout.com!

EDIT: And it seems to not be working anymore...

Still not working? Or is this already outdated. I was able to register and add my team fine, as well as see team lists pulled from events.

[stundt1]

It would be nice to be able to play around with the actual scouting part of cowscout. It says this regional isnt available to scout.

Can we make it available?

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by stevend1994

Still not working? Or is this already outdated. I was able to register and add my team fine, as well as see team lists pulled from events.

As was I, but now it just goes back to the 'Coming Jan. 2' page

EDIT: It's working for me now here: http://team1538.com/cowscout_beta/index.php

EDIT 2: It's now working here: cowscout.com, the site above no longer works!

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Hallry

As was I, but now it just goes back to the 'Coming Jan. 2' page

EDIT: It's working for me now here: http://team1538.com/cowscout_beta/index.php

Weird. What browser/OS are you running? That could be linked. I'm on XP and Chrome.

Great site! I saw it said "Match schedule" in the regional area, and got excited thinking your website could tell the future. Oh well. Great site anyways! Can't wait to use it!

Your move, CheesyScout!

[thefro526]

Hallry, I used the link you posted registered, etc and it's working fine for me.

Thus far, it seems that CowScout is what we'll be using this year, I set our team up in about 5 minutes while doing a bunch of other stuff - it's so intuitive.

[Nick Lawrence]

CowScout is best scout.

Well done 1538. Seeing this evolve through the beta program was really really cool. Glad to see it finally came to public fruition.

-Nick