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What's being worked on right now?

• reliablity of automated update script is pretty good now. check the github for updates
• add widgets to this index page (eye candy helps people stay on page!)
• rework bests to remove data structure limitations of source database
• Lots of work to do on meet pages (splits/paces need to be worked on).
• SharmaCast™ (Historical weather where available)
• Pertaining to meets, there are still some edge cases, the most recent challenge being 2-day long meets, where some events were held on one day. This requires reformatting all of the meet data. Eugh.
• The calendar, and the rest of the site could use some styling. Default is ok, but uninspiring.
• I am still working out how important mouse hover should be considering mobile use.

What's already working?

• All the athlete data has been collected. Each athlete's events are viewable in a fancy segmented table, including some bests in most events. Two charts are being worked on.
• The meet data is all collected.
• The calendar is really nice, and I'm proud of my work.
• The search bar is very quick in suggesting athletes, and they can be selected thru keyboard actions/mouse clicks

What's not working?

• Pace/split dropdowns in any given meet
• Typing certain characters into the URL for /meet/ and /athlete/ doesn't redirect properly because my attempts at PHP redirects have resulted in accidentally DDOS-ing my own website with recursive header redirects.

What's planned?

• Simply put, lots of fancy charts and other ways to filter, organize, and visualize all the data that's been put in.
• Caching things that shouldn't be recalculated, but currently are.
• Being able to see the same meet but from a year prior or the next year
• Being able to quickly view the girls events on a boy's event page (and vice versa), as they're technically stored as different "meets"
• Making connections between athletes based on their progression in key events (5k's, for example), and connections based on how many times they've raced with someone else
• Being able to compare multiple athletes
• A map of all our meet locations.

What's funny and broken?

• Check out Christopher Helmer's page and Ty Baskerville's page for some funny errors. I believe the coaches marked the wrong athlete, causing them to run events in 13th grade, and 1th [sic] grade. I am considering making corrections to the data, but I might leave it the way it is.

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To-do

Header/Navbar

• Add bests tab when available
• add more dropdown for calendar and coming map and compare
• move breadcrumbs down to main page content?

Homepage

• I would like to add some eye-catching graphs. On the agenda.

!Athletes

• optimize to only display elements in viewport. 12-point chart is currently resource-intensive
• adjust scrolling behavior to be smoother (factor in scroll speed?)
• should remember user state when jumping back to athlete page (add super long element during load?)

!Athlete

• flesh out personal bests tab - determine percentiles of stuff, see below
• percentile of class (class of '19)
• percentile of gender all time (display "top 20%", show chart, maybe dot plot?)
• style second chart
• suggested athletes to be based on
• first name (similar michaels, for example)
• last name (likely siblings, or just coincidences)
• shared meet count (how many times have they probably been on the same bus together)
• shared event count (how many times have they been in the same exact event)
• obtained a similar PR *during their same school year (ex. both ran a 5:10 mile softmore year)
• the reason an athlete was suggested will show up when they are hovered over (or click an (i) icon on mobile)

Meets

• do not load placeholder elements until scroll
• sharmacast + access other historical apis
• continue to collect location list
• consider properly implemented duplicate grouping

!Meet

• add tabs for boys/girls if passes grouping
• add athletes tab
• self-calculate pace for cross country events, consider for certain track events
• display splits somehow, including in relays (even if rare)
• properly calculate coach annotations, add display for track type (banked?)
• only show coach's annotation if does not have location + date, also remove such when showing
• that also indicates if this is a 2 day meet, must consider
• fix meter conversion
• error in previous PR calculation when seconds = 0 (ex. 1:00, 2:00)
• finalize mobile styling
• align tables within same event

!Bests

• properly sort events by recent athletes!
• flesh out server-side filtering
• Decide if should use complicated url formatting, or just rely on good ol question marks
• investigate how performances are labeled - why does it ignore some erroneous data, ex Andy Passantiano's 29 second 800 meter relay split?
• incorporate course IDs to enable separate pages for individual courses

Compare

• create
• compare two (or more?!) athlete's bests
• If it's only two athletes, should be special UI that allows cooler looking comparison.
• More than two should sideways scroll like amazon comparisons

Map

• create
• dolorun has given me knowledge, it is time to shine
• handle rewrite case for specific location

Calendar

• can style
• prepare to handle 2-day meets
• consider strict grouping
• somehow change style of popup to differenciate from the others, people instinctively try to hover, and fail.
• change color of girls/boys/both to match meets page on all elements

Data

• add graphics
• expand on how one can view the original data on every (relevant) page

Search

• be less ambitious
• search meet locations for string
• search explicit "boys" / "girls"
• handle explicit date formats such as 12-03-12 and december 12th
• include pagination for any section that has more than 10 results, searching for "i" could spell doom trying to load 3 different lists