Forum: hoop
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Subject: Hip Check v4.11 - GuruPatron Bonus Tool

  Posted by: RecycledSpinalFluid - [35928913] Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:08
With a recent rash of injuries to my players, I realized what a pain it is to lookup data on players at all the different sites. I wished there was an easy way to say "Open all pages related to Joe Schmoe", click a button and BLAM! There they are. Well, here is what I came up with. Definitely just a beginning point, but better than nothing.

Some low-down:
0.) This is only operational if you are a GuruPatron. This is designed to be a bonus for their financial support of Guru's fabulous site.

1.) To automagicly select all boxes for a specific site, click on the below its name.

2.) The ALL will open up all the possible pages for the specific player (the individual check boxes do not get selected).

3.) If you are running on a dialup, this might be slightly painful. A lot of simultaneous pages loads at one time may cause some to not load.

I think that is about it.

Good Luck.
 
1RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 35928913
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:09
Roto
World
Roto
Guru
NBA
.com
ESPN
Team
Page
CNNSI
Team
Page
TSN
Team
Page
CBS
Sportsline
Team
Page
Some
Local
Press
ALL
Select Players:


 
2RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 35928913
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:10 		One thing, I need local sources for San Antonio and Dallas. Anyone have one?
 
3Padkee
      Leader
      ID: 50962922
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:16 		WOW. Great time saver RFS. This will save many hours over the course of the season. Mucho thanks!
 
4rockafellerskank
      Donor
      ID: 359283123
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:18 		RSF-

This is too frickin' cool!

Thanks for the toy.

rfs
 
5rockafellerskank
      Donor
      ID: 359283123
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:31 		RSF,

Any chance a baseball version of this will pop up in April?

rfs
 
6 RMBees
      Leader
      ID: 1604688
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:36 		RecycledSF, This is great thank you for making it available. I tried to access but was denied for being a non-patron. I have contributed and should have patron "status". I am also damn near computer illiterate. What do I need to do to access this most valuable tool?
 
7biliruben
      Sustainer
      ID: 3502218
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 20:44 		Holy Olowokandi, Batman! 8 windows in 1 second flat!

Who woulda guessed the big man had a degree in economics!

Thanks RSF!

RMBees - my guess is you should email Guru and get your tag listed.
 
8Stuck in the Sixties
      Leader
      ID: 12451279
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 21:41 		This is absolutely fantastic!!!!
What an incredibly wonderful tool

Thanks so much for making it available
 
9culdeus
      Donor
      ID: 01155718
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 21:52 		For Dallas, try this. Dallasnews.com requires a login and password for subscribers. But Fort Worth is only a 30 minute car ride away and has it's own paper.

However, problem for your deal

http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2002/01/09/nba/

See the 01 and 09 change every day. Take a look and see what you think. Thanks for the great work though. Look forward to using it.
 
10Stuck in the Sixties
      Leader
      ID: 12451279
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 22:01 		Spurs can be found at
 
11jumpball
      Sustainer
      ID: 111156110
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 22:14 		thanks rsf -- this is a great New Year's present!
 
12Mike D
      Donor
      ID: 1403917
      Wed, Jan 09, 2002, 23:58 		Another reason why this site is so great....people like RSF, and the tools they create and share.

Kudos to you, RSF, yet again.
 
13Slowhand
      Leader
      ID: 50117261
      Thu, Jan 10, 2002, 00:04 		Thanks rsf....I am in awe
 
14allhair allstars
      Sustainer
      ID: 50740190
      Thu, Jan 10, 2002, 00:27 		RSF,
It's hip and cool! Too bad you can't use it, eh? ;)

ps. My browser survived this time!
 
15ksoze
      Donor
      ID: 50643419
      Thu, Jan 10, 2002, 00:35 		Great effin tool RSF, thanks a lot.
 
16Stuck in the Sixties
      Leader
      ID: 12451279
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 01:29 		butt
 
18blue hen, almighty
      Leader
      ID: 27048221
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 01:41 		Why not use ESPN player pages? Or better yet, ESPN fantasy pages?
 
19RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 211013916
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 03:34 		rockafellerskank, re: Post 5, sure, if I am around then. Should be simple enough to convert (yeah right.)

RMBees, did your issue ever get cleared up? From the looks of it, you should be able to use it.

blue hen, almighty, I son't have and list of all ESPN player IDs with their names. Email mail me one and I might add it, although, the regular ESPN page doesn't add much that the others (NBA.com) don't already have.
 
20RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 211013916
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 03:37 		Gees, nice english. Thats supposed to start...

"blue hen, almighty, I don't have a list..."
 
21kycat
      ID: 50044410
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 05:31 		I am being rejected as a 'patron' as well....anyone know how to solve this?

Thanks
 
22kycat
      ID: 50044410
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 05:35 		Nevermind....I just noticed that 'donor' has disappeared from under my name. Could that be from deleting cookies?
 
23Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 08:28 		kycat - if you deleted cookies, then your ID was reset. I'll add this ID to the list.

RMBees, if the GuruPatron identifier appears under your name (as it did), then you should be OK. If not, then there is some other problem.
 
24kycat
      Donor
      ID: 50044410
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 19:31 		Thanks Guru.....It was a good reminder to contribute again anyway.

Thanks RSF
 
25RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 35928913
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 19:40 		Spurs and Mavericks local papers are now updated.

I used the Dallas News for the Mavwrecks and the link supplied by Stuck in the Sixties for the Spurs.

Thanks.
 
26RMBees
      Leader
      ID: 1604688
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 19:50 		RSF and Guru- It's now working fine for me Thanks!!
Also, Guru this served as a gentle reminder that I need to reup and will be sending a check for similar amount as last year. Thank you for a tremendous site.
 
28louky
      Sustainer
      ID: 527283021
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 21:24 		RSF, very, very good stuff!!

Guru, any chance this makes the drop down menu?
 
29Stuck in the Sixties
      Leader
      ID: 210251121
      Fri, Jan 11, 2002, 21:28 		I agree that this needs to find its way onto the drop down menus. BUTT until it does.....
 
31smallwhirled
      Donor
      ID: 157582113
      Mon, Jan 14, 2002, 19:23 		wow, just got onto the boards, and I see this BUTTED! This is great!!!
 
32Bethesda Panthers
      Leader
      ID: 48945318
      Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 18:04 		Thank you RSF - It's very helpful. I also support inclusion in the drop downs so more people will find it. Until then, I'll add this BUTT and also note to users that this thread can be bookmarked.
 
33Hillbilly Delight
      ID: 3011462420
      Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 18:32 		Guru,

Have you recieved my donation yet? It was sent out last week. I just wanted to check on the status. :)

Thanks
 
34Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 18:33 		Any thought as to how I should list this in the drop-down? (What name, in other words)

Hip Check? (what's the derivation of "Hip Check"?)
Hip Check (RSF)?
RSF player lookup tool?

What will be the most recognizable or unconfusing?

 
35Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 18:34 		HD - if you sent it via mail, I haven't been to the mailbox in the last week. I'll get there later this week.
 
36rockafellerskank
      ID: 359283123
      Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 18:49 		How about RSF's Magic Injury Report ?

rfs
 
37KnicksFan
      ID: 31026721
      Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 19:18 		RSF's GuruPatron Player Info Tool
 
38Hillbilly Delight
      ID: 3011462420
      Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 20:59 		Guru,

Yeah, I sent it with snail mail. No problem. I was just wondering when I would have access to the injury tool, so I can keep up the injury thread better.

Thanks a lot
 
39azdbacker
      Donor
      ID: 1832261
      Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 00:33 		RSF - This is awesome! Thanks a million, you're the best.
 
40RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 211013916
      Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 02:00 		Hip Check comes from my failing memory of sports lingos and a pun on injuries. In rat ball, I (being 6'2" and of large frame) would give a hip check as opposed to a hand check (knocking someone "a country mile" in the process.) The injury part naturally plays off of that, as in "checking for hip injuries" or something to that effect. Lastly you could look at it from "hip check" as in cool, neat, etc way to look stuff up (does anyone still use this connotation?). And the versioning was just a play on "411" for info.

There are a couple of minor tweaks I want to add/change, as well as maybe add the ESPN fantasy pages to the list. Are there any constructive critisms, additions that people would want for this thing? Fewer/more name lists? Names by position? Other link pages? Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?

As for the name, if it does get added, just something like "Quick Player Lookup", but I don't really care. Labeling it as a GuruPatron tool would be nice. But people can figure this out later.
 
42rockafellerskank
      ID: 359283123
      Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 09:40 		Guru,

I seem to have 'lost' my patron tag... can you help? As you can see from ost #5, it used to be attached to this ID#.

rfs
 
43Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 10:29 		rfs - not sure what happened, but it should be OK now.

Hillbilly: I entered your ID for now, although no identifier will show yet. This should enable you to use the program until I get to the mailbox to confirm your donation.

KnicksFan - I updated your ID as well.

If anyone else needs to have their GuruPatron ID updated, just send me an email.
 
44Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 10:37 		I added a link to this thread in the second drop-down menu, just below the Assimilator link. The title is
RSF's GuruPatron Player Info,
which seemed like the most intuitively descriptive option.

Updated menus will only appear in newly created threads (and in the index of all threads), so don't look for it in this thread.

RSF, if you update program at some point, just post a new thread, and then let me know and I'll update the link.
 
45Hillbilly Delight
      ID: 3011462420
      Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 10:38 		Guru, thanks a lot!
 
46Perm Dude
      Leader
      ID: 12041621
      Wed, Jan 16, 2002, 23:49 		Good stuff, rfs. Thanks!

pd
 
47KnicksFan
      Donor
      ID: 131102221
      Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 03:04 		Cool! Guru chose my suggestion over yours rfs! Nanananana!

Guru- thanks for the update on that ID. When I go back to Cornell on saturday my ID will change yet again. Here at home I use two computers.
 
48Hillbilly Delight
      ID: 3011462420
      Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 12:42 		Thank you too, rsf :)
 
49 Barnyard Dawgs
      Leader
      ID: 28049178
      Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 13:07 		I'm still unable to use this. Keep getting the patron message.
 
50Barnyard Dawgs
      Leader
      ID: 28049178
      Thu, Jan 17, 2002, 13:08 		Never mind.
 
51Hillbilly Delight
      Donor
      ID: 3011462420
      Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 21:15 		butt
 
53RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 211013916
      Sat, Jan 19, 2002, 21:46
 
54Burnettsville
      Donor
      ID: 319362319
      Mon, Jan 28, 2002, 16:30 		butt
 
56Mat Cauthon
      Donor
      ID: 350272811
      Tue, Jan 29, 2002, 18:34 		butt
 
57GolfFreak
      Donor
      ID: 250282822
      Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 17:56 		butt
 
58 Stuck in the Sixties
      Leader
      ID: 12451279
      Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 19:09 		RSF:
I've used this before but now it tells me I need to be a patron. Any idea what might be happening?
 
59RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 211013916
      Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 00:57 		Not a clue why. From seeing your "Leader" tag, it should be working just fine.
 
60Stuck in the Sixties
      Leader
      ID: 12451279
      Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 10:28 		Working fine now ... some sort of hiccup, I guess. Thanks for such a great tool.
 
62Stuck in the Sixties
      Leader
      ID: 12451279
      Tue, Feb 12, 2002, 12:34 		butt
 
63rage_22
      Donor
      ID: 23115622
      Fri, Feb 22, 2002, 01:59 		BUTT
 
64KnicksFan
      Donor
      ID: 57832250
      Fri, Feb 22, 2002, 03:08 		No need to Butt a thread that is in the drop down menu
 
65rage_22
      Donor
      ID: 23115622
      Fri, Feb 22, 2002, 10:13 		Once again, my bad. You sure seem to be catching all my late night errors, don't you KnicksFan? :)
 
66KnicksFan
      Donor
      ID: 57832250
      Fri, Feb 22, 2002, 16:28 		Better question is why was i still on rotoguru.com at 3 in the morning when i had an early class the next day? ;)
 
67J
      Leader
      ID: 34451212
      Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 11:07 		RSF - I think Charlotte has some new links, at least the local paper link has changed.
 
68RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 42121814
      Tue, Feb 26, 2002, 11:50 		Lets try this one...
 
69 Mat Cauthon
      ID: 56246423
      Fri, Mar 22, 2002, 19:45 		Butt
 
71RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 42121814
      Tue, Sep 24, 2002, 16:50 		Does post 70 count as an "Invisabutt"?
 
73chuckball
      Donor
      ID: 58856303
      Sun, Oct 13, 2002, 18:06 		butt
 
74rage_22@work
      ID: 2842719
      Sun, Oct 13, 2002, 19:28 		See posts 63 and 64.
 
75GolfFreak
      Donor
      ID: 559171412
      Mon, Oct 14, 2002, 14:24 		Hi Dave!

I have moved and switched ISP > And now i'm not able to use the GuruPatron Bonus Tool
How do i reset my ID???
 
76GolfFreak
      Donor
      ID: 559171412
      Mon, Oct 14, 2002, 14:26 		nevermind it working now !!! thanks
 
78Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Oct 14, 2002, 16:42 		With the move to a new server, all GuruPatrons have to validate their ID in order to use this tool. This can be done one of two ways:

1. Post a message (or reply) in any forum area or thread. That's what solved GolfFreak's problem in [75].

2. Click here. Assuming this page recognizes your status, you're all set. If not, send me an email, and I'll fix things for you.
 
79dudette524
      Donor
      ID: 39039129
      Sat, Feb 15, 2003, 21:25 		Thanks RSF for this awesome tool
 
80dudette524
      Donor
      ID: 21105189
      Tue, Feb 18, 2003, 15:41 		This is a great tool to use when planning trades, but I have found a couple of problems. When I wanted to look at Juwan Howard, it sent me to Dallas Mavericks info and when I looked at Troy Hudson, it sent me to Orlando Magic info. I don't know how the links are set up, but if a player has changed teams in the last year, it seems to go to the old team. Just thought you should know.
 
81RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 1924582
      Tue, Feb 18, 2003, 15:50 		Yeah, I keep telling myself that I need to invest some time into updating this, but forget about it (usually within seconds of the initial thought).

All traded/moved players as well as rookies are not listed or are incorrectly listed.
 
82dudette524
      Donor
      ID: 21105189
      Tue, Feb 18, 2003, 16:13 		It's no big problem really, RotoWorld and RotoGuru are both correct and they give some of the best info available anyway. Thanks again for doing all of this for us sports junkies of the world.
 
83RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 127421915
      Wed, Oct 01, 2003, 14:36 		OK, I'm going to update this thing this year with all the current players and add in several more sites.

So far, here is what I am working to include:

Individual Player Pages:
* RotoWire
* RotoWorld
* RotoGuru
* NBA.com
* Waymoresports
* ESPN Player (Is ESPN Fantasy same ID?)
* RealGM
Yahoo

Team Pages:
ESPN Team Page
CNNSI Team Page
TSN Team Page
CBS Sportsline Team Page
Official Team Page (NBA.Com?)
Some Local Press

* = Already Grabbed IDs

Are there additional sites (for player pages or team pages) that I should look into? Come on, give up those top secret sites!
 
84 DrD
      Donor
      ID: 34735159
      Thu, Oct 02, 2003, 08:24 		How do you get to this site to get all this information this year? Keep up the good work! All your many efforts are appreciated.
 
85leggestand
      Sustainer
      ID: 4881297
      Thu, Oct 02, 2003, 09:07 		Very nice RSF. Pretty unbelievebale actually.
 
86RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 127421915
      Thu, Oct 02, 2003, 11:49 		DrD, nice to see you here (assuming you're the one with your own division from last season; Mavwrecks fan IIRC), especially supporting the site with "Donor" tag.

You will be able to access this stuff right here, in this forum. It will just another thread (and is a Drop Down selection "RSF's GuruPatron Player Info" in the second selection box on all Forum Pages).
 
88RecycledSpinalFluid
      Dude
      ID: 367232615
      Thu, Oct 30, 2003, 21:39 		The next gen of this is working, some have tested it, but I need to do some verifications of the ids. Also, need to verify that it is a Gurupatron only tool, but the changes make it more difficult. I'll need to run some things past Guru to assure that it is. Once those things get ironed out, the new version will be posted.
 
89 DrD
      Donor
      ID: 34735159
      Tue, Nov 04, 2003, 21:14 		Recycled, I am always amazed at your ability to come up with the statistics for us. Could you tell me how to find out how many individual players are held by TSN players? It would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, DrD
 
90RecycledSpinalFluid
      Dude
      ID: 204401122
      Tue, Nov 04, 2003, 21:22 		When in doubt, I make them up.



OK, just kidding. It is done no different than the way you would look at each team in your division (although in your case, you already know! :) ) or the Top-Managers page. I just do it with a few more teams (in this case, all of them). I try to run on off-peak hours to not hog the servers up.

As for technique, there are two ways being used right now. The standings use an Excel Spreadsheet based approach that reads the teams. The second is a VBScript reading the teams and stuffing the data into an Access DB (although, I think I'm going to switch it over to MySQL or MS-SQLServer soon so I can run simultaneous sessions and get done quicker).

As for this thread, uhm, err...I need to finish this up. Players are fairly stable now, so that is about the last hurdle.
 
91Pacers Rule
      Donor
      ID: 910311210
      Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 20:50 		I'm at a different computer and wanting to get to RSF's live boxscores. Can someone please post the link? Thanks
 
92Pacers Rule
      Donor
      ID: 910311210
      Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 20:58 		Nevermind, I found it
 
93Pacers Rule
      Donor
      ID: 910311210
      Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 21:10 		Guru,
any thoughts of putting RSF's boxscores on the pull down menus?
 
94RecycledSpinalFluid
      Dude
      ID: 204401122
      Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 21:18 		Damn, I still haven't updated this?
 
95Pacers Rule
      Donor
      ID: 910311210
      Wed, Feb 04, 2004, 01:20 		RSF, I didn't find Chris Bosh on the player list.