seventieslord
Student Of The Game
Lately in the player bio thread, we’ve been talking about how important it is that when a GM completes a player bio, they take all the relevant information already collected on the player and use that as a starting point. The player bio master thread is a useful resource to help with that.
But not everyone creates bios, and often you will come across a piece of information that is very bio-worthy and you don’t own the player or aren’t even currently in a draft. What do you do then? There’s the “Dishing the dirt†thread which is a catch-all random quotes dumping ground, but it’s a mess now. You don’t go in there to find information about any specific player.
In the past, someone talked about starting a “wikia†for player information. I could see this working, but there’s another way to do it that would keep all our efforts on this board – player specific threads.
Imagine, one thread about Wayne Gretzky, one about Bobby Orr, one about Gordie Howe, and so on. Each thread could start with a pasted in bio or two, and then whenever anyone has something to say about a player (whether they are their GM or not, whether it’s anecdotal or statistical in nature, whether it’s positive or negative), they go in this thread and post it. The threads would also encourage discussion. I could go into a Martin Brodeur thread and post a case for why he’s overrated, and someone could come in and reply. Eventually, every player thread has a lot of back and forth in it, as well as stats, quotes from published sources, etc. Any GM interested in drafting them, any opposing GM doing scouting for the playoffs, anyone participating in an HOH project, and any interested lurker can find all relevant info for any player in one place.
The number of replies in each thread would also make it easy for anyone interested in research to identify how much information exists on a player and which players badly need bios created.
It would make a mess of this section, but what a beautiful mess! Looking for a player? Just search for their name in the search bar and say “search thread titles only†and you’ve got him. We could have a standardized format for thread titles:
Wayne Gretzky, C, 1978-1999
This idea is really easy to implement. The hard part is the initial switching over from our old system of recreating bios in single posts year after year, to this one. But the payoff is huge – an awesome repository of player information.
Thoughts?
But not everyone creates bios, and often you will come across a piece of information that is very bio-worthy and you don’t own the player or aren’t even currently in a draft. What do you do then? There’s the “Dishing the dirt†thread which is a catch-all random quotes dumping ground, but it’s a mess now. You don’t go in there to find information about any specific player.
In the past, someone talked about starting a “wikia†for player information. I could see this working, but there’s another way to do it that would keep all our efforts on this board – player specific threads.
Imagine, one thread about Wayne Gretzky, one about Bobby Orr, one about Gordie Howe, and so on. Each thread could start with a pasted in bio or two, and then whenever anyone has something to say about a player (whether they are their GM or not, whether it’s anecdotal or statistical in nature, whether it’s positive or negative), they go in this thread and post it. The threads would also encourage discussion. I could go into a Martin Brodeur thread and post a case for why he’s overrated, and someone could come in and reply. Eventually, every player thread has a lot of back and forth in it, as well as stats, quotes from published sources, etc. Any GM interested in drafting them, any opposing GM doing scouting for the playoffs, anyone participating in an HOH project, and any interested lurker can find all relevant info for any player in one place.
The number of replies in each thread would also make it easy for anyone interested in research to identify how much information exists on a player and which players badly need bios created.
It would make a mess of this section, but what a beautiful mess! Looking for a player? Just search for their name in the search bar and say “search thread titles only†and you’ve got him. We could have a standardized format for thread titles:
Wayne Gretzky, C, 1978-1999
This idea is really easy to implement. The hard part is the initial switching over from our old system of recreating bios in single posts year after year, to this one. But the payoff is huge – an awesome repository of player information.
Thoughts?
I'm thinking closer to 1000+.
Uh,... why not then?!??
