On Jan 8, 2008 12:31 PM, Robby Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know how sophisticated you plan for your sim to be, but the > inferred series method can fall down if you use a schedule generator > that creates a more "real-world" schedule where series can be spread > over two weeks, or where there are make up games (that could get > wrapped into a series if it takes place in the same week as another > series, even if there are games for one of the two teams in between > the makeup and original series), etc.
Robby, Actually, the stuff I'm talking about is admin stuff for an already existing league. I'm not that ambitious that I would create a baseball sim using Cake. Check out the site at http://www.ibl.org to get a feel for what we're doing. My team is the Monrovia Madness. > > > Two more random, unsolicited notes: > > IME, doing winner_team_id/winner_score vs. home_score makes it a lot > easier to run various queries later for reporting records and > correlating stats to wins/losses. Already use that info to generate standings, so I've got it covered. > > Out of curiosity, have you looked at the Lahman database and/or > retrosheet.org? > We (meaning the league) use data from Retrosheet to create the card game our league uses. As a further aside, my current employers are a stats data company, and one of our projects is to provide info from Retrosheet to some of our clients. -- Chris Hartjes Internet Loudmouth Motto for 2008: "Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes..." @TheKeyBoard: http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
