Yeah..
Part of the reason I did the APPA ID system is I asked all of the teams to fill out player information forms, with the intent of putting up a page about all the teams, for the 2002 College National Championships. I still have a pile of forms sitting on my floor to this day, none of which has ever made it into a useful format. Putting 300 players worth of information into the computer from paper forms is just never going to get to the top of my priority list, and it's not something we're going to pay somone $7/hour to do either (which ends up costing us $10-12/hour).
NCPA will be using the APPA ID system this year, and from that I can just generate all the pages I need automatically. Fortunately we don't have much in the way of eligiblity rules to enforce (either you're a student at your school or you ain't), but another thing the ID system does is prevent players from ever being on a roster in the first place - so if Millenium banned a player, the ID system would simply not let that player on a Millenium roster (or the roster of any other event that wanted to honor the ban).
Course, you still gotta be checking people on the fields, but then you have recourse and back-up documentation should you find someone on that field that shouldn't be there.
I still think the best part though is you never have to read anyone's handwriting again.
- Chris
