Jason

Monday: 63/100 67/100 11/25 3s 11/25 3s Tuesday: 53/100 63/100 6/25 3s 8/25 3s 14/25 3s 13/25 3s Wednesday: 59/100 72/100 6/25 3s 11/25 3s 6/25 3s 9/25 3s 3/10 3s

Saturday 67/100 65/100 13/25 3s

Thursday: 5/25 3s 2/25 3s 57/100 6/25 3s 12/25 3s 11/25 3s 9/25 3s 59/100 9/25 3s 7/25 3s 9/25 3s Friday: 75/100 73/100 5/25 3s 9/25 3s

58/100 67/100 9/25 3s 12/25 3s 12/25 3s 12/25 3s

64/100 5/25 3s 6/25 3s

69/100 65/100? 30/50 3s 61/100 53/100 23/50 3s

Spent 3 more hours. Now I am done except for changes in 1 skin template bit and testing to be sure I didn't mess up. Not much extra code was needed, but it was looking at the old code and figuring out how to do it which took so long. So I've spent about 8 hours and all the coding from that amount of time only totaled 254 new lines. The main sports file itself is over 14,000 lines, just for reference.

14/25 3s 12/25 3s

Jordyn Wieber won the 2011 American Cup. I forgot to mention it Saturday. Not that any gymnasts come here anymore to read thease anyway, but it's still interesting and I forget if I mentioned it here before, but Jordyn is one I believed would end up very good.

What a headache. When you have so many bracket types and so many ways of handling them it gets complicated. Bottom line is I have now spent about 5 or so hours adding this feature. Now I am down to only 2 functions left to mess with and then testing though. This got very tricky. And since barely anyone here ever does the contests it's kind of going to go to waste unless I sell it to people who want a 68 setup.

Well it's taken me 2 hours to set up the database changes and the php, lang bits, and skin templates for the adding process. That's not including the hours spent thinking about the best way to do it. I would just randomly think it out during everyday life. lol So now I just have to update the user's picking process, the display of it on your page, and the payout part of it. So probably another 1-2 hours then I'm done. It's tricky partly due to the weird new NCAA rules and also due to the weird way I had the existing setyup for tournament brackets to begin with. I had an odd way of handling team #65 so now in this new format teams 65-68 were trickier than they needed to be.

55/100 12/25 3s 68/100

80/100 66/100 10/25 3s 11/25 3s 63/100

73/100 10/25 3s 9/25 3s 61/100 10/25 3s 15/25 3s 18/25 3s 14/25 3s

Wow. Whoever determined the new rules are annoying and weird. I've got to figure this all out. I guess the bottom line is there are two open slots for the final four added teams and two open slots for the worst four teams. So for instance let's say the last 2 slots for teams are for a #12 and a #13. Well then that would mean there would be 5 #12s and 5 #13s. If the final two slots were both for #13s then there would be 6 #13s. Then for the WORST teams there will basically be 6 #16s. Then the winners of those two play in games would cut it to the normal 4. I am mainly posting this as a reminder to myself to wrap my head around how I need to code this. Since the seeds can be DIFFERENT for the final four added teams and there's no way to know what they will be each year I think all I can do is have a page where the admin enters all of the 8 teams involved in playins, desinates numbers for them where it will be known by the database/php where the winners will slide into slots in the bracket, then once the coding is done to slide them into the right slots everything would be the same after that first round. That first round is called the "first four" I think. So assuming I understand this correctly I know what to do. I was stumped for a while because I was thinking what if the last four teams added all have different seeds. But that's impossible. The bottom line is they don't seed them ALL differently. They do their first 34 teams seeded the same as normal. It's teams 35-38 where they have to make them fit into two slots. And so basically they just double the seeds.

Great. Turns out it makes it very annoying to code because they didn't simply let the 15s play the 16s. The new rules are that the final added teams play each other and the final 16s play each other. So there is NOTHING set in stone as to the seeds of the last four added teams. I can't simply declare that the 12 seeds all play each other, the 13s, or any specific seed. So now it has to be set up where the admin is going to have to set which seeds are going to be playing each other. Once it gets to the final 64 everything is the same. So all that changes is the first round.

69/100 68/100 7/25 3s 8/25 3s 73/100 10/25 3s 10/25 3s

58/100

41/100 3s 66/100 74/100 68/100 43/100 3s 23/50 3s 2/5 half court

69/100 69/100 7/25 3s 66/100? 9/25 3s?

69/100 70/100 7/25 3s 13/25 3s 71/100 10/25 3s 11/25 3s 61/100

61/100 8/25 3s 60/100 8/25 3s 67/100 7/25 3s 12/25 3s 74/100

80/100 70/100 8/25 3s

58/100 12/25 3s 8/25 3s 68/100 1/5 half court Stupid ball. It was so tight that it was harder to shoot as well and I couldn't find the normal ball.

yesterday: 57/100 79/100