Basketsim outage

Dear managers,

Basketsim.com has been off-line since Wednesday. The information up to know is that adiego is trying his best to solve the problem but the host (nexpoint web hosting) is down and their support is not very responsive. There is discussion going on in the basketsim facebook page as well: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Basketsim/308116441660.

Hopefully the problem will be resolved and everything will get back to normal. If there are any important news I will report them in the blog as well.

25/8/2012 14:40 CET Update: There is no significant progress. According to adiego he was promised by the web hosting company that the problem will be resolved in 24 hours (starting from Saturday 01:48) which means that we have to way until Sunday 26/8 morning. But I don't want to get your hopes up because the particular web hosting company had a lot of problems and all of its customers suffer a similar problem so solving everything in 24 hours is optimistic. (But of course we definitely hope to happen..!)

3/9/2012 17:56 CET Update: As of today there has been no substantial progress.

9/9/2012 17:55 CET Breaking (Good) News: Copying from the facebook group:
The latest news from Adiego:
- backups of the http and small db tables were completed
- the big tables are waiting, but that cannot be done without superuser priviledges, so waiting for nexpoint response and hoping for that one last help
- also, i'm ordering a new server right now, all potential providers were examined into extreme details (reviews, uptime, performance, quality etc) and finally i was able to make a pick and i'm sure it's a great one!
- as soon as I get my SU priviledges back, I will complete the backups, move the site and then get it online on new server
- new sever should be extra fast, so there will be at least something positive coming from this situation :)
- all data should remain intact, only the match reports (texts only) will be missing for all past matches

I'm hoping for some development today already, when I receive new server, I'll start uploading data there (everything that is already backuped)

11/9/2012 19:12 CET Breaking (Good) News: It seems that the patience starts paying off. The basketsim.com domain is now under adiego's administration and soon we will see something on the page according to the facebook group.

Installing basketfox in Chrome v21

Dear friends, One recent change in how Chrome extensions work makes us change how we install the add-on. Starting from Chrom v21, in order to install the add-on (in fact any add-on) from the *.crx file you have to drag and drop the file in the extensions page (see an example).

Updated Financial Tool

Financial Tool is now updated to be integrated with financial pages from the game.

If you are in your team finances you can find a link back to the Financial Tool which copies the team's information.

Once the data is copied you need to verify the values. 

You should pay attention to the following boxes:

• New weekly fans (how many new fans come or leave every week)
• 50.000 and 25.000 youth (which ranges of weeks you pull a youth)
• College (whether you do a college investment and how big)
• Cup matches (how many cup matches and how far your team may go)
• League level (what is the league level of your team)
• Estimated position (what is the estimated position in the league)

Clarification for the cup matches: 

• If you play in a country with 5 levels then you participate in 10 weeks cup.
• If you play in a country with 4 levels then you participate in 9 weeks cup.
• If you play in a country with 3 levels then you participate in 8 weeks cup.

A few words about Basketfox 1.20.9

Recently, I updated Basketfox to version 1.20.9 with some interesting changes.The update log can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/basketfox/wiki/UpdateLog and the download (for those who don't update automatically) can be done from here http://code.google.com/p/basketfox/downloads/list. 

One thing that was bothering me lately was to know how many weeks each youth team member has without having to sit down and calculate with my head. Once I built the season calendar (notice the S16, W7 by your team's name on the top left corner?) it was easy to calculate the maximum remaining weeks so if you go to the page of a player from your youth team you will see in orange his remaining training weeks.

Another important feature is the prompt to submit your training data! I know that it looks a bit funny but your data are more than needed to have a clear image about how fast our players train. The plan is to gather enough data so the inaccuracy of WR does not affect us any more (remember? we used to have exact WR with the previous forumla!). Up to now, only in a few days of operation I have gathered more than 300 players data but we need more data! That's why the submit button is located in a way that with two clicks you can submit your data and help BSGoodies. With future updates I will keep you posted about these results. Let me remind you that this is a continuation of this effort a while back: http://bsgoodies.blogspot.ch/2011/09/call-for-training-data.html. Back then it was really difficult to gather data and in fact only a handful of managers copied-pasted all their team's data, which lead me to think how I can help this process. So, that's why I came up with an easier way to submit your data through the "Submit" button! Let me finish this paragraph with a big Thanks! to all managers who support my effort!

I would like to finish this post by mentioning the last cool new feature of BF 1.20.9 which is the maximum differences in a match report. If you see the entire report of any match you will notice a new box on the right hand-side entitled "Max differences". There you can see the maximum difference each team managed during the game (and if there several times that a team had the max difference, you see the most recent).

Enjoy BasketFox and, again, a big Thanks! for your support!

New call for training data

With the last versions of Basketfox (from 1.20.6 and on) we enable the managers to easily submit their data to our database regarding our effort to finalize the corresponding between age, WR and training speed.

With the new version of Basketfox (soon to be available: 1.20.7) the users will be prompted to submit their coach training contribution. This step is crucial since the coaches give a maximum +0.5 in training and we have to subtract the exact number before we do any more calculations.

The plan is to have enough data for all ages and WR ranges and come up with a clear mapping between the pair of WR, age and the training speed. Having that calculated we will be able to predict future training speed for a player, thus allowing for an elaborate estimation of his skill in the future assuming training intensities and weekly appearances.

I would like to ask for your understanding as with the new version of BasketFox you will be prompted again to submit your players and your coaches (in order to match them).

BSGoodies

Countries in Basketsim

Teams per country in Basketsim as of June 2012.

Season Update before Season 16

It's time for the basketsim season update!

If you visit our website spend some time to read about the features of basketfox in my posts:

See here for the most recent updates, and here and here for earlier updates.

Call for newEV data

Dear all,

the new EV is here, so is the question of what is the new formula between the newEV, age, predicted wage and working rate.
In order to calculate it please submit these data in the form below.

the BSGoodies team.

Update: This call is closed.

Call for training data

Dear managers,

The previous call for data resulted in several interesting data points which will be summarized soon in a separate post. As you can see from the older we are in the position to have a relatively clear idea about the training speed for a given age and WR but we do not have yet a closed formula.

We need more data (and believe me I am doing my best with my team since each year we have new data - ages are increased by 1) to have better results, so I prepared an easier way to give me your data.

In the excelsheet that you can find here (in xlsx format) (press here for the xls format and here for the ods format) you see a table with 10 rows and several columns. I am asking - whoever is interested and willing - to provide his training data as follows:

• Make sure you are a supporter
• Make sure you trained 40h 
• Edit the green cells:
• TEAM: please fill in your manager name (in order to be able to ask you if there is an error for example).
• Player: if you want write the player's name (optional)
• 40h: please  fill in  your training speed as you see in the players page. (if it is positive omit the "+" and use dot as the decimal symbol).
• EV: please  fill in the EV of the player (omitting the dots).
• PW: please fill in the predicted wage  (omitting the dots).
• Csenior: please fill in the coach's ability to train senior players.

When you are done please submit your excel.

New features in Basketfox

Check out the the main post for the updated links.


Updates for BasketFox 1.19 (for Chrome and Firefox)

• New feature: BSGoodies arena proposal and link to submit data
• If the player is top 10 we urge him (with a red link) to submit his data
• New feature: In the physical training page BMI and a table with all the details (weight increase/decrease and tiredness) per focus and type of physical training

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Updates for BasketFox 1.18.6 (for Chrome and Firefox)

• Debugging and beautification of the previous features.
• Add also seasons that each title was acquired.

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Updates for BasketFox 1.18.4 (for Chrome and Firefox)

• Add list of past winners in National Cups.
• And a very very cool feature for Club History page. Just visit it!

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Minor debugging for BasketFox 1.18.2 (for Chrome and Firefox)

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Updates for BasketFox 1.18.1 (for Chrome and Firefox)

• Some debugging.
• Added country stats for fair play cup, which is cool :) because you can see in each round how many teams per country are - for every season!

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Updates for BasketFox 1.18 (for Chrome and Firefox)

• The versions for Chrome and Firefox are now in sync and the same numbering is going to be used from now on.
• There are several new features as well:
• For Supportes when they see the averages per skill in the main page the real skill sum is computed.
• In CS and CWS the aggregate titles per country are presented as well.
• In Youth Team page if there is a player with unassigned a pop-up window alerts the manager (it can be disabled in the options for both versions).

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Updates for BF-FF 1.17.0 and BF-GC 1.17.24.

• In "Sponsors" page BF shows the sponsors after taxes after the arrow.
• NEW FEATURE: When a player is injured in (i) the main page, (ii) the player page, (iii) the players page an estimation of healing time based on the medical provided in the preferences (default is 5).

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Debug for BF-FF 1.15.0 and BF-GC 1.17.21.

• The "country stats" feature is improved so now is available for a series of statistics in the supporter stats page and the order is fixed for all cases. 

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Debug with BF-FF 1.14.4 and BF-GC 1.17.19.

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Updates for BF-FF 1.14.0 and BF-GC 1.17.15.

• NEW FEATURE: Add the number of teams per country still in the competition for CS & CWS (and option to disable it).
• Prediction of WR is disabled since after the new EV it does not work any more.

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Debug with BF-GC 1.17.14.

• Debug the multiview scoreboards after recent updates.
• For Google Chrome: Add options to disable multiview scoreboards.
• For Google Chrome: Shuffle options to make them clearer.

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Debug with  BF-FF 1.13.2 and BF-GC 1.17.11.

• Bug for future work-rate for youth players.
• Real WR for players is disabled because EV is changed and we do not have the new formula yet.

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Debug with  BF-FF 1.13.1 and BF-GC 1.17.10.

• Bug solved with minimum and maximum level of trained skills added in players page.

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New features with  BF-FF 1.13.0 and BF-GC 1.17.9.

• Minimum and maximum level of trained skills added in players page.
• Make the Salary sum and average look nicer in players page.
• For Google Chrome: Debugging at score pop-ups.

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Debug and new feature with  BF-FF 1.12.0 and BF-GC 1.17.7.

• Bug solved: Prediction of youth player WR was not showing after recent changes.
• NEW feature: In players page the total and average skill of the skills which are trained are shown!

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Debug player page with BF-FF 1.11.0 and BF-GC 1.17.5.

• Bug solved: After the new layout the skill bar was not showing.

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Debug national team pages for coaches with BF-FF 1.10.0 and BF-GC 1.17.4.
FOR NATIONAL COACHES

• A bug was solved: When one player was injured the skill-bars did not show.

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Default values for preferences solved for BF-FF with version 1.9.0.

• It does not affect already setup BF installations. Every new BF installation will have by default enabled all features.

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Important updates for Basketsim. BF-FF 1.8.0 and BF-GC 1.17.3.

• Some important bugs (mainly about youth team presentation) were resolved.
• Several options where added in Basketfox for Firefox.
• A different way to present player stats is introduced.
• This feature can be disabled for both Firefox and Chrome in case you do not like it.

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Cool new feature for BF-FF 1.6.2 and BF-GC 1.16.2.

• When you are at the stats of a player you can see as well:
• points per 40 minutes
• assists per turnover ratio
• steals per turnover ratio
• economy per game (equal to AS+ST+BL-TO per game)
• TENDEX (equal to rating per minute)
• Moreover, in the Chrome version the notification for game scores now have a link inside in order to  open the game with one click! 

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New updates for BF-FF 1.5.3 and BF-GC 1.15.9.

• A bug causing future WR to be always black in FF is solved.

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New updates for BF-FF 1.5.1 and BF-GC 1.15.7.

• A bug causing future WR not to be presented in Firefox is solved.
• A bug with youth team for non-supporters is solved.

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New updates for BF-FF 1.4.1 and BF-GC 1.15.5.

• TENDEX in Team Stats page is added. TENDEX is the first standardized performance metric for basketball players and its equal to the rating per minute. You can read more for the TENDEX for teams here in the GalanisSportsData website (link temporarily deactivated).

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New updates for BF-FF 1.3.1 and BF-GC 1.15.2.

• future WR is again visible after adjustment to the new layout of basketsim. 
• Moreover, the exact future WR is now red to draw the attention of the manager 

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New updates for BF-FF 1.3.0 and BF-GC 1.15.0.
FOR NATIONAL COACHES

• support for national team and u18 pages for (works only in English)
• player skill bar
• BMI
• numeric value of skills
• summarization tables of lineup

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New updates for BF-FF 1.1.17 and BF-GC 1.13.4.

• notifications in multivew for Basketfox on Chrome.
• debugging

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Dear BS managers,

Latest updates for Basketfox include:

• add two summary tables in players page (Skillsum and Skill per position)
• add a summary table in youth players page (age, wage and WR)
• add player skillbar in playerstats/career stats/transfer history

Only in Chrome:

• Game score notifications (a notification popup with the score when a background tab is on a live game page or on multiview page). Very cool!!

Enjoy!
BSGoodies

PS: As always the links are maintained in the main post.