This is one of the quintessential questions we asked ourselves when starting down this path. There are some great apps out there, and sure, their end-goal is to be the end-all be-all of stat entry, but we live in a world that has loads of choices and opportunity. People like one app better than the other; the idiosyncracies, the feel of the app, we think more people will still use a scorecard for the foreseeable future.
So with all these options to enter the data, how do you know who is telling the truth? What if you're playing a game where one team is using ScorePAD, one team is using a paper scorecard, and a fan in the stands is using GameChanger? Clearly they aren't going to all have the exact same thing at the end. Sure, in a perfect world and professional level they may, but we're talking amateur sports. They'd need to compare and contrast afterwards to be certain - but that's not likely to happen.
However, with StatFame, the folks using the real-time data would upload to their servers of choice, and we'd then be able to use our XML API to transfer the data from there to our servers for the card validation, and deeper sabermetric analysis. Furthermore on the validation, we'd compare how each scorekeeper of record scored the game, and if both sides check out, it's validated, but if we see discrepancies on how one person saw it, we flag and send email alerts to both scorekeepers plotting out what's different between the games to get a final answer to "Who's on First", so to speak...
Does anyone really care if the stats are valid? Well, yes, it IS amateur sports, but if you're reading this, you're interested in statistics, and most likely you're NOT a professional sports team, but who says you can't be validated like one? Especially for free? "Crappy statistics nicely formatted are still crappy statistics." The end goal of our platform is to try to give a recruiter a better look at a players abilities. Anyone can send a one-sided, parent made video of their skillset, but likely it's a bit jaded. They may have scored every game, every at-bat, and every pitch throughout a career, but a recruiter has few resources to prove or disprove that stat, until now.