It’s been awhile
22 days to be exact(ish). During that time I’ve actually written a few other rants and had dozens more floating around in my head. Sadly, most of them were either too *mathy* or they were too offensive to some (primarily stupid people). One thing I’ve learned over the years is that for many it’s more about how you say something than what you actually say. That could actually be it’s own rant, but I’ll save that for another time. Instead, I’d like to take a few minutes to update everyone on various site related things. I can’t promise that I won’t slip up and insult stupid people, but I’ll try reasonably hard not to.
In a week or two
There are a lot of things I’m currently working on. There are the previously mentioned rants that I hope to revise into a more acceptable format. I still feel as though a lot of people don’t fully understand how the site works or why an arbitrary ranking system is of much use. My hope is that this rant will be the first in a series of more timely rants that help explain what is going on and why it is being done in such a way.
In addition to the rants progress continues to be made on the next big site feature. The fighter compare feature seems to be working well and most seem happy with it. There are several tweaks I’m going to make to it and I welcome additional suggestions. At this point though my development time has shifted to this other feature. Once I can come up with a super clever name for it like “fighter compare” I’ll speak more about it.
All I need
I am thankful for those that have helped me improve the site thus far and I welcome additional help. Here are a couple of things you can do to help me improve the site that are guaranteed to be better than watching “Twilight” or putting a sharp poker in your eye. OK, not sure it’ll be better than the poker, but definitely better than Twilight.
One of the biggest challenges faced remains accurate information. I go to great lengths to ensure the information on the site is both as plentiful and as accurate as possible. If you see something that is incorrect please let me know. Whether it’s a missing fight/fighter or the incorrect order of fights from a grand prix. It’s important to remove any and all misinformation on the site as fast as possible. To the fighters/promoters reading, please feel free to contact me directly with any fighter/event information that needs to be added or updated.
Another thing I’m working on now that I could use some input on is some sort of system metric. I recently (22ish days ago) talked about expected win percentage and site accuracy. What I would like to do is devise a stat that represents just how accurate the system and parameters currently used on the site are. I’ve got a few ideas, but nothing good enough that I wouldn’t trade it for a hot redhead.
Ideally the stat would allow someone at a glimpse to see how changing one parameter impacted the overall results of the system. I often make special results for people based upon different criteria than the main site uses and it’d be great to have a standardized way of telling how the changed version varied from the currently used version. It’d also obviously prove useful in helping me decide which system changes to push to the main site.
Finally, I’m in the process of adding an FAQ section to the site. If there are questions you’ve had (or still have) that you think others might also have, please let me know.
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