MFLHistory Blog

The “Overhaul”

April 6th, 2006

Just to throw it out there upfront: This is NOT an announcement of new features being rolled out.

(and yes, I realize that I said something like ‘look for this around March Madness time’ — I think I know now one of the reasons why the Sideline guys never talk about release dates for new features!)

But, I do feel like I owe all of you a bit of an update to what’s going on with the app right now, so here goes:

In a purely test format (i.e., test results in straight text format, not displayable on the site), I have some code working that will allow for a tremendous number of ways to slice and dice single game records (I simply started there since they’re the most straightforward to work with). With this new design, single game records could be shown for all-time, a single season, a range or group of seasons, a range or group of weeks, a single week, a single team, a group of teams, for division or non-division games only (conferences too), and for a specific set of game types definable by you. Some examples of what this new setup would allow you to do:

• Most Points Scored, 2003-2005
• Least Points Scored by Barney’s Bombers in a Week 6 game
• Highest Victory Margin in a Playoff Game in 2001, 2003 or 2005
• Most Combined Points in a Division game involving Barney’s Bombers
• Most Points Scored in Week 1

As this retooling of the MFLHistory “engine” makes its way through the rest of the record types (and obviously into the functioning site for display), it will provide all of you with an incredible amount of customizability over the records on your sites.

In addition, this is an important step toward the creation of team-specific record pages (see those references to Barney’s Brewers above).

In time, this is all going to be pretty cool — it’s just that it is, in fact, going to take some time — and more than anything, I want to make sure this gets done right, so it might be a little bit yet — but trust me, it’s coming!

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