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Great development.

First impressions:
- periodically insert the header row in the PBP, so I don't have to remember which score is which (although maybe the H and A on the players provide enough context)
- some sort of separator between quarters
- don't wrap the score on whitespace
- make the header an actual "th" table header
- use one dash (or a long dash) to separate the two scores, not "--"
- it would be amazing if this page could be marked up in a more semantic way from the start, to support third parties who want to skin or otherwise manipulate the site. As in: 'table class="pbp"', 'tr class="scoring" (or "foul", or "assist", etc.)

More:
- The realtime links are backwards within quarters. E.g. one second into the first links to 719 seconds into the quarter (i.e. one second left)
- Not working for NT matches

Awesome:
- That the PBP is available "live" (with refreshes). I figured it would only be available post-game.


Last edited by Mod-oeuftete at 5/31/2010 1:32:11 PM

I don't quite understand how to make this work here is the url i entered and it didn't work what am I doing wrong? http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/20527565/pbp.aspx. It always leads to the homepage.

You're not a supporter. As Charles said, currently only supporters can access this page.

Oh my bad.

Absolutely awesome! Great idea.
I've always wanted to be able to check up on how the game is going and watch a little of it from my iPhone but never been able to do that until now!

1 Suggestion though, at the moment, when the points go in to double digits it becomes very hard to keep track of the score.
So it appears as:
15 --
42

It would be a lot better if it simply appeared as 15 - 42

Great work though!

Also, on lines where a shot is missed there is a full stop at the end. Where a shot is scored there isn't. I'm assuming it is a mistake.

Another suggestion:
Is it possible to have key events in the PBP appear in bold? So for example all shots that are scored or missed? The whole line doesn't have to appear bold, just the Scored or Shot Missed part. Fouls would also be in bold, as with free throws.

I haven't had a chance to test this out with a live match yet, but when you refresh the page, will the page stay at the same position you are at or will you have to scroll down and find where you were at last time before you reloaded? It would be awesome if there could be a small marker put in that would indicate where the PBP was at the last time you reloaded so that I could scroll down and look for that marker after reloading and just continue reading from there?

Good work!

For live games I think you should just show the most recent 10 or 20 with the most recent at the top.

But after the game it should be the way it is now.

Just my opinion :)

Is it possible to implement some sort of Auto Refresh? So, for example, if I am on the Play By Play page while the match is running, then every 30 seconds (real life time) the page automatically refreshes with the most recent lines at the top.