CowScout Showcase: Data Entry / Scout Master

Competition Scouting
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nErAMiRl0

Hi all,
In this video we demonstrate CowScout’s electronic data entry and approval system. CowScout automatically assigns teams for users to scout. Scouting data is then presented to a lead scout, who checks it for errors and approves, edits, or deletes it.

For example, six users with iPads go to the data entry page and are assigned teams. When a user submits new data, they are assigned a new team to scout and the data is sent to the lead scout. The lead scout approves the data and it is added to the team’s collection of statistics.

Please, feel free to share any feedback you have.

See you at the competition!

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Looks awsome guys, I think this might be a real game changer.:slight_smile:

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1323 will def be rockin cowscout this year, its def imo the best scouting app out there!

-RC

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This is beautiful

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This software looks great and I can see it being very useful. I have spent some time looking into developing something similar but some key questions come up right away.

  1. How do you handle communication between Ipads and the database?
  2. How reliable is the connection?
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This program looks more in-depth than the program I use at work that maintains a warehouse and thousands of products.

Can’t wait to try it out!

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The scouting program is a web app. So you would need to have internet access to use the program.

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Is Cowscout something we can run on our own server?

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No, we are choosing to keep CowScout centralized.

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Yes we cant get wifi at one of our events so we arent going to be using cowscout. If we could have it to run on our own server we would use it.
But oh well:)

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looks great, 597 might just use cowscout.

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Found a small vuln in your system, sent you a PM.

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Team 3309 will be using this at LA and Central Valley

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I would like to use CowScout for 2338. Is there any way to use it without wireless internet?

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Considering CowScout, currently using Google Docs. Has anyone had negative experiences with Docs?

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do you need WIFI to use this great scouting tool

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Some sort of internet access is required to use CowScout. We plan on running a 2.4ghz wifi network (off of a 4G LTE modem), which won’t interfere with the field’s 5ghz network.

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I’ve used Docs for a few years now. You need internet access to use Docs just as you need internet for CowScout. You can also do more with your information in Docs.

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What are going to be the fields for scouting data this year?

I’m considering using CowScout. I like the features it has, but I need to make sure it has space for all the things we care about in each game.

EDIT: Is there a freeform text field for additional comments? We use a lot of qualitative properties when picking teams and constructing match strategies. Often there’s something that just doesn’t fit into the numerical fields.

For example there were some teams that didn’t drive straight enough in autonomous and so they’d crash into us. We’d have to plan it so we didn’t interfere with each other, and we’d know if that was an issue by looking at the comments on the scout sheets. It’s not enough just to know whether their auton scores or not, but how it scores.

Also I’m assuming that we can’t see data entered by other teams and vice versa. Is that correct?

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Is there a reason that cowscout can’t load the match results and rankings of from todays events? I was hoping to see what cowscout could do with this…