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Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

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* Looks great, I think everyone is in agreeance on that. I had some questions about the actual data being shown and whether the emphasis should be on other datapoints and aggregations...

So the aggregate conference W-L standings are overall records, right? As the season goes on, most games are played within conferences...so...what's the relevancy of displaying conference by these W-L numbers? If there were no early non-conference games, then the W-L ratio would basically be 50-50 for every conference. I think you should remove that statistic as it's not terribly useful.

* Also, the filters provide a few confusing options. If I select "Winning games", the view stays the same except that everyone (and every conference) has a winning record...I understand programmatically why that is, but I don't think the layperson will.

Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

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Hah, read the title as "football, the sort you play with a round ball" and got rather excited. Only minor disappontment ensued when I realized you were talking about "handegg". ;) Still, I love this kinda stuff and have been pining for more creative, dynamic presentations of futbol stats. I wish anyone could explain to me why every darn mainstream coverage site has the same, boring chart of the same, boring dozen sta…

Football, a sport played on foot.

What about handball?

Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

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post #31

* Looks great, I think everyone is in agreeance on that. I had some questions about the actual data being shown and whether the emphasis should be on other datapoints and aggregations... So the aggregate conference W-L standings are overall records, right? As the season goes on, most games are played within conferences...so...what's the relevancy of displaying conference by these W-L numbers? If there were no early n…

Great feedback - we're listening...

Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

#38

This is awesome. My only concern is that the data looks to be a bit stale, as the Oregon Ducks won last night but none of their stats are up. Mind if I ask where you're pulling the data from?

Thanks. Data is sourced directly from the NCAA. Expect updates every Sunday morning.

are you scraping results into your database from their site? Also, are you familiar with sportsML and sportsdb[1] ?

I ask because I am also working on a sports product for release in November.

Nice work!

[1] - http://www.sportsdb.org/sd

Re: Show HN: StatMilk - Football Stats Visualized

#39

Very nice! Beautiful and very fast for the amount of data that is calculated on the fly. What technologies did you use? Also, did you have to pay license fees to display team and conference logos?

MVC3 + SQL Server + Mongo + custom software for the realtime calculations. All components (with the exception of the front-end) are highly abstracted enabling us to swap technologies (e.g. SQL Server to MySQL, Mongo to Memcached) quickly.

Always great to see awesome things built on .Net!

I sent this to my sports and statistics obsessed friends. They will definitely love this.

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