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Here's The Plan, Man
It's coming down to the time of year when I'm getting asked quite a bit "when do the rankings come out". Just like Granger did, at least a few years before I took over, the goal is always to have them out by the first week of August. That hasn't changed so I'm looking at having them finalized late next week, through the weekend, or early the week after (two weeks from today). So, be on the lookout for that!
Also, we'll still be doing our fan polls again this year. We'll open those up for week one picks shortly after the rankings come out. Nothing will change for this. Just list your top 10 in order each week so we can see how the masses feel about each division leading up to game day(s)!
Finally, one of the most requested features, we'll be doing a weekly six-man pick'em during the entire season. We'll let The Toy determine, each week, what the top 40 games are (public and private schools included), and we'll pick from those. Compete against one another and against The Toy for bragging rights. Just like with the fan polls, we'll go ahead and open up week one shortly after the rankings come out.
Also, we'll still be doing our fan polls again this year. We'll open those up for week one picks shortly after the rankings come out. Nothing will change for this. Just list your top 10 in order each week so we can see how the masses feel about each division leading up to game day(s)!
Finally, one of the most requested features, we'll be doing a weekly six-man pick'em during the entire season. We'll let The Toy determine, each week, what the top 40 games are (public and private schools included), and we'll pick from those. Compete against one another and against The Toy for bragging rights. Just like with the fan polls, we'll go ahead and open up week one shortly after the rankings come out.
Site Updated
It's been coming for a while but I finally got around to upgrading the site's server/software today. You can check out a list of a few of the non-football related features that were added with this update, here.
I'm mostly finished with the updates so if you notice anything with the site that appears to be broken, please let me know. Obviously it's much easier to find broken things when there are more eyes on it than just mine and I'm almost certainly to have missed something.
Now let's get on with the football season! We're almost there y'all!
I'm mostly finished with the updates so if you notice anything with the site that appears to be broken, please let me know. Obviously it's much easier to find broken things when there are more eyes on it than just mine and I'm almost certainly to have missed something.
Now let's get on with the football season! We're almost there y'all!
Backfilling Game Data
I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that I'm trying to automatically backfill some game data and get some thoughts on whether my thinking is correct.
For more information about what's being automatically entered, click here.
For more information about what's being automatically entered, click here.
Editing Team Info
To make it easier for members to submit changes to the team pages I've now added an "Edit" link to the bottom of all team overview pages. Clicking that link will bring up a form that any member can fill out with information about each school.
Please note that changes will not be immediate as they will need further approval before they're made public.
Please note that changes will not be immediate as they will need further approval before they're made public.
A Few Changes
Ok, so I've been super busy lately working on re-writing some of the code for the site, re-working the databases, and planning out things to come. Today I do have a bit to share with y'all.
The first thing is I've made a change to the team listing page. You can now use filters, to filter out teams by status (active or inactive) and division. This isn't a ground-breaking improvement, but I thought it was a fun walk down memory lane being able to list only the inactive teams.
Another thing I'm doing during all of this is I'm completely changing the way the team overview pages are built. I had something in mind before and that has drastically changed recently because some of the data was turning out to be way too time consuming to track down right now.
So part of the rebuilding of these pages is to just use the data that I already have, and bring it into those team pages. So now team overview pages will automatically list all of each team's state championship appearances, along with the score of those games. It's worth noting that no private school state championship games were designated anywhere on the site so I'll have to do my best to go back and fix all of those games. If you know of any private school teams that have won a state championship, please let me know and I'll get those games designated.
Also new on these overview pages is one of the most requested features, which is a "biggest rivals" section. Now every team's overview page will display the top 6 teams that each team has played against the most, along with their record against that team. Clicking on the rival's team name will take you to their overview page. Clicking on the record will take you to a listing of all those team's games against each other.
Speaking of listing of games, there is also a new games listing page in the works, which is where those rivalry games are listed. Now, it doesn't work 100% just yet, but you'll notice that there is a filter option on that page. The listing page will show no results unless you enter a team in the filter. Doing so will show you a list of every game that team has played. You can also enter an opponent into the filter and it will show you all the games that those two teams have played against each other.
Don't worry, I'm not done here. I plan to add several more filter options to the games page to make it easy for anyone to find pretty much any game, or list of games, that they're looking for. The only reason this page is even accessible at all right now is because of the rivalry game listing so I figured since it was there, I'd give it a mention.
The first thing is I've made a change to the team listing page. You can now use filters, to filter out teams by status (active or inactive) and division. This isn't a ground-breaking improvement, but I thought it was a fun walk down memory lane being able to list only the inactive teams.
Another thing I'm doing during all of this is I'm completely changing the way the team overview pages are built. I had something in mind before and that has drastically changed recently because some of the data was turning out to be way too time consuming to track down right now.
So part of the rebuilding of these pages is to just use the data that I already have, and bring it into those team pages. So now team overview pages will automatically list all of each team's state championship appearances, along with the score of those games. It's worth noting that no private school state championship games were designated anywhere on the site so I'll have to do my best to go back and fix all of those games. If you know of any private school teams that have won a state championship, please let me know and I'll get those games designated.
Also new on these overview pages is one of the most requested features, which is a "biggest rivals" section. Now every team's overview page will display the top 6 teams that each team has played against the most, along with their record against that team. Clicking on the rival's team name will take you to their overview page. Clicking on the record will take you to a listing of all those team's games against each other.
Speaking of listing of games, there is also a new games listing page in the works, which is where those rivalry games are listed. Now, it doesn't work 100% just yet, but you'll notice that there is a filter option on that page. The listing page will show no results unless you enter a team in the filter. Doing so will show you a list of every game that team has played. You can also enter an opponent into the filter and it will show you all the games that those two teams have played against each other.
Don't worry, I'm not done here. I plan to add several more filter options to the games page to make it easy for anyone to find pretty much any game, or list of games, that they're looking for. The only reason this page is even accessible at all right now is because of the rivalry game listing so I figured since it was there, I'd give it a mention.
A Quick Update...
Just wanted to post a quick update since I haven't posted one in a while. Rest assured, I'm still hammering away on the updates I have planned for this off-season, which were mentioned in my future updates thread.
That said, I also decided this off-season to do a very much needed complete re-write on the entire site backend and database. This means a LOT more time spent coding, but also a lot of time saved on future updates.
So, it'll be relatively quiet around here, as far as updates and announcements go, at least for a while, but hopefully there will be a lot more features and updates to show off once it's time to kick off the next football season.
That said, I also decided this off-season to do a very much needed complete re-write on the entire site backend and database. This means a LOT more time spent coding, but also a lot of time saved on future updates.
So, it'll be relatively quiet around here, as far as updates and announcements go, at least for a while, but hopefully there will be a lot more features and updates to show off once it's time to kick off the next football season.
