Well, I guess now that we can authenticate pstat submissions now, I'm braving new territory and doing something a bit more elaborate now...this was inspired by Micchy Boy giving me his pstat file for his playoff run(Live 2005) and I ended up never using it...I constantly suck at keeping promises.
Introducing:
Project Psuedo-Hollinger Playoff Board (or until I can come up with a better name...)
I've been wanting to do this for the longest time, even before John Hollinger became a daily Insider contributor to ESPN but I guess I needed "all the stars to align" I take it if ESPN is forking A LOT of money for his statistical contributions, he must be doing something right and have some credibility...(he's not a mathematical/statistics professor or a former NBA player...basically a former sportswriter from the Northwest USA) As stated in wikipedia:
"Many experts regard the PER as the best all-in-one basketball stat ever developed, though others are still not convinced."
In order for this to work, it requires both the team stat file (tstat) and the player stat file(pstat) in conjunction as
Hollinger's formula is quite sophisticated in comparison to NBA's proficiency formula or the Birdie Board formula. Unfortunately, it also seems like I'll be able to get it about 90% of the way there as his multi-part formula requires knowing the opposing teams stats...and unfortunately these stats aren't kept in live 06(Did this exist in '2004? I could have sworn it did.)
Some thoughts:
No penalties on this board(we'll leave that for the Birdie Board)
pstat/tstat file only need to be submitted at the end of your playoff run.
If anybody smart out there can help me figure out/derive estimated pace adjustment without knowing the opposing teams stat info let me know.
I thought that this would be great as a standard playoff run can easily be around 20 games and that's pretty much the length of some of our Dynasty seasons(29 games) In addition, as the playoffs are where the money time is, it just made sense that we dedicated some of liveGMC to it.
So, I'll need all the encouragement I can get during the coding process...I got the preliminary step done tonight by having the server read all the stats in the team stat file...so we're at least stepping forward in the right direction!
Anybody have a better name for the board than the "Psuedo-Hollinger Playoff Board"????
