Quote of the day
"Destiny is more powerful than a curse. Whatever is meant to be will happen. Faith." -- Drew Brees, after being selected to appear on the cover of the “Madden NFL 11” Daily blurb
Just a week ago, I launched a beta version of a new “live stats” tool that provides updated player stats in real time in a format that is “friendly” not only to computers, but also PDAs and cell phones. In the past week, many significant enhancements have been added - in listed stats, in format, in user-specified options, and in output mode. While I’m still declaring this to be in beta mode, I think much of the first-stage development is now complete. If you haven’t recently checked out getstats.pl, you should see what it can do now. (Scroll to the bottom to see a list of options.) Thanks to many of you who made helpful suggestions, both at the baseball forum and in emails. Your ideas and thoughts have prompted and inspired many of the newer features.
This is only the beginning, though, and not the end. I plan to add some player filtering capabilities, so that users can select to view a user-specified subset of players. I also hope to add some automated emailing capabilities. And I’m sure features will be added that I haven’t even contemplated yet. At this point, I consider the current version to be the basic engine. Stay tuned for future developments.
Speaking of future developments, RotoHog has announced a change in their player repricing formula for their Salary Cap games, effective Sunday. While details are unavailable, it will apparently place greater emphasis on daily trade flows, rather than ownership levels. I don’t know if this means that it will more closely resemble the old TSN formula or not. We’ll have to figure that out next week. Meanwhile, a great many teams have already passed the $100 million value mark (and many will be over $110m by Sunday), so it remains to be seen whether a change in the formula will have much impact. Frankly, I’m never very keen on mid-season changes in rules and practices. Still, I guess they had to try something different before getting to football season, as the current hyper-inflationary approach effectively neutered the salary cap-ness of the game.