Customizable Stats Program

[Young Drachma]

Do any of you know of a program where you can input the statistics or whatever that you want to use for a particular sport. Like, a program that is not sport specific?

I know it's a stretch, but I figured it might be handier than trying to create my own. (Yes, it's for toccer (http://www.toccer.com))

Anyway, if you know of something, lemme know.

Thanks.

[Young Drachma]

I'm just doing a spreadsheet. I could find programs that would do some of the stuff, but ultimately, this will work for the time being.

[Solecismic]

I used to work for a company called Wall Data. It no longer exists, AFAIK.

They produced a program called "Salsa", which was an attempt to create something like that. They spent a ton of money researching exactly how to implement these functions in an easy manner. The idea was that you'd have this generic tool, and you'd spend some time setting up fields, and then it would run your database for you.

Very impressive stuff. They got this professor at Washington with all sorts of great ideas about databases. A good team spent a year work on it. It was going to revolutionize the software database world.

And finally it came out. I played with the beta, because it was a lot of fun. But the darned thing was a mess. Using it was like viewing a jigsaw puzzle of a database, before assembling the pieces. There was nothing I could do with it that I couldn't do 100 times faster and (more importantly) 100 times more clearly with Excel.

The damned program probably sold less copies than I sold of FOF1. Just about destroyed the company's finances and forced a round of layoffs (that team got hit, the rest of us just got moved around some).

There's a point in here somewhere... there's absolutely no substitute for a good spreadsheet. I hope that no matter how many pretty doodads I'm forced to stick in FOF, that I still can get a ton of data on the screen.

[Young Drachma]

Agreed Jim. I'm a real stats geek and so, once the sport got developed enough where we actually figured out what statistics we'd have and how they would be calculated, I was really excited (Read: I'm a nerd) to see the stats on paper.

I'm not great with Excel, so it probably could be a heck of a lot more presentable. But, it's functional and so, I can't complain.

Here it is (http://www.toccer.com/toccerspreadsheet.xls)