I have blatantly stolen this post from IHOF...
Looks like an outstanding utility to have, especially at this point in the season.
[quote5b36750="primelord"]This was posted over at FOFC too, but just in case anyone misses it.
I finally got around to finishing the GUI version of the player ratings tracker utility. I think it will ease many of the problmes people have been having with the command line version. In addition to the new GUI interface I added a new HTML format output that looks very similar to the output from my situational stats utility. I left the old HTML format as an option as well because that format can be pasted to this board in a nicer looking way. I also fixed a problem with the CSV output. The , in the players names was throwing off the alignment.
Here is a screenshot of the new utility:
[img5b36750]http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/primelord/chng_trck.JPG[/img5b36750]
As usual a big thanks goes to SkyDog for hosting this. You can download the new version from the below link:
http://www.younglifenorthdekalb.com/fof ... racker.exe
Utility Operation:
Since this is a GUI utility you just need to double click the executable. Since it is written in Perl and has the Tk libraries bundled into the executeable it will likely take a few seconds to load up. So if you double click on it and it doesn't immediately spring up don't worry.
This utility tracks the changes in players overall ratings from the Scout Overview screen. In order to track the changes you need to print to file your Scout Overview screen at whatever time frames you want to watch. If you only want to watch ratings changes from year to year you can print the Scout Overview screen at the end of every season or you can do it as often as every game.
The printouts need to be saved in the same directory as the utility and they need to be plain .txt files. I would suggest saving them with naming convention such as 2004.txt 2005.txt 2006.txt etc. Or for multiple points within the same year 2004a.txt 2004b.txt 2004c.txt and so forth. You can name the files anything you want, but the utility is going to process them in an ASCIIbetical format (similar to alphabetical exept that 10 would be listed before 2 and 20 before 3 etc.). The utility will automatically find any .txt files in the directory and display them in the scroll box. The order in which they are displayed is the order that they will be processed.
There are 4 different output types for the application:
HTML1 - This is the old HTML format from the previous versions of the utility. I think it is kind of ugly, but it is functional and can be pasted to the board with no problem.
HTML2 - This is a cleaner looking output, but doesn;t paste to the board very well.
CSV - This will create a comma seperated value report that can be read into excel or anything else that will import csv files.
Text - This is a plain text version of the report. This report doesn;t always line up right.
There are also two type of report type:
Short - This is the defualt report type and the one I think will be used by far the most. It reads in all of the scout overview files you have selected and if a player is not listed in the most recent file he will not be listed in the report. That keeps you from seeing the ratings from players who are no longer with your team.
Long - This version will display the ratings it finds for any player in the scout overview files even if they are no longer on the team. I don;t think it is particularly useful, but just incase someone wanted that info I decided to leave it in.
Once you have selected your output types just select the Scout Overview files you want to track from the scroll box list. You can highligh multiple files by holding down the Ctrl key as you click the files with your mouse. Any highlighted files will be processed.
Once you have selected the files hit the "Track" button and a player report will be created in the directory with the utilty. If you chose an HTML output it will be player_report.html. If you chose CSV it will be player_report.csv etc.
As always I want to hear any feedback you have on the utility. What type of things could make it better, what features are missing etc and of course if there are any bugs. Let me know if you have any problems.[/quote5b36750]
