American Football Scheduling Difference

Hi Pete!

For Soccer it’s usually the other way around, but we can change that. Would you mind pasting the link to your website here, so we can check it out?

Kind Regards,
-Roch

I Roch,

Here’s the link to the alpha test site. I’m trying to figure a way to export the data from the test site without destructively rebuilding the WP tables as well.

Here’s ESPN’s NFL scoreboard, which shows the typical structure of score reporting.

The export functions would also be useful, as our League is planning on migrating to the SportsPress plugin. Providing updates to their site would be easier for matches with an export feature.

Hi Pete!

We do have export options via calendars, if you want something else let us know and we’ll check what can be done.

As for the order, just to make sure we are on the same page, so for example this one:
https://alpha.peterkloehn.com/event/64/

You want to switch the lines order in the “results” table to reflect this one:
https://espn.go.com/nfl/scoreboard/_/year/2015/seasontype/2/week/1

right?

You can do that under SportsPress > Settings > Logos > Format > Format > Reverse and the same in the next group: Event Results > Outcome > Reverse

Kind Regards,
-Roch

Thanks Roch,

That resolves the display issue, but the event page still shows the inverted order through the GUI. There also isn’t a label in the Event that calls out which team is being entered as the home and away side, which would be extremely helpful.

If you’d like to work together to set up an American Football specific GUI, I’d be more than willing to. There’s quite a few things missing from a bare-bones information standpoint about the sport that I could help you with.

I know that about 15 of the teams in our league use WordPress for their sites just in Ireland, so there is a base of users who would potentially use this in one country. The league is also looking to use this for their site as well.

Warm regards,
Pete

Hi Pete!

We are always glad to hear some suggestions ??

What do you have in mind?

For example adding home / away in the event page is possible via CSS (just that text though). But a lot of data can be added under SportsPress > Configure

Kind Regards,
-Roch

Hi Roch,

There’s a few items. The goal would be to make the plugin more attactive for American Football Clubs to use by offering better out-of-the-box look and feel. Right now there’s a fairly large barrier to use with all the customisation and modification needed to make the plugin look like an American Football product.

There are (potentially) all of the clubs on this site who are customers, in addition to the American semi-professional clubs.
https://www.europlayers.com/

1. Export of matches/teams/rosters by season for import from team site to league website and backup for restore.
– This seems to be needed as entries for the plugins are dependent on the option id.
– These option ids would not be the same between two different WordPress sites and could lead to duplicates.
2. Team level statistics for match results.
– This is considered basic level statistics. Going to player level is more intensive on an SID (Sports Information Department). Most teams won’t have an SID staff and the team level stats would be the easiest to enter and most useful.
– Looking at the single promo site for American Football, they do not use the stats features built into the plugin. The output they use is from a software suite, and not the built-in features.
https://www.oxfordsaints.com/
3. Team level season stats.
– Again, more useful in this sport than individual statistics. Individual stats would make more sense to put behind a paywall for the plugin.
4. Look at feasibility of adding tabbed results for events.
– Tabbed results would load the different pertinent information:
Summary | Box Score (Individual Stats) | Recap (Article) | Team Stats
5. Better differentiation between league and team site functionality.
– This seems build specifically for leagues to track teams. There’s ways to tailor it for team specific highlighting, but requires code customisation, which most teams won’t have someone at a high enough technical level to accomplish.

Let me know if you’re interested.

Pete

This thread is of interest to me as i created and administer https://www.oxfordsaints.com, which you referenced above Pete.

It took a fair bit of tweaking and modification to get it looking acceptable for American Football and there are bits that i feel i can’t use as it just doesn’t look right, like some of the stats and events.

I attempted to use the stats but as we had stats generated for us it became easier just to upload individual game stats as individual PDF’s to reports.

I would like to use the built in stats functionality but i didn’t find a easy way to use it and keep it up to date.

Season stats are definitely an interest though