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Subject: TSN: First Are-We-Having-Fun-Yet Thread
Posted by: Erik B.
- [239592612] Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 16:46
Gang:
The scoring on day 1 seems to be working, and the interface, in my opinion, is the best one we've done. So -- are you having fun yet? Do you see any major bugs? Let me know. I'll try to check here daily.
-Erik
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| 1 | ccsoldiers/havin fun
ID: 439482921
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:05
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I know that this is not a bug but I'm sort of disappointed in the number of players in each pay game. It kind of makes it easy to get an average ranking. But other than that, everything looks great.
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| 2 | J
Leader
ID: 49346417
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:06
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So far so good Erik
One request (ok, maybe 2) when looking at other teams, as of now, there is no "Daily Stats Breakdown" which shows the last 5 days points for that team.
Also, on the division page, showing each teams $$$ & # of trades would be nice
Ok, 3 things.
The daily email report. Just Day 2, but I haven't seen one yet. In hockey their haven't been any blurbs for some players, can we expect to see blurbs in the near future? (hockey or hoops)
Thanks for listening to us!
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| 3 | ukula
ID: 50953016
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:09
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Ditto what J said concerning the RV and TRADES for each team on the division page.
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| 4 | RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 42121814
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:10
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On the Frozen Rosters, could you put a "Last TSNPs" and the "Last 5 TSNPs"? The spreadsheets will love ya for it.
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| 5 | RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 42121814
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:10
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What J said.
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| 6 | El Tel
ID: 56423193
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:19
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1-As the defending champion in the free game I implore you to make the 'Roster value' link work.
2-I would like a similar feature in Ultimate Hoops to that which exists at Hockey for last night's best performers.
3-Get your Premiership soccer game working to an acceptable standard.
PIP,PIP,
El Tel
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| 7 | PGunn
ID: 139161620
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:24
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El Tel are you going to be buying trades to defend your championship in the free game?
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| 8 | blade
ID: 49182919
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:46
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as J pointed out in post #2 i also would really like to see the "Daily Stats Breakdown" which shows the last 5 days points for your opponents teams.
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| 9 | El Tel
ID: 56423193
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 17:56
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P Gunn,NO WAY.That is why I'm in the Rotguru Net division.The Buy trades game stink unless you are prepared to play seriously and watch how many of the early trade buyers upsticks and crawl back into their tent having spent more than they can win.Just a cheap shot to get Erik's attention.I'll give it a serious go in 5/6 month games where the buyers realise how they are winning and get limp dick syndrome.World Cup Soccer was a joke and I don't really see how non-buyers stand a chance now they are dividing key games into 2 phases.Their(TSN) games,their strategy,their incomes and bonuses.Every European (not eligible for prizes and playing for the love of and addiction to the games)on these boards has expressed how unhappy we are with game development -to no avail.Eurogurupies are dead serious about the divisional 1 in Ultimate Hoops.
Cheers
El Tel
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| 10 | Erik B.
ID: 239592612
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 18:20
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El Tel: you know that I respect your opinions. We're trying our best to combine business interests with the interests of the community. I think we've done as good as we can do. I mean, we need to pay the bills and make good games to stay in business this year, and next, and the next ...
J, P Gunn, etc: Great suggestions. We're in the process of moving to a new space, but I don't see it being an issue to get these improvements done soon.
-Erik
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| 11 | PGunn
ID: 139161620
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 18:31
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I didn't make any suggestions but thanks anyway.
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| 12 | Burnettsville
Donor
ID: 319362319
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 18:42
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TSN Ultimate Hoops - it's fantastic!
I have one suggestion. I would like to be able to click on my own team from the divisional list of teams.
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| 13 | Jazz Dreamers
Sustainer
ID: 429533017
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 19:01
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This is just an idea -- I don't think it's important for this hoops season, but it might make for a nice feature later on.
What if there was a link on a manager's team history to a page that would track the team's progress? For example, it could have a chart that had a row for each day of the season, and in each row would be listed the manager's points for that day, his total points up to that day, his roster value on that day, his overall rank on that day, and his division rank that day.
It would be cool in April to go back and look and see "Wow I was ranked #123 in November, fell all the way to #789 on February 23, but recovered to finish #456." Of course, a manager could keep track of that himself, but it might be an easy feature to add that some managers would appreciate.
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| 14 | TaRhEElKiD
ID: 42109719
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 19:06
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All I had was TRV on the "your division" page, but J made that 3 times better. I agree 100%.
THK
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| 15 | Ender
ID: 13443221
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 19:46
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Burnettsville, is simply clicking the "Your Team" link on the side menu to difficult? ;)
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| 16 | RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 42121814
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 19:54
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A slightly different version of Jazz Dreamers's idea; how about some extra data points that shows "Season Highs" for your team; WWR, single day's TSNPs, your highest Single Player TSNP (with name/date).
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| 17 | rockafellerskank
Sustainer
ID: 30831210
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 20:02
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Erik:
how about a "printable page" link? Curently the standard template doesn't print your team on 1 page and show the price on the far right.
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| 18 | rage_22
Donor
ID: 4582621
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 20:03
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Ender,
I'm not sure, but without such a link on the "Your Division" page, I don't know if you can ever look at what your true "frozen roster" is for that day. You can always look at what your team is currently composed of, but I'm not sure you can see a 100% accurate frozen roster for a day. Say you make a trade at noon, and you're not sure if it went through (not taking into account that I think it tells you what time you made the trade when you do make it), I don't know if you have an ability just to make sure that your frozen roster isn't invalid. But someone please CMIIW.
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| 19 | Burnettsville
Donor
ID: 319362319
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 20:08
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Ender, obviously, that is what I do now. And it isn't too difficult. I would just like it. I would like to be able to click my team and have it pop up in the exact same format as the other teams in my division (on my screen you can see two more rows of players in that format.) It's not a big deal to me, I'd just like it.
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| 20 | Burnettsville
Donor
ID: 319362319
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 20:10
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I think you're right rage.
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| 21 | Erik B.
ID: 239592612
Wed, Oct 30, 2002, 20:20
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Cool ideas, all.
I'll see what's possible.
-ESB
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| 22 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 10:36
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I just got my first team email report. What a mess! My four guards are listed three times, as guards, forwards, and centers.
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| 23 | Bernie H.
ID: 33703110
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:35
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That's just our new position flexibility feature, Guru.
Seriously, yeah, it was a big mess. Don't know how that got out in that state. We'll clean it up.
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| 24 | Dave R
Leader
ID: 12441623
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:37
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Having fun til right now, 11:37 EST and TSN is down, can the deadline be extended
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| 25 | Farn
Donor
ID: 7822711
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:37
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does having fun mean that I can't access my free game team because your site is down?
fortunately i only need to make a trade and its 20mins before the deadline.
yes, loads of fun.
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| 26 | albo222
Donor
ID: 541025107
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:38
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The system is down and I have an invalid team!!!
What happens if the system isn't up by noon?
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| 27 | J
Leader
ID: 49346417
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:39
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site down, drafting team, please extend the freeze for today!!!!!
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| 28 | Blooki
ID: 6838118
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:40
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Ditto on the TSN being down part. Wasn't planning on making trades, but I would like to have a ability to. :)
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| 29 | Flying Polack
ID: 48914212
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:40
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Site still down. Drafting original team. Ouch.
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| 30 | Flying Polack
ID: 48914212
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 11:41
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We're Sorry! The page you requested is temporarily unavailable. Please try back shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for using SportingNews.com!
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| 31 | Vilica
Sustainer
ID: 12811817
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 13:14
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Got my first 3 email reports today, and was delighted to learn that my Guards for all 3 teams were listed as both my forwards and centers, although the points calculation was correct (from what I noticed).
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| 32 | Erik B.
ID: 239592612
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 15:42
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Gang:
Sorry about the down-time today. It was roughly 10 minutes of down-time. Everyone has until 5 to make moves.
-Erik
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| 33 | gibby88@WORK
ID: 588371414
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 15:44
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When will Pat Burke (ORL) be available?
Thanks!
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| 34 | MyLakers
ID: 13782314
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 15:52
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Will the Division page look like the Ult Football page anytime soon, ie...Roster values and number of trades left?
myl
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| 35 | Bernie H.
ID: 33703110
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 17:12
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Yes, we plan to put all those goodies in within the next couple of days. Stay tuned!
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| 36 | Farn
Donor
ID: 7822711
Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 19:43
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can you make the Financial Report work in the free game? All it shows is a blank roster.
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| 37 | Slackjawed Yokel
Sustainer
ID: 668290
Sat, Nov 02, 2002, 11:40
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I like the addition of the TSND on the division page. Any plans on adding number of trades as well?
Also wondering when you'll update the managers' profiles with the final baseball standings.
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| 38 | J
Leader
ID: 49346417
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 09:51
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BUTT
this last 5 day thing is really driving RSF crazy, any good news for him? :)
Also, what about a Franchise Value manager leader listing?
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| 39 | Erik B.
ID: 239592612
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 11:15
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J:
Working on this. We're in the process of moving offices, which has been brutal. But improvements should be in the game this week.
-ESB
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| 40 | J
Leader
ID: 49346417
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 11:24
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thanks Erik, one more I haven't heard an answer on...in the team reports, any chance of getting blurbs of each player in there? Like we had with baseball (this applies towards hockey and/or hoops)
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| 41 | Erik B.
ID: 239592612
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 11:25
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J:
Nope. Unfortunately, we don't write blurbs for these sports. In other words, it's not a tech issue, it's a resource/content issue.
-ESB
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| 42 | DissFunkShun
ID: 341154191
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 15:44
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Erik, I've noticed that you have the teams home & away games on the schedule reversed. Haven't checked every team but every one so far seems to be incorrect.
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| 43 | Shooter
ID: 40741510
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 16:11
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Dear Eric,
Can you please look into a problem with the scoring on my nascar team. You have incorrectly added the totals for yesterdays race. You have me with only 623 points, when I should have 770 points.My frozen roster is correct, but the total points is wrong. My team name is Shooter and user_id is 3570. Thanking you in advance. Chris
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| 44 | MyLakers
ID: 13782314
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 16:18
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Eric,
Because Im an idiot I have a request. It seems when one is excited about the great future plans one has just made..SOMETIMES one will buy the second individual in his plan instead of the first one..thus wasteing a trade and MANY MANY curse words. Would it be possible to institute some kind of 5 minute rule, so you can change your mind or fix a trade mistake? I have only done this about twice in the four years I have been around here but it really sux.
Myl(dufus)
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| 45 | ukula
ID: 181037413
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 16:29
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Eric - what about displaying a clock on the site so that we can see how much time we have remaining before the roster freeze. On a few ocassions I have decided not to chance making a move when my clock says 11:58 for fear that the TSN clock might say 12:01.
ukula
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| 46 | Scrambled Eggs
ID: 54829225
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 16:35
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Yes a clock would be great. That way I wouldn't have to convert my Euro time to the US time... (okay, it's a lazy argument, but still a clock would be nice :) )
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| 47 | MyLakers
ID: 13782314
Mon, Nov 04, 2002, 18:33
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butt
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| 48 | MyNiners
ID: 13782314
Tue, Nov 05, 2002, 08:55
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a clock would be handy
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| 49 | KYCAT
Donor
ID: 37649415
Tue, Nov 05, 2002, 08:59
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I would love some kind wireless access....if nothing else- to see the daily pricemovers
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| 50 | Erik B.
ID: 239592612
Tue, Nov 05, 2002, 10:39
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A clock has been discussed. Thanks guys.
-ESB
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| 51 | Shooter
ID: 40741510
Tue, Nov 05, 2002, 10:43
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Eric,
Can you please have someone look into the scoring problem (post 43), I have emailed TSN already, but no response. Thanks Chris
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| 52 | J in Va
ID: 27104479
Tue, Nov 12, 2002, 12:12
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BUTT...
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| 53 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Nov 14, 2002, 09:27
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Erik/Bernie - Putting team values on the division page was a really nice addition. How about adding trades available on that page as well? It would be really nice to be able to see both value and trades remaining all on one page.
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| 54 | J
Leader
ID: 49346417
Thu, Nov 14, 2002, 11:21
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I think first and foremost should be to set up position changes. Someone mentioned to do it once a week, like you do with IPO's. We need to know when this will happen because it is a serious factor in our trading.
For example, I'd love to be able to move Ricky Davis to G and dump Ginopieceofcrapbili for a forward! But I have no idea if I will be able to. I'm gonna be upset if everything gets updated the very next day and I didn't know about.
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| 55 | Erik B.
ID: 239592612
Thu, Nov 14, 2002, 15:51
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Guru:
I like your suggestion.
-ESB
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| 56 | deepsnapper
Sustainer
ID: 5210561414
Thu, Nov 14, 2002, 16:08
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I like the Basic Hockey Price Movers "Top Gainers & Losers" for the Last 7 Days and the Season in addition to the Top Position player Gainers.
Any chance of getting the "Last 7 Days" feature added to Ultimate Basketball?
A "Last 14 Days" or some other number of days rather than the "Season" number would also be interesting. "Season" becomes meaningless after a while.
Thanks again as we are having fun. ;)
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| 57 | Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Nov 14, 2002, 16:46
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deepsnapper - I assume you realize that the sartibles have an option for the last 7 days of price changes.
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| 58 | deepsnapper
Sustainer
ID: 5210561414
Thu, Nov 14, 2002, 17:17
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Guru - Yup, that's where I get my 7 & 15 day views. I was just surprised to see it on the Basic hockey price movers page and not on an Ultimate game. It may be on Ultimate Hockey's PM page, but I'm not playing.
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| 59 | Slackjawed Yokel
Sustainer
ID: 668290
Thu, Nov 14, 2002, 17:29
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Erik - Oh sure, you like it when Guru suggests it, but not when I did in post #37 (or MyLakers in #34, for that matter). I mean, what do we need to do, start our own website celebrating your product to get some respect? ;}
Actually, I'm still curious as to when you'll update the profiles to include the baseball results.
BTW, Guru, I got my hat today for placing in the ultimate baseball standing, and am proudly wearing it now- thanks! Now I just gotta sit back and wait for the $50 TSN checks to start rolling in...
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| 60 | RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 211013916
Sun, Nov 17, 2002, 04:59
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One slight issue.
I just went to the "scores/schedules" page and clicked any boxscore link and it ships you to an NHL game. I like hockey and all, you know "Go WinterHawks!", but I'd prefer the "nhl" in the URL be replaced with "nba".
Thanks.
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| 61 | J
Leader
ID: 49346417
Thu, Nov 28, 2002, 12:12
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Erik - It's been a month now
still no Last 5 stats for other teams
still no # of trades on the division page
Not to mention, we'd like to know what your plans are for IPO's and position updates.
Thanks,
J
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| 62 | Vilica
Sustainer
ID: 3641681
Thu, Nov 28, 2002, 12:51
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Another slight issue in relation to RSF's scores/schedule mishap.. looking at boxscores on the site, as well as the schedule of games, the day is offset by 1... eg Wed 11/27 points to games on the 28th, and so on. Not something totally important but relevant enough.
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