dev diary #59 | Interface Update: Games and Standings

[TuscanSota]

Hey everyone,

 

Here is a quick overview of the new features on the interface:

 

- Regular season matchups are now stored on the interface

- The API will now calculate the standings at the end of each week once games have simmed

- Team and Player Stats are now being stored on the interface

- Revamped the Game information now displayed on the landing page

- Fixed an issue where users could not see full team needs on Recruiting Overview page

- Added some margins at the bottom of the RecruitOverview page for users with smaller resolutions and screen views

 

Landing Page Update: Games

If you go to the interface now, you will find three new cards by your team's logo on the interface. These cards will carry data for the following games:

- Your previous game and results

- Current Match Up

- Next week's match up

 

For those with a bye-week such as myself, the game information will be displayed as such. However, as we get more along into the season, your games will look like this:

 

Each card will display your opposing team's logo; whether your matchup is at home or away; who you're coaching against, and what kind of game you will be playing (Conference vs Non-Conference vs Divisional). The previous game match up will be the only card to properly display results of the game played, and will either be green or red to signify if your team won or lost. We cannot get games results to pop up in specific timeslots at this time; but I'm hoping we can have a result like that in the near future.

 

Nothing is currently done for rivalry matchups, conference championships, bowl games, or playoff games but perhaps we can see a change in the future for this.

 

Which leads into the next section...

 

Interface and Statistics

@Rocketcan and I have worked extensively on getting the API to connect to the SimEngine. We can both confidently say now that the engine will not only get game data to sim games -- it will now send the results back to the API, and store it within our DB. This will be used in a new update where users will be able to view player and team statistics for their team during the season. The ETA on this update will be in about a month's time.

 

I want to give a huge shoutout to @PoopyRhinoPickle and @Piercewise1 for helping with getting together the game information for the 2022 season. I could not have done this without them, and I am happy that we were able to get results out in a swift manner.

 

If you encounter any issues with the new update, please post them here in the Interface Feedback Thread.

 

 

~Toucan

[alexfall862]

Dude, that is a huge task to get the game data together. Shoutout to @PoopyRhinoPickle and @Piercewise1 for making that happen.