TDP Tipster Record Table

[kompressaur]

Record as of: 08:55 17/12/07

Username	Bets	Win	Loss	Profit
Samuel	        3	1	2	 2
kompressaur	2	0	2	-11
ally boy	1	0	1	-10

all tipsters start with 0pts

[kompressaur]

is this a silly idea do you think?



I can take it. You can tell me. Honest if ANYONE has ANY ideas then just go for it. Thats the prob no-one ever does Im the only person about the place that tries ANYTHING

[jbgb007uk]

its a good idea komp but is there not a better way of doing it rather than you and a excel spreadsheet? Isn't there any software that can do it in our profiles, where we update it as we go?

[kompressaur]

Cheers jb. I think if we dicuss this more then maybe we could sort something. My problem is i need to know the best way that folks want to update something like this. In an ideal world etc. I think whatever the ideal is gonna be is gonna be above my technical know how. Im trying to get someone to work with me on the betting records for the blogs. Maybe we could just extend that idea further though and include the forums. If it was one central input page for all (forum members and blog users) then that would be ideal. Infact maybe ive jumped the gun a bit with wanting to make the blog betting records be the thing. What we really need is to make the betting records be on the forum (ie vbulletin) TDP Database is so huge though it makes anything a prob. Right so really we need everything that vbookie offers barr the crappy user input really. If i could use vbookie it would make life a hell of a lot easier as thats all set up to display totals abeit crappy one line. Ok lets forget vbookie entirely.

so we need some php wizzkid to make up something that has input forms, a few database queries (i think) and then a display of the output.

So let me think here. This thread is stuck as it is acting as a PAGE. On this page we need a big sexy fcuk off table that has loads of interactivity (like football365 stats) We need to have as many tipsters entering data (bets) so we need to make that as easy as we can for them. Thats the hard part i think. What would people use? Hows about just an input box top right of every forum. If your logged in and in Brit forum then you just enter your team name in a box, stake in the next box and price in the next. you then click Submit. Nice and quickly (axjax) it lets you enter your next selection. Bang bang bang gone in 15 seconds.

so we have the bets. The bets need adminned. Is it adminned by user or admin? I suggest admin so the settling must be as easy as having all the bets sortable by date/price/etc We click 'sort by name' and check all the 'arsenal' bets win or lose. Move down...albecentte etc etc. Easy life.

Now the data just needs to be displayed. as mentioned it needs to be sortable in as many ways as possble (streaks, price, ave bet, ave price etc etc)

k so stage one is just a simple input form and i'll go look at what i have there for vbullein forms

admin would be some kind of databse query. There should be something on vb that does database queries

the output would be errrr....i dunno simple php calls (help me out here anyone who knows more about this than me) database queries and a bit of html


sounds awfully hard jb but certainly within our communual grasp of understanding. If we had some php mysql wizz kid on board that would help. If anyone could do a complete job for us we'll pay you for your work.

also all ideas on the ideal way of doing this appreciated. as said between us all we could just pull this off. Im away to look at input forms. Im sure that stage is easy enough, hopefully it will enompass stage 2 too and id be happy with eevn the bare minimum for now re stage 3.

[kompressaur]

bah its not gonna be like blogabet records though is it? I wont settle for anything less to tel you the truth. I want and i need blogabets records. By hook or by crook im gonna get them and get them in the next 3 months. So we need bloagabet records in our profile. Our profiles are viewed by clicking avatar so thats simple enough. k thats the way forward and the only way. I'll give up the idea of taking a record forom the betting thread. I just thought it was nice to get folks involved thats all. Suppose any new members posting 6 losing tips in a row will soon put an end to that username