SPOT (Scouting Platforms on Time) is an open-source, modular scouting app platform upon which a team can deploy a scouting app with little to no prior experience. SPOT is designed to be a long-term solution for scouting: easily configurable between years, simple to maintain, and new features added each year.

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SPOT is designed for a wide range of teams with a wide range of expertise and requirements:

• A team that is new to scouting and isn’t sure what information to gather or how to analyze their data. SPOT is a preconfigured app that can be deployed with minimal setup and will provide all the basic functionality most teams need.

• A team that has some experience with scouting and wants to collect specific data that may not be part of the default configuration but doesn’t have significant programming experience. SPOT can be configured by modifying configuration files rather than by writing code.

• A team that has experience with scouting and wants to perform custom analysis operations or advanced custom scouting interfaces and has some programming experience. SPOT can utilize user-provided analysis modules to extend its functionality beyond the default configuration without requiring teams to modify the base code.

• A team that has significant experience with scouting and significant programming expertise. SPOT is open source, documented, and designed to be extensible such that teams can start from this code base and build their own custom scouting system.

 

Key Features:

• An easy-to-use platform for data entry throughout matches.

• Works on all platforms, from iOS to Android to the web.

• An analysis page to display detailed statistics and charts about matches and teams.

• Admin view for live scouter management at competition.

• Preconfigured for the 2025 REEFSCAPE game with no additional game-specific customization required.

• Easy deployment experience when teams run a server on Glitch.

• Optimized for teams who have internet access while scouting but also completely functional for teams with no internet access.

• Quick setup with a built-in first-run wizard to walk teams through configuring their scouting app, connecting to The Blue Alliance or FRC API, and setting up their database.

• Completely configurable analysis and scouting view without the need for a single line of code.

 

We plan to refine the match scouting interface and team/match analysis visualizations based on internal testing and feedback from other teams throughout the season. As always, you can fork SPOT and adapt the config files to suit the needs of your team. There is a quick start guide and a set of video tutorials to get you up and running quickly whether for deployment for an event or to evaluate locally. There is also a scouter training slide deck for instructions on this year’s match scouting view. 

Below are a few screenshots.

If you have further questions or would like to request new additions to SPOT, feel free to ask here or email us at spot@team3061.org!