Redesigning Records Feature
February 19th, 2006
The “core” of the MFLHistory application is going to be undergoing an overhaul. The single most visible result of this overhaul is going to be a pretty major shift in the method you use to add new records to your particular site.
In the current version:
- The record categories are very specific (season scores, career points, etc)
- The number of available records is completely fixed (you have three options for point milestones, for example)
- You can customize the record title, number of records displayed, sort order, and (for some records) a minimum qualification criteria
The vision for the NEW version:
- A “record designer” will be added, allowing you to choose specific criteria for a record and “save” it to your site’s configuration
- Criteria available will include choosing which seasons, weeks, and player positions (for individual records) to include
- This will allow you to create a virtually unlimited number of record combinations
- For leagues that want to separate early league season records from more recent seasons, you’ll be able to do just that — you could have both Most Points in a Game, 1997-2000 and Most Points in a Game, 2001-present records, for instance
- For individual records, this will allow you to combine positions that changed in the MFL setup (e.g., combining current DEF and previous TM positions into one Defensive Team category, or creating a top 5 scores, RB, WR, TE record)
- Of course, you’ll still be able to customize the display order, number to show, and title like you can today
- This designer functionality will be the engine that powers season and career individual player records, so you won’t see any movement on that prior to this feature
I can’t tell you the timeline on these changes (although to keep the pressure on myself, I’ll mention that NCAA BB Tourney time would be a good target), since as of right now they exist in my head and as notes on a pad of paper. There WILL be a testing period before this functionality obsoletes the current setup, and I’ll probably be looking for a few of you to help put it through some testing.
As always, if you have comments or suggestions around this conceptualization, please feel free to add them to the comments here!
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1. Matthew | February 19th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Paul, sounds pretty ambitious of you. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Let us all know if we can help in any way. I am getting tremendous feedback from my crew on the whole thing. I finally finished our site restructure, although the franchise info is still lacking at the moment. The integration with MFL history is slick.
2. bonscott | February 21st, 2006 at 8:29 am
It all sounds great! Especially if I can include “bye” week scores to go toward records like most points in a game.
I can help test if needed. I apologize for not getting into the FFLM imports for the player stats. Work has been crazy and I want to do nothing but play games and watch TV when I get home. I’ll try to dedicate some time here in the next month to look at it.
3. Matthew | March 16th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
When defending your lack of input on something, I would suggest not including that all you want to do is play games and watch TV. Just a suggestion, lol
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