New Global Scouting System

[singkiwi]

Over the past few days I have been developing a new type of scouting service, which will be different from what we have developed and implemented in the past. Right now it is in the early ideas and dev. stage, however I wanted to share what we are trying to do with it to get some interest going and hear everyone's opinions.

The main goal of the project is to be able to not only scrape data off of the FRC team database, but also use an email address to collect data submitted via email by other teams. The main idea is that we can take statistics emailed in from not only our team, but from other teams as well, and combine it all into a single online data sheet. (For example you could e-mail data, text it to the account, or any other way which best suits you). This data from the emails would be gathered and updated automatically, and placed online for everyone to see and review, allowing teams to spend less time gathering and sorting scouting data by having a large database of scouting data.

What does everyone think about this technique? Would you use it? What are some shortfalls with this system? What kind of capability would you like it to have?

Thanks,
Dan from First Robotics Team 2170