Web ToDo List

1. Captains Ratings

   We've talked about this but have never done anything. This is players ranking captains (probably hatleagues only). We would use it to help decide who could be captains, offer advice to captains, etc. Really necessary as we have no objective way to determine this now which means its all pretty much who is around when the captains are selected. We need someone to come up with some questions and then it shouldn't be much work to include this on the players page.

2. Signups

   I think this is really working pretty well. Some minor things still remain:

   • The club leagues are still setup a bit by hand. Each one requires some code changes. This is probably pretty straightforward to fix. Optimally after we create a league (this process probably could use some work also), everything could be done from the admin.php page. Right now, much can be done from there, but the instructions are limited and much is unintuitive.

   • Bill has done much to improve the baggage stuff (sign up with). I would have tended to automate this a bit more by only using email addresses, but it seems to be working. I don't know how much manual time is required.

   • Moving information from signups to the actual leagues is very manual. It has to go through bill's laptop to get there. This is not so much a signup problem as a team creation problem.

   • We don't do a good job of getting information automatically from paypal. This could definitely be improved so that we automatically updated even if the person doesn't click all the way through.

   • Ask more specific questions about times people would like/need to play in the same format that bills program takes them (Monday, Wednesday, Monday Early, Monday late, etc) This would allow us to more easily check for errors.

3. Club League Pages

   Again, this is working pretty well. Since club leagues are now merged with hat leagues (code wise), I don't think there is much need for improvement here. Some people would like to be able to seed their teams with players, but that has implementation issues (how do you identify a player?) and I rather like that the person has to choose the team.

4. Captains pages (club and hatleague)
   • It would be really nice to have attendance features here so people could indicate whether or not they were coming and the captain would see a synopsis (as would the other team members). Obviously this would require changes to the players page as well.

   • It would be nice to be able to schedule practices as well as games (and indicate them as practices).

5. Rankings

   We are trying to incorporate past captains rankings and other information to improve player rankings. We need to add a form to allow a league ranking to be entered. We also need to automate the download process so that the calculated ranking is what is downloaded for use by the team creation program. None of this is automated as it should be.

6. Hatleague Tournament Information

   This is not done through the database. It requires manual setup for each season and could definitely have some more features.

7. Commissioners Handbook

   I think there is a word document that some people are working on. This really should be online in html and easily editable by commisioners so they can update it as they encounter issues.

8. Team Creation

   It would be really nice if this were done on the website rather than offline. That would remove the need to upload/download lots of data and we might even be able to imagine having someone other than Bill do it.

9. Scheduling

   The program works, but it has to be coddled. It would be good to better integrate this with the rest of the website (and have instructions on how to use it).

10. Permissions

    The permissions setup is very complex and difficult to debug. A simpler system and some easy forms to add/delete people from various permissions would be very helpful.

11. Old List

    This is smattering of things from prevous years:

    • A single index page for all things adminstrative. I would like to be able to log in to one location and then follow links to edit the hat league webpages, or mess with the rosters, or whatever. These links include:

      The BUDA Officials Page (contact info and useful documents): http://www.buda.org/admin_buda/index.php?

      The Captain Page (probably won't need this so much anymore): http://www.buda.org/hatleagues/captain.php

      The Hat League Details Admin Page (this is really important; it's how the FHL and other webpages are edited): http://www.buda.org/hatleagues/admin.php?

      Rosters Admin Page (already mentioned): http://www.buda.org/hatleagues/rosters_admin.php?

      Schedule Admin Page: http://www.buda.org/hatleagues/schedule_admin.php?

      Schedule Creation Page (could be combined with the admin page?): http://www.buda.org/hatleagues/create_schedule/

      It would be really nice to just log in and be presented with this options as a list of links or something. Right now I have them all saved as seperate bookmarks, and I suspect some may be defunct.

    • Semi-automatically inform people of roster moves (ie, mail captains and players, but allow the mail to be edited or cancelled before sending).

    • Keep a history of roster moves with date, person, and note

    • Provide a set of common tournament formats and create schedules from a list of ordered teams. This should include pools of 4 and 6. Also sample rules and the like.