Implemented Season Management vs Pools having their own weeks/games

Im opening this up for discussion as its something I want to do, however, it will effect the past (History), so for those of you that keep historical data, it will probably require some manual updating on your part post upgrade. I won't know the FULL effects on the historical stuff until I really dig into it tho.

This is a much needed change to Pickem IMO. I personally don't care about past season stuff as we have a Hall of Fame thread anyway that contains data from when we did things manual, at Yahoo, at ESPN etc..

Anyway, sound off either way to let me know if its a concern or just do it

 

It is just not possible. The Game Management may APPEAR to look the same on the outside, but it isn't even remotely close to the same inner workings. There is a REASON why Survivor is its OWN addon, and not a pickem pool type. The code required to do things is so drastically different that there was just NO WAY to make things work together. Just the saving a the score of a game is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY different between pickem and survivor. Different things need to happen and they can't happen at the same time together, so its not possible for them to SHARE the same thing. I can't explain it any easier than this without spending several hours explaining code and I am not going to do that lol

 

Trust me, if it is even remotely possible, I WILL (AND DO) find a way to do it as I use this stuff and have to do things the same way as everyone else, so time saving is HUGE for me.

 

Mine really only care about who got 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for a given pool in a given season lol

 

There are user criteria based on historical data such as correct picks, incorrect picks, weekly winners, pool winners etc. Some admins have created trophies or promotions based on this historical data and I have to take that into consideration when doing anything with the addon that effects any current functionality (which is why I asked as losing data DOES effect this functionality).

 

It won't take away any trophy's or promotions that were already awarded, it would just effect any future ones... ie, 500 correct picks and you are 15 away from getting it, then upgrade the addon, it wipes out all history and now you are 500 away from getting it. I HOPE to avoid that, but not sure if I can. I think most will appreciate the more powerful administration vs preserving a couple years worth of historical data that most delete after the season anyway lol

 

two full day's of R&D complete! Its coming along pretty well so far.

 

OK, just a heads up for anyone that is WAITING on this. You should probably just move forward with the current version as its going to take me A LOT longer than expected due to several challenges that I am faced with on this (because of different pool types and spreads etc). I now fully remember WHY I did it the way I did in the first place lol. I fully expect to have a NEW version sometime this year, I just can't promise that it will be ready to use before the NFL regular season. Wished I had better news on this, but its just extremely complex with all the different factors that come into play between pool types and settings vs sharing a game across multiple pools in which team a in Pool 1 wins, yet loses in pool 2 because Pool 2 is against the spread, then the POINTS are different because Pool 1 gives 2 points for a home win where Pool 2 gives .5 points for a home win... so ya, there is some MAJOR complex things that require a lot of complex code that doesn't just write itself.

ya I know... blah blah blah.. just shut up and get it done already lol

PS.. I'll probably push out a maintenance release next week, so if there are any bugs or issues that anyone needs dealt with, let me know ASAP!