Golden Globe awards Press conference is on Sunday. I'm sure if you goto any entertainment website you can find a list of the nominees.

Whaddya think?

Well what's funny is I was just yesterday thinking I need to make it possible to bet on fields like that where there is more than 1 possible winner. I probably would not be able to do it in time for these awards though. It would be tricky. As it is now I have a home team and away team in the DB and so it's easier for the coding. If it had x number of teams/people where x can change, it would be more complicated. I am guessing the way people code that is have each choice all put into the same part of the DB and separate them with a comma or semicolon and then pull them back out, but it would definitely be difficult to figure out. It would be much easier if there were only 2 choices in each one.

I guess I could look at how it is done in the guessing games/challenge system though. Or I could put it up for bet in that system instead of mine becuase that one does allow for multiple ones.

As for NBA games, I just haven't been putting them becauseit doesn't suit betting as well. I will probably start putting some though. Also I was not going nuts adding matchups while the site is so inactive becuase I figured you and I will just get way ahead in points while nobody else is here to possibly gain anything.

Actually I think I know how to do it. When I enter all choices, I could separate them with commas and then use implode/explode. Then the choice you make could be entered into the db, the name itself rather than a number like is done currently. Long story short though I doubt I could get it done by this weekend becuase I have been slower getting things done lately, as I have not felt in the right mood to speed through things.

If nothing else, hopefully I would do it before the Oscars.

Well I know "generally" how to do it, but look the next day or two in case I ama ble to becuase it would suck if I do it and then I am the only one to make the picks.

It's very complicated to decide the best way of putting it in. I could put it in for BETTING ONLY on the categories quite easily. But if it's going to be like a contest, that would be a lot harder. It would be a lot nicer to have it as a contest though for single events like that. I need to figure out the best way to allow multiple contests.

After a lot of work I managed to totally revamp contests/pick games where it can have unlimited ones. As it was only one could be used and when it was finished, I would have had to delete it and make another.

This took a lot of time and effort, so I would say it is 50/50 for me to have a contest for the golden globes up by Sunday Morning. I ran into some bugs so it took even longer to do this other. I am extremely pleased with the changes I made though and I accidentally found another bug unrelated and fixed that.

So now I want to finish up some unfinished business on contests, which should take only an hour or two. Then I can work on allowing bets to have multiple choices instead of home/away teams. I hope I can finish it within 24 hours, but a Memphis game is on and so I will not have indefinite time to work on it.

If I do not complete it, I will make some test picker similar to it this coming week and then for sure have it ready for Oscars. But CHECK Sunday morning to see if I have it up!

I tested my new changes and got them working smoothely. I was holding my breath because I had to make a whole new table and then make it insert a new row for a member when they make a pick on a contest UNLESS they already have made one, then it upodates their row instead of adding a new one, thus only 1 row per person per contest. A little tricky, but it worked great.

Just to be able to change contests from only 1 allowed to infinite allowed at once and the related changes took about 100 lines of coding. Not THAT much, but quite a bit just to make it work with multiple contests.

Later

Almost done. Going to take a little break.

edit: ok I am done, but I am only going to add a low number of things to pick becuase it's ridiculous how categorues are broken up. They don';t even have freakin Best Movie, it's best drama movie, best comedy movie, etc... lol

I will hopefully find 5-10 to add.

If I am the only one to pick, there will be no grand prize. Otherwise I will give a 500 point grand prize. Much higher come Oscar time. This is more a test of my system more than anything else.

Each correct pick will be worth 100 points even if you bet 0, by the way.

As a heads up, soon I may take bets on whether memphis, UNC, or kansas can remain undefeated. Ihave tow ait until after they play today in case someone loses though and also the window for betting would be very small where they can't play again before people bet, obviously.

This thread is for suggesting things and yet it's just me talking to myself.

I put into place everything I need in order to pay double, triple, etc... if you pick an underdog and they win. Also for showing how much a team is favored by, but not necessarily forcing those odds to be in the bet. I am unsure if there is a point to it. Maybe I should just keep it as it's been and if you see odds it means the team must win by more than that. I wanted to give odds as information and then tell whether they matter in the bet or not...

I've done most things I want to do now and honestly it looks like NCAA Tourney Picker will take much less time than I thought. So I bet I could make that as quickly as I did the multiple choice section.... so maybe a couple days.

edit: actually I am thinking of how complicated it will be having that many matchups and somehow tying them together, so it may take longer than 2 days. I don't know.

There is so much info to display on some pages, it's getting frustrating figuring out how to skin it. I may just take longer to even change things becuase it's far from fun trying to reorganize all of that. I somehow have to fit in information on whether odds are being used and also whether an undersdog will give more points.

The NCAA Tournament area will take a while too probably. Just like the Reviews System it is becoming hard to even decide how to change the look. Both of these have a lot of information to display and it never looks the way I want.

This thread is for suggesting things and yet it's just me talking to myself.

I put into place everything I need in order to pay double, triple, etc... if you pick an underdog and they win. Also for showing how much a team is favored by, but not necessarily forcing those odds to be in the bet. I am unsure if there is a point to it. Maybe I should just keep it as it's been and if you see odds it means the team must win by more than that. I wanted to give odds as information and then tell whether they matter in the bet or not...

I've done most things I want to do now and honestly it looks like NCAA Tourney Picker will take much less time than I thought. So I bet I could make that as quickly as I did the multiple choice section.... so maybe a couple days.

edit: actually I am thinking of how complicated it will be having that many matchups and somehow tying them together, so it may take longer than 2 days. I don't know.

If you reread your posts, you really didnt ask anything. Honestly what you did was a blog, inside a forum, about how you created a way to do grammy betting. Great job by the way.

There is so much info to display on some pages, it's getting frustrating figuring out how to skin it. I may just take longer to even change things becuase it's far from fun trying to reorganize all of that. I somehow have to fit in information on whether odds are being used and also whether an undersdog will give more points.

The NCAA Tournament area will take a while too probably. Just like the Reviews System it is becoming hard to even decide how to change the look. Both of these have a lot of information to display and it never looks the way I want.

Now here you are starting a blog on how tyou are going to create the ncaa tourney setup.

Nope anyone who can read between the lines sees that post is asking for ideas on how to better organize things as well as other. I also asked whether there should be a listed amount a favorite is expected to win by and then it not necessarily count as odds. A lot of things I already added I asked about here first and had no response. Also the reason this seems like a "blog" is because I had been posting it in the other betting system topics and people were not responding to those either. It looks extremely bad to guests to be reading topics and see every single one is me posting 5,6,7, and even more than 7 straight posts without a single person commenting. If I were them I wouldn't join either with all the topics the admin has had to make since nobody else does and then nobody even responds to the admin's. Unfortunately nothing is going to change here with only 1 person posting. In pretty much any category I post in, there is no response. I refuse to believe that nobody is interested in at least one of sports, music, celebrities, news, video games, all of which keep having topics with 0 replies.

It's fine though. But it just makes me not want to fulfill requests when I know they aren't going to use what they request. That would be ridiculous. Common sense there. Most administrators do not listen to suggestions. I can tell you from experience of being a member on many sites that they flat out ignore people. Andapparently I am going to have to start doing the same to keep my sanity. So I am about to the point of closing this and not taking suggestions becuase the ones made aren't used once fulfilled and 99% of the time I get no suggestions at all, so why bother asking? I've asked for advice since day 1 and nobody gave any and also from day 1 I asked for someone to please help me with graphics or give advice on exact areas which all also got ignored. I mean seriously who is going to join where nobody is active? That's why you see every person joining ending up being a spammer.

Nope anyone who can read between the lines sees that post is asking for ideas on how to better organize things as well as other. I also asked whether there should be a listed amount a favorite is expected to win by and then it not necessarily count as odds. A lot of things I already added I asked about here first and had no response. Also the reason this seems like a "blog" is because I had been posting it in the other betting system topics and people were not responding to those either. It looks extremely bad to guests to be reading topics and see every single one is me posting 5,6,7, and even more than 7 straight posts without a single person commenting. If I were them I wouldn't join either with all the topics the admin has had to make since nobody else does and then nobody even responds to the admin's. Unfortunately nothing is going to change here with only 1 person posting. In pretty much any category I post in, there is no response. I refuse to believe that nobody is interested in at least one of sports, music, celebrities, news, video games, all of which keep having topics with 0 replies.

It's fine though. But it just makes me not want to fulfill requests when I know they aren't going to use what they request. That would be ridiculous. Common sense there.

i have already posted a couple of times it looks great and runs great. if you have a specific question, please ask. i am not good at reading between the lines. especially when it comes to puter questions.

slam dunk and 3 pt contest is tonight. nba all star game is tomorrow.

I could have added those, but the ASG itself is so unimportant. I may add it.

I wish I knew about the fight that was saturday night where I could have added that, but someone eneds to bet if I add things.

Added the ASG for you. Hopefully you see it becuase I don't know if I am going to bet on it.

Sigh. This is why I don't add things every time becuase you asked for it, I added it, and then I was the only one to use it.

So adding it simply added another loss to my stats and did nothing more really. I need to get enough active people where I know things will get used. I made my pick late in the day or it would have had zero payouts. lol

Thats because I had only 8 hrs to bet on it. If you had put this up earlier i would have been able to place a bet. Was out of the house almost all day on sunday.

ok. But regardless, we need some new people. I dunno, I've told people on espn.com and other sports sites about it and nobody seems interested, so i dunno.

well i sent you some sites to get people. try 1 out

Just a note, some guy on the radio who charges money for people to get to see his sports picks brags about being 60% successful, so I guess my % on here isn't that bad at this point.

#1 memphis is playing #2 Tenn on saturday. That would be something to bet on.

I know. I was waiting for odds to be announced. They have been announced by 1 place so i will add it with those. I am not using odds for it anyway but wanted to have a number for favored by.

How come I lost 500 pts on the memphis game? I know the final score had them losing but Memphis should have won so I deserve my points.

Well technically the officials cost us, so indeed we should win.

By the way I would add tonight's tennessee/vanderbilt game if anyone would even bet on it. I personally think TN is already going to lsoe and thus memphis be back at #1 next week.

I would have added the heavyweight boxing match of last saturday too, but we need some people here to bet on things.

The reason I keep doing good is I am cautious on my bets. I wasn't so sure about any of the next 3 bets so I only bet 100 each. Also careful when I use my "big bets" (which I need to change the name of to something else lol).