Thursday, April 10, 2008

Team and Player Direct Links - made for Search Engines

Players and Teams now have dedicated URLs to their respective webpages, without having to log in first, then navigate to the page they want.

This is ideal for Search Engines, because now Google, Yahoo, etc can index your individual page, and you can even email it to all your friends, bookmark it or better yet, send it to scouts or recruiters.

To get your link for Player profiles check out the screenshot below and click on "Public Profile Link". It should open a new window and the url in the address bar should be something like http://nfl.playerstreak.com/?p=172 <-- That's TomBrady's profile page.

For direct team webpage links check out the the screenshot below. Click on the "Team URL" button and should open a window with a URL similar to : http://nfl.playerstreak.com?t=114 <-- That's the Patriots team home page.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Schedules to Excel

You can now export Schedules to Excel. Just look for the excel icon on the Schedule view screens. you can even filter the data by team before you export it.
Also, on all the team websites, you can export a team schedule as well.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Schedulizer Gets a Face Lift - Calendar Style













The Schedulizer Grid has been replaced with a drag and drop Calendar. You have Full Screen Views, Month Views, Week Views, and Day Views. You can basically drag a calendar entry to any of the views, and you can even use the resize option to change the start and end times.


Here's a little excerpt from the Help :

To Create A Game:

1. Click / Drag on the calendar to set the time duration. ex: 9:00am to 10:00am
2. Drag teams from the left hand side bar to the Home Team and Away Team boxes
3. Drag a location from the right hand side bar to the Location box
4. Set a date and time with at the top of the screen with the date and time controls
5. Click Save Game

To Edit a Game:
1. Double click on a calender entry.
2. Follow steps in "To Create A Game" above from step 2.

Score Keeping
To enter the Score Keeping area, Double click on a calendar entry Click the "Scores and Stats" button to enter the score keeping screen

Friday, January 25, 2008

Google Calendar View


A new view has been has been added to the Schedule and Scores tab. The Calendar View. You may see some similarities between this calendar and Google calendar.

You can sort the calendar by month, week or day view and you can even filter by specific teams. The color of the calendar entry is determined by the home team's color.

If you click on a calendar entry, it will take you to the Score and Statistics of that game.

We have big ideas for this Calendar and we may even replace the default grid view on each Team's page.

We are also contemplating using some of the advanced drag and drop features for the Schedulizer

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Adding Players To Your Team


You can add players to your team under the Team Admin tab, then clicking on the "Players and Team" tab.

You can either create NEW players that will automatically be added to your team. A confirmation email will be sent to the newly created player so they can login to the site.

OR you can search the entire league for players and ASK them to join your team.

Why would you want to do that? Well, its a good way to search for free agents, or just add your friends to your team so they can participate in ChalkTalk on your team page.

An email will be sent to the player asking them if they wish to join your team. If they accept, they will show up in the grid in the above screen shot.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Just look for the green question marks

Where ever your see this question mark on the site, you can click it for some context specific help...So if you are on the League News Page, and you want to know how to add some League News, just click the green question mark and poof, you get a nice little yellow box telling you how to do it!

What a novel concept....help on the screen you actually need it on.

Team Statistics Keepers


League Administrators can now have a new role to assign to members : TEAM STATISTICS KEEPER. Team Statistics Keepers can input player statistics for each game.

This alleviates the need for League Administrators to enter stats for the whole league, so now they can delegate these tasks to 1 or more people on a team. The Team Statistics Keeper can be anyone, they do not have to be a players, so its perfect for Coaches, Fans, and Parents.

Here's how to enter the stats for your team:

1. Login

2. Goto you team page
3. Click on the Team Schedule tab
4. Click on the "Enter Stats" column for the game you want.
5. You can only enter Player Statistics for your team.

You will note in the picture above there is a "Save" icon and a "Delete" icon next to each persons name. This feature allows you to quickly update player stats for players who may not have any stats but still play in a game. It also gives you an overall view of the team stats.