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Hooper
23-06-2005, 09:22 PM
Gidday Guys,

I've been bouncing this one around in my head for the last couple of weeks. I finaly went and talked to a programer mate of mind about how posable it was...he told me give him a coupla weeks and he'd have something for me.

But, Then I thought it might be a good idea to see if something like this is wanted/needed.

The General Idea -
Like the topic says, a player/team database. The main purpose for this is to make it easy for torny organizers to determine Div2/Div1/Pro status for teams.
Each player creates his own username/etc. Players can then form teams. Torny Oganizers can then credit verious teams for wins/placings for a torny.
For example -
Player A might create a team (Team Bills), and invite players B, C and D to join the team (Who would have to accept the invitation). The site then records that players A, B, C and D are part of 'Team Bills'.
Team Bills plays in Div1 at Southpacs, coming 2nd place. Big Gav logs on and enters the results of the torny.

What does all this mean? Well, it gives a simple and easy way of tracking how much experiance/skill a team and player has. Its easly searchable to see how well Team Bills performed againced Team Agg (or whoever). Over time it gives an easy way to rank players and teams as it records their victorys and losses.

Fun Stuff,
Ofcause, no player/team database would be complete without players being able to show off their 'Gats' etc. This also allows other players tobeable to search players on the database (if they decide they want their profile to be visable), and send them PM's asking them about their marker/goggles/pod pack/etc.

Another added advantage I can see to this is an easy way to form teams. People who are unteamed (or are in a team that is not entering a particular event) to list their interest in a torny and look for other players to form a team with.

Other things that could be listed are training days attended, willingness to travel, etc. So if Team Bills wants another team member, they can look over the player database and assess players as to their suitablilty.


What do you guys think? I'd like lots of feed back, from both players, and torny organizers. What features would you like to see, etc.
Your thoughts?


Hooper

RODDERZ
23-06-2005, 09:29 PM
The idea of knowing what teams use what gats is a great idea as well as seeing how teams faired against other teams.

Bill
23-06-2005, 09:48 PM
Ive got a results database mostly complete (has been for ages, too much to do and not enougth time).
It will allow you search by team, event etc (right back to the stone ages :lol: ).
Allow you to follow a teams progress over time, see % win / loss ratios against another team and so on.

Its tied into the event calander so that after an event is held instead of the event details it takes you to the results, You can search for specific stuff from there.

I did at one stage consider adding a players table to it, but decided not to as I couldant see anyone bothering to enter the info per individual.

i8dafrog
23-06-2005, 09:54 PM
well it sounds sick

Gupt
23-06-2005, 09:57 PM
something like this would really help in putting teams together, if players where able to maintain their profile etc we could quickly and easily see who (according to the attributes they select in their profile setup), want to train, can attend interstate tournaments, has large van on LPG, owns air compressor etc ...

Jeroth
23-06-2005, 09:57 PM
Sounds like a good idea, go for it.

GAV WA
23-06-2005, 10:48 PM
Even if not for the whole team division ratings and team organising side it would still make for some really interesting and possibly usefull info. It would definetly make for some interesting reading.

i8dafrog
24-06-2005, 12:46 AM
Ive got a results database mostly complete (has been for ages, too much to do and not enougth time).
It will allow you search by team, event etc (right back to the stone ages :lol: ).
Allow you to follow a teams progress over time, see % win / loss ratios against another team and so on.

Its tied into the event calander so that after an event is held instead of the event details it takes you to the results, You can search for specific stuff from there.

I did at one stage consider adding a players table to it, but decided not to as I couldant see anyone bothering to enter the info per individual.


How bout one player from each team or capitan or who ever, collect all the info and report back to Bill or whoever gets it happening.

save a lot of stuffing round i think

Hooper
24-06-2005, 04:36 AM
Well the idea is that the players can enter all their own data/pictures/whatever, saving work for the administrator.
Then just the people who run Tornys ether enter the torny results, or send them to the admin to enter them.

Means that the work load for any one person is low.

Bill, any chance I could get a copy of all the data you have regarding tornys etc. that you already have in your DB?


Hooper

Dannefaerd
24-06-2005, 06:50 AM
Don't reinvent the wheel.

APPA (http://www.paintball-players.org/cgi-bin/newplayer.cgi?ref=1)

Electrofunkster
24-06-2005, 09:39 AM
mmm silly yanks ..

Razor .. nice idea ...

Big Steve
24-06-2005, 10:29 AM
:respekt: Damn good idea Dark Razer, this would be a sick resource :thumbsup:

Jamie_Cracker
24-06-2005, 02:58 PM
um is there really a need to????

Deadeye
24-06-2005, 03:04 PM
not in my opinion

Flip
24-06-2005, 03:08 PM
How bout one player from each team or capitan or who ever, collect all the info and report back to Bill or whoever gets it happening.

save a lot of stuffing round i think
cant see it happening. Who will maintain it and keep it up to date. All the torneys,all the teams...all the roster and team changes anually,monthly,weekly. On top of that getting a commitment from all tornaments and teams....aaaaa....if that doesnt happen its only partial and therefor useless and a waste of time :hammer: not a bad idea but logistics prevent it from happening...however happy to be proven wrong :D

Gupt
24-06-2005, 08:02 PM
why wait to be proven wrong when you can help and get things done. a national database would prove a handy tool to regulate this volatile and slap happy industry ...

i8dafrog
24-06-2005, 11:08 PM
cant see it happening. Who will maintain it and keep it up to date. All the torneys,all the teams...all the roster and team changes anually,monthly,weekly. On top of that getting a commitment from all tornaments and teams....aaaaa....if that doesnt happen its only partial and therefor useless and a waste of time :hammer: not a bad idea but logistics prevent it from happening...however happy to be proven wrong :D


True, i didnt really take that into consideration well sounds good :D

HellSpawn
25-06-2005, 08:01 AM
Sounds like you have a idea there mate.
Time will tell if its a good or bad idea, and weather it's popular or unpopular but I'm telling you now that australian paintball (which I am one of) players winge more than a bus full of old poms.
I'll give 7 points for thinking on you own behalf but.

Bill
27-06-2005, 10:18 PM
Ok, when I get around to completeing the Results Database (These School Holidays, probably) I will extend the Team info part from just "Team Name" and "Division" to allow more details to be added if desired.
It will be simple enougth to link the Team name to a user account on here so that people can edit their own entry if the feel like it (same as the field and stores directory).

This way people have the option of adding info like Contact details, Sponsor details, maybe a Team pic, or doing nothing. The choice is theirs.

If it proves popular enougth I can then expand it as required, adding individual players whatever.

Bill
27-06-2005, 10:21 PM
Bill, any chance I could get a copy of all the data you have regarding tornys etc. that you already have in your DB?


Hooper
Sure, just wait till the database is up.
Most of the old info is still on some old .shtml pages :eek: from the old website at the moment.

zandour
30-06-2005, 05:00 PM
Excellent idea. Do it.