Slowly, but surely, I'm starting to get things knocked off this list. I just wanted to come here to let y'all know about a few changes we'll be making to the pick 'em starting this year.
Pick 'em changes
The last few years we've had a pick 'em but it only included UIL schools, and only during the playoffs.
Starting this year, though, we're going to be including all schools and running this thing from week 1 all the way through the playoffs.
That said, when I was coding this thing and trying to dial in exactly how it should work, I decided that having 100+ games during some weeks for members to pick from was a bit crazy, even for me. So, what we're going to do is let The Toy decide on 30-40-50 (I'm not sure how many just yet honestly) games and use those games for the weekly pick 'em. The games will be decided by the teams playing in those games, and those team's overall rankings. We'll take the "top" games from each week after the rankings are ran.
Team overview page changes
As some of you might have seen on the home page announcement, or even just browsing team pages, I've made a few changes to the team overview pages. The main thing I'd like for folks to notice is that there is now an "Edit" link just below every team's overview page. Clicking that link will bring up a form that you can fill out to submit changes to those team pages. Right now they only contain basic information such as the team's location, county, the year the school was established, the first year the team ever played six-man football, etc. However, I do plan on adding more and more information as time goes on and we start to get a larger percentage of the base data filled out.
Eventually we'll add things like coaching history (coming soon actually), notable players, and information about the team's field. I didn't want to add too much, too soon, though, just so we can focus on getting a little bit here and there done.
So that's it for today. I'll keep hammering away and getting things ready to go for next season!
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