I think customization is the key, particularly when it comes to record reporting. Some people want to receive an email every time a team record gets broken, some only want to know if a player on *their* team breaks an all-time league record, and there's everything in between.
Personally, I'm interested in the league-wide single-season and career records, and the bigger milestones. For example, this report:
WOOF MILESTONE WATCH
is based on a table with this information:
name | milestone | close |
passyards | 40000 | 1000 |
passyards | 50000 | 1000 |
passyards | 60000 | 1000 |
tdpasses | 300 | 12 |
tdpasses | 400 | 12 |
tdpasses | 500 | 12 |
rushingyards | 10000 | 500 |
rushingyards | 15000 | 500 |
rushtd | 100 | 10 |
receivingyards | 10000 | 500 |
receivingyards | 15000 | 500 |
receivingtds | 100 | 10 |
tackles | 1000 | 50 |
tackles | 1500 | 50 |
sacks | 100 | 10 |
sacks | 150 | 10 |
sacks | 200 | 10 |
ints | 50 | 5 |
points | 1000 | 50 |
points | 1500 | 50 |
points | 2000 | 50 |
These are all numbers that aren't reached by many players, and some that will likely never be reached, but would be worth noting if they were. You're right in that too much would become ignored. One thing that would be important would be to have an on/off toggle. I don't *ever* want to hear about new single-season records in the first 5ish seasons of career play, but by year 15 or so, every single-season record is meaningful to me.
Similarly, after around 15 seasons, I would want the ability to turn on emails for when career records are broken. By year 20, I would want the ability to turn on emails for when career records are even *extended,* and I'd want an email like this for "marquee" records:
Quote:
QB John Thomas of Atlanta finally retired this year. He was the all-time league leader in passing TDs, with 472. He also holds the record for passing yards in a career, with 56,245.
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