BOINCOT - Formula Boinc Marathon Stats Tool

[UBT - wbiz]

I hope some competitors find the following site of some use.

https://boincot.uk "Boinc - Opportunities and Threats"

All suggestions, questions and feedback are welcome on functionality and/or presentation.

Defaults to my current team (of course) but the url for any selected team can be bookmarked/saved/linked.

Hovering on any line gives the current FB boinc credits and how long ago since there was new credit.

100% means the credits are close/identical, 0% means they are poles apart (opportunities are non-linear, threats are linear).

Tested on Firefox, Chromium and Safari, probably doesn't work with browsers over 5 years old or so but let me know any significant functional incompatibilities and I will see what I can do.

[EDIT - deleted previous notes]

[UBT - wbiz]

https://boincot.uk v2 beta has been released to the wild - feedback welcomed

Now does both TEAM and USER marathons.
Days column renamed to Age (this takes a week to fill up correctly)
Minor bugs in niche circumstances but shouldn't occur in normal operation.
Full functionality is for desktop use, touchscreens are not fully supported.

Future versions

v3 is well on its way, its working but front end needs tidying.
Adds selectable filters for opponents and/or projects

v4 is planned
Rewrite of some of the code, it got messy!
Sort out known bugs
Add FB positions
Add last checked detail

Further aspirations ......
Try and make it more functional for touchscreen devices.

[UBT - Timbo]

Hiya

Wow - that's a lot of information...

OK, some feedback:

1) What does having a Team or Member name in BOLD signify?

2) Using the "drop down" option to see other Teams or Members, on my big screen, for League 3 Members, I cannot select anyone at the bottom of the list as it goes below the bottom of my monitor - so can this "wrap" into two columns if it's a long list or can the font size be reduced a little?

3) On the "drop down" Teams listing, League 4 is above League 3

4) On the "drop down" Members listing in League 3, some names are listed more than once - I am assuming this is due to differences in the "registered" names used on specific BOINC projects?

5) Exactly what is meant by "difference in FB pts" ?? What is being compared to what to then be "different"?

rgds
Tim

[UBT - wbiz]

Thanks Tim.

Bold are active, ie those that have increased their boinc credits in the last 24 hours - the same as Age = 0. I had thought about dropping the bolding but couldn't decide so status quo ante. If I keep it I'll try and remember to put a comment in the question mark dropdown.

The mouse scroll wheel should be able to scroll down the dropdown lists. I am going to reduce the font-size and try and decrease the white-space in the dropdown lists. Two columns might not possible without using javascript or some other client-side engine, a rabbit hole I don't want to go down. It might be possible using CSS, I will look into it. The dropdowns are the only thing I'm using third party software for, using the w3-css library to save me adding reams of css formatting, its not a very flexible library. I had sort of resigned myself to drop it at some point in the future. Originally the whole website was using w3-css but I found it too restricting.

The league drop downs aren't sorted, the data tables were initially filled in order on v1 then updated by the oldest so they appeared in order .... but that had drawbacks (like when you only have league 4) so I changed it to random fill, yes, it needs a sort, I think I have already done that on the unreleased v3.

Different projects have different ways of decoding htmlentities, I think Sebastien had problems with this and had a play because he has a number of different name variants coming from different projects. I am double decoding to try and get rid of all the residual htmlentities.
Pavel Kirpichenko has a space on some projects and an underscore on others - if people have different names in different projects they are separate people at name level. In some cases it is just a capitalisation issue.

Vice-versa ..... there are many duplicate names in Boinc, so far I don't think we have a great problem of duplicate names on Formula Boinc but there is absolutely nothing stopping it happening. I've not amalgamated similar names in case they are intended to be different to identify individually.

For the purposes of Boincot, the displayed user/team name in different projects is of little consequence, it is primarily to indicate opportunities and threats at individual project level. When I've added the filtering I will have another look at this because it will become more apparent but I don't have data at cpid level to correctly amalgamate different names (this is partly why BoincGames has that convoluted sign up method).

[UBT - wbiz]

Having slept on this, I'll change the dropdown boxes into pages, that kills two birds with one stone as it will prevent the list falling off the bottom of the screen and make it touchscreen compatible. Function over form!