New Global Scouting System

[Q. Sheets]

Originally Posted by singkiwi

4. People submit information by sending an email / TEXT (That's the driving idea behind this: most people are able to quickly text in data. No internet or computer or fussy sheets needed!).

By "TEXT," do you mean SMS messages?! If so, how do you plan on setting up such a system? Hopefully, you won't be spending real money on this before it's being used.

[singkiwi]

Originally Posted by Q. Sheets

By "TEXT," do you mean SMS messages?! If so, how do you plan on setting up such a system? Hopefully, you won't be spending real money on this before it's being used.

Yes, I do mean SMS Messages . Something not commonly known is that you can send text messages to email accounts for no additional charge, it just counts toward your text message count for the month (so if you have an unlimited text message plan any number you send / receive is free). And no, I'm not using money to make this possible. I am using an offline script I wrote to do all of the work, and am using a Gmail account to send / receive the messages.

[~Cory~]

May I suggest providing a base system that handles all of scouting for a team. If you are willing to make the system simple, fast, and accurate (Really high quality, enough for a team to want to pay money for it) that doesnt depend on other teams input, you can get somewhere. By default, include an option to send all collected data anonymously (some teams put very "personal comments" in their scouting reports... its not nice to find them on the ground ) to a centralized collection point. Teams who would want to utilize the global data could view the submitted sets on their own (but unlike as you said, make it so that the data is NOT combined all at once, instead make it so bias can be viewed easily and assessed).

1. Make a product that everyone wants (teams will be willing to help).
2. Submit that data collected (anonymously)
3. Allow teams to re download the data in a set-chunk form. Either info can be viewed by collection or by team, or by both