As this forum is a bit quiet I thought I would talk about some ideas I am having for future developments on BB-Stats.org and any other web-based stats applications for BuzzerBeater
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As I have talked to the BBs about their increasing load on the main site I suggested the community of developers using the BBAPI could really help take the load off this site if they had some better tools and guides on how to do this as efficiently as possible.
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I would like to suggest that we create a bigger and better community for developing our techniques.
I think it is safe to say I have one of the biggest BB player databases outside of BB itself with 10 million rows of player information. I can help a lot of people here with databasing techniques.
One thing that I have noticed with Google Analytics is the low usage of Internet Explorer in the BB community (<10%), which means we have the advantage of really pushing the technology frontier by using the latest and greatest techniques to share load.
For example I have a script on BB-Stats that figures out which players should be placed in what positions. Using HTML5 Web Workers I can now offload those calculations to the computer that is viewing that page.
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Who here would like to share a blog where we show our latest and greatest techniques for getting BBAPI information?
The topics we could cover:
- Caching
- Figuring out when we need to update our cache (not just pulling the XML files each time)
- Database indexing
- Site performance tips
etc. etc.