Chronological listing of Scorecast games

[Danger]

From my team website, I have a link to our scorecast games for our fans to follow us on:
http://data.iscorecentral.com/iscorecas ... c=teamname" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Typically, the most recent game shows up on the far right of the list across the top. Very easy to direct fans to the correct game.

However, while at the ballfield, I sometimes go into an older game and do something trivial. For example, we might be getting ready to play a team we've played previously and I noticed that I didn't Copy that team's lineup to their roster. So, I'll go into the old game, Undo the End Game, copy into the roster, and then Redo the End Game.

That's where my small issue is: Just by doing that, the old game is now listed as the LAST game on the Scorecast list even though it might have been played months before. That's confusing to our fans, especially since we're about to play that same team again. The only way to fix that is to go back and, in order, do the Scorecast Sync with every single game that's been played since then.

Long-winded way to get there, but can you force the listing of games to be in chronological order?

[FTMSupport]

Yes, we will likely be changing this. The problem is there are several dates and not everyone fills them all in. There is the Scheduled Date, the game Start Date, the Game End date, and the date the user actually scored the game. Tabletop baseball scorekeepers are often scoring games from 1982 (or whatever their favorite year is) so chronological order may or may not be what they want.

There is also the issue that some people pre-enter all their games so if we did the ordering from oldest to newest (newest listed last / far right), then these people would always see the last game of the season to the far right instead of their most recently scored game.

We have been trying to think of what makes the most logical sense to accommodate most people. It will probably be something like this:

1. To the far left (listed first) will be all games that have not yet started (i.e. they have been created but no scoring has yet taken place). It might be most correct to list these with the game furthest in the future first and going to the one that is nearest to today but not scored. The problem with this is if people have "stale / old" games, they always get the rightmost spot. Maybe the solution is "too bad, you should delete stale games". The other problem with this is after a couple years of games, you would have to scroll way to the left to view future / upcoming games. Maybe that is fine - the iScorecast screen is not intended as a "schedule of games", it is there to view already scored or currently being scored games.

2. After scheduled games, we would list already scored / being scored games in Scheduled Date order with the newest / active game being in the far right.

3. (possible) It might be worthwhile to take any games scheduled for "today" or "tomorrow" and put them at the far right as well so people can see the next upcoming game(s).

There is no way we are going to appease everyone with this. The current listing is "whatever game you have edited most recently appears to the far right".

It will probably be some variation on the above when we do make a change.

[FTMSupport]

Another option we have talked about is to add a manual "weight" to the scorecast listing on the Admin Website that will let you influence the ordering of games. Any games that have the same weight would be ordered chronologically by the rules described in the previous post. By default, all games would just follow those rules. But if you start adding a weight to your games, it would allow you to put all old games to the far left, or test games, or tabletop games, or whatever you would like. In an extreme case, you could give every game its own unique weight value to have complete control of the order of games.

[Danger]

Even a simple Sort Preference on the Admin page might work as a temporary solution until you master the better solution.

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