New AFL site (suggestions, complaints and compliments)

[Alphanumeric]

Sandy can you tell me why the player stats list in the GameDayLive doesn't update automatically.

Also why isn't it made bigger so we don't have to scroll down to see the stats of the remaining players.

 

[dont bowl there]

Hey Alpha didnt you say Sandy told you that HTML stats version would be around in April? Is this still going through Sandy?

 

[Alphanumeric]

Hey Alpha didnt you say Sandy told you that HTML stats version would be around in April? Is this still going through Sandy?

Yup, I was told April.

 

[happy_eagle]

Hey Alpha didnt you say Sandy told you that HTML stats version would be around in April? Is this still going through Sandy?

i hope so

quick, simple, easy and html not FLASH

 

[red+black]

Two hours after the game, I'm thinking something just might be missing here:

 

[the croucher]

Hi Everyone,

Few responses to attend to since last week:

Croucher on page 73 makes a comment about contacting the AFL direct…
I’m so sorry Croucher, I swear I pasted the correct URL to get in touch with the AFL … it’s actually http://telstra.com/subscriptions/afl/contactus/feedbackchoice.asp

For reference purposes, the HELP link in the footer of afl.com.au takes you straight to a series of “feedback” choices, including the AFL.
<snip>

Cheers,
Sandy

Sorry Sandy, but NO IT DOES NOT !

It takes me to a telstra.com page for subscriptions and the text is:

telstra.com

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The site states that it is the official website of the Australian Football League.

A site which was designed and managed in a professional manner would have a feedback choice which may be a button showing as the words Contact Us or whatever variation of that is chosen. Clicking on that should take a user to *&%*@afl.com.au
not Telstra.

If I am at a Telstra.com page and sought to make an enquiry about some aspect of communications, common sense suggests that clicking on a button titled Contact Us ought not take me to a football site.

Why should I put up with a page that is supposedly about football yet frustratingly attempts to direct my enquiries to a communications company ?

 

[Borgsta]

Borgsta on page 73 talks about support for Opera…
The original brief was IE … once we launched we added Firefox and have done a bunch of work to make sure it’s a supported browser, and it will be from now on. Opera just isn’t, and I can’t see it being that way for the foreseeable future. Choose IE or FF.

Nah, doesn't matter. I'll just choose a good AFL website and I can't see myself using the official AFL site in the forseeable future. I choose

http://stats.rleague.com/afl/afl_index.html
http://finalsiren.com/Default.asp OR
http://www.footywire.com/

 

[Benevolent Ert]

Now 12 hours after the game - and here are the stats



Meanwhile, over at finalsiren.com

We just want the info - we don't care how pretty the site looks!

 

[tandino]

Now 12 hours after the game - and here are the stats



Meanwhile, over at finalsiren.com

We just want the info - we don't care how pretty the site looks!

I mean really, how can you justify a professional site coming up with this "quality" again and again.

That finalsiren.com is tops, gives you all the information you want without any tricky shit.

 

[Benevolent Ert]

Stats are finally up now, but is there any way we can cull the 3 emergencies from the list - they've been there every week, a row of zero's

 

[red+black]

Stats are finally up now, but is there any way we can cull the 3 emergencies from the list - they've been there every week, a row of zero's

I'm going to have to disagree with you, sort of. There should be a way to distinguish between an emergency and a player that had no touches, so I suggest put emergencies at the bottom. Separate them with a solid line or something to make it obvious.

If afl.com.au was any good, I should be able to go back and check who was an emergency in a particular game. For example, I might want to see if any emergencies from the Collingwood v West Coast draw in the 1990 QF played in the replay. I know that's a longshot for afl.com.au, but theoretically, it's a stat I should be able to look up.

 

[- PC -]

If afl.com.au was any good, I should be able to go back and check who was an emergency in a particular game. For example, I might want to see if any emergencies from the Collingwood v West Coast draw in the 1990 QF played in the replay. I know that's a longshot for afl.com.au, but theoretically, it's a stat I should be able to look up.

Going to have a slight go here... yes the site should be better informed.

But it seems to me that some of these obscure facts can be better left to those who want to offer an alternative service.

Or indeed why not start writing them down now yourself? I know of many on the AFC board who have spreadsheets set up for the whole Crows history ( yes it is short ) but most stats pre 1991 are only basic anyway

 

[red+black]

I think the point is that afl.com.au misses the ball in most areas.

Sure my particular point was obscure, but the site can't even tell me who kicked the most goals last year.

Content is key, and afl.com.au gets a big F

 

[dont bowl there]

Can anyone tell me how i can see match reports from different rounds of this year? I was looking at work yesterday and couldnt find them.

 

[red+black]

Sandy, I'll keep on harping about this until it's fixed:

Can you tell me what value the scoreworm is? As a viewer, what is it supposed to tell me? Essendon were up a little, then Hawthorn were up a little, now Hawthorn are up a little more.

Either you change the scale of the X-axis or get rid of the scoreworm altogether.

 

[- PC -]

Can you tell me what value the scoreworm is?

Its pretty, its new wave, its high tech, its the bees knees , its modern.

It also took a programmer 40 work hours to do it and a need to justify his/her existence

 

[red+black]

Sandy, Are we 21 minutes into the 4th quarter, or as per the scoreworm, has the game entered a 5th quarter?

 

[- PC -]

Sandy, Are we 21 minutes into the 4th quarter, or as per the scoreworm, has the game entered a 5th quarter?

Its the Buddy factor

 

[red+black]

Its the Buddy factor

Not wrong, he creamed us, and he creamed the scoreworm.

 

[ralphwiggum]

Not wrong, he creamed us, and he creamed the scoreworm.

The new format score worm sux,
they may as well make it +1000 to -1000

 

[sldavey]

Can anyone tell me how i can see match reports from different rounds of this year? I was looking at work yesterday and couldnt find them.

Hey you

On the dashboard look for the ROUND NUMBER eg ROUND 2. There's a scrolling bar just above. Pick the round you want and off you go

Cheers
S

 

[sldavey]

Its the Buddy factor

Hey PC

Noted. I'll log with the team and ask for a formal response as to what we're doing with the scoreworm.

S

 

[Paul.]

Sandy, I'll keep on harping about this until it's fixed:

Can you tell me what value the scoreworm is? As a viewer, what is it supposed to tell me? Essendon were up a little, then Hawthorn were up a little, now Hawthorn are up a little more.

Either you change the scale of the X-axis or get rid of the scoreworm all together.

It displays how shite the website really is... haha

 

[Carnport]

The new format score worm sux,
they may as well make it +1000 to -1000

Yep, how difficult would it be to have a sliding points scale on the right that increased as and only if the margin opened up. Sloppy work, smacks of lack of attention to detail, lack of pride in the job. I get the feeling with this whole debacle that most of what will surely be a huge bill that the AFL has paid will have been creamed off the top rather than having been put into resourcing the individual projects.

 

[red+black]

Sandy, I created two graphs from the first half scores of the Hawthorn v Essendon game. The first one is similar to what we find on afl.com.au, the bottom one is what afl.com.au should be presenting. See the difference?

From the second one, I can easily deduce that Essendon controlled most of the first quarter, getting out to a lead of about 20 before Hawthorn came back with 2 late goals, while Essendon kicked a late goal themselves. In the second quarter, Hawthorn quickly turned the game around with a stream of goals, taking the lead at about the 5 minute mark and getting out to a lead of about 20 points. Essendon kicked a couple late ones to enter half time about 10 points down. The afl.com.au scoreworm does not paint such a picture.

The prosecution rests.