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Home court advantage in the finals

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26731.11 in reply to 26731.10
Date: 4/29/2008 1:27:25 PM
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That's a really bad solution.


It was a bad problem with no good solutions. I can't really think of a better way to have dealt with it, myself.

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26731.12 in reply to 26731.11
Date: 4/29/2008 1:30:07 PM
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Stop the simulations and fix the problem as it was know in advance. Easy.

From being a alight favourite to advance I am now suddenly in really bad position. If Im lucky I still win today, but that is not likeley at all.

Last edited by chespirito at 4/29/2008 1:31:18 PM

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26731.13 in reply to 26731.11
Date: 4/29/2008 1:40:20 PM
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Furthermore, as they knew it a couple of days in advance the least they could have made an announcement (in red of course) where they notified about this problem.

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26731.14 in reply to 26731.12
Date: 4/29/2008 1:41:03 PM
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Stop the simulations and fix the problem as it was know in advance. Easy.


I think that was rejected since although it was known in advance, rescheduling the fixtures meant removing existing orders, and so teams that had already set their orders and didn't login again (or did login but didn't re-check their orders) would end up with default lineups and so really be screwed. (See the BB reply in (26731.6).)

Like I said, I don't think there were good solutions. I think the one chosen minimized the total grief, but some users (including you) had to end up taking a hit.

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26731.15 in reply to 26731.13
Date: 4/29/2008 1:43:12 PM
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Furthermore, as they knew it a couple of days in advance the least they could have made an announcement (in red of course) where they notified about this problem.


I agree that an announcement was called for.

It was not known a couple of days in advance. Taking the posts above at face value, it looks like the time was at least as short as 14 hours, and probably less in some countries. That's not enough time to expect affected users to reset their lineups, IMO.

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26731.16 in reply to 26731.15
Date: 4/29/2008 1:58:53 PM
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It was not known a couple of days in advance. Taking the posts above at face value, it looks like the time was at least as short as 14 hours, and probably less in some countries. That's not enough time to expect affected users to reset their lineups, IMO.
No, but you must admit that chances are that a lot more managers would have done so if there at least wa some kind of information.

Right now I feel that it really sucks that I have payed supporter (it will probably go ower though), and that's something I never felt in all the time I have played Hattrick.

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26731.17 in reply to 26731.16
Date: 4/29/2008 2:12:22 PM
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Our apologies to all users who have been adversely affected by all this. Indeed, had we had days instead of hours to notice and fix this bug, we would have been able to switch home and away properly. Unfortunately, this would have been impossible without affecting orders already set under the incorrect premise that a team would be at home when it should be away, or vice versa, and there is of course no guarantee that the users that had submitted orders already would be around to submit new ones. We simply couldn't make that switch.

As far as numbers affected, there are 47 finals matchups with at least one human-controlled team affected, and the bug only occurred on leagues with matches that start before 2:00PM EDT (8:00PM in continental Europe).

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26731.18 in reply to 26731.17
Date: 4/30/2008 8:56:22 AM
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How come you did not send a message about this before the first game? Now you have done it for the reamining series, but frankly I cannot understand why you did not do it right away...

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26731.19 in reply to 26731.16
Date: 4/30/2008 9:16:46 AM
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Right now I feel that it really sucks that I have payed supporter (it will probably go ower though), and that's something I never felt in all the time I have played Hattrick.

I guess you've never had Clubhouse in HT then. :-)

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26731.20 in reply to 26731.19
Date: 4/30/2008 11:41:56 AM
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I think they had some campaign, so I had it for free a couple of weeks, but I didn't really like it, so I didn't use it.

But I have been through the famous dcember 2002 or 2003 when the servers where dowbn for days or was it even weeks?

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26731.21 in reply to 26731.15
Date: 5/1/2008 3:51:47 AM
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Furthermore, as they knew it a couple of days in advance the least they could have made an announcement (in red of course) where they notified about this problem.


I agree that an announcement was called for.

It was not known a couple of days in advance. Taking the posts above at face value, it looks like the time was at least as short as 14 hours, and probably less in some countries. That's not enough time to expect affected users to reset their lineups, IMO.

It's not true!
I posted my message on Apr 27th 11PM which is 43 hours before the match.
Nobody answered until one of the managers in my league replied my message 24 hours later and revived the post. I agree that at that time it was too late but almost two days before it's wasn't.

B.T.W. the schedule isn't fixed yet. I still don't have home court advantage in game 3 (I hope it would still be relevant since I lost badly on game 1...)

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