Quote of the day
"We got beat tonight. … The bottom line is this is the playoffs, we've got to come to play and we didn't. We got beat." -- Lakers head coach Mike Brown, after suffering a beatdown in the first game of their second round series against Oklahoma City Daily blurb
The migration to the new RotoGuru server is almost complete, and I’m encouraged by the results. I’m pretty sure that there were a couple of periods over the past several days that would have gridlocked the old server. A year ago, the server was getting about 4-5 thousand pageviews per day. This year, daily pageviews are running in the 10-12 thousand range, and about one-six of those occur during the hour prior the dominant starting time for MLB games (e.g., noon-1pm on Sunday, 6-7pm on most weekdays).
Over the next month, I’ll be working on automating more of the statistical production. The work can be tedious, but I think the longer-term benefits will be significant - both in the timeliness of updates and the manual work needed for daily maintenance. A lot of the statistical feed processes were developed 10 or more years ago, and really need to be re-engineered. Time to bite the bullet.
By the way, I was recently able to (re)acquire the RotoGuru.com domain. As long term Gurupies may recall, I did not originally have legal ownership of the domain when the site was started back in 1997 (a naïve mistake), and the inability to control the domain led me to eventually shift to RotoGuru.net as the “home base”, along with several other derivatives. I don’t have any immediate plans to revert back to RotoGuru.com as the advertised home url, although it now leads to the same place. It feels a bit like the prodigal son has returned home.