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Friday, February 06, 2009

Fantasy Roundtable and Sons of Sam Horn Chat links

Posted by Derek Carty at 3:05pm

I participated in a couple of external discussions lately, so here are the links.

Fantasy Baseball Roundtable

Those who've hung around these parts for a while probably remember the Fantasy Baseball Roundtable from last year. If you're new or haven't heard of it, a collection of writers and bloggers from around the internet get together each week to discuss a fantasy baseball topic.

This week, Fantasy Pros 911 hosted and the question was:

What was your biggest fantasy disappointment from 2008? What is your goal for 2009?

You can find responses from each of the participants (including me) here.

Sons of Sam Horn Chat

This past week, the guys at Sons of Sam Horn have hosted a chat in conjunction with the release of the THT Season Preview 2009. SoSH readers spent the week asking questions, and yesterday I posted my answers to all of them. For the next week or so I'll be fielding follow-ups, so it's not too late if you want to head over there and participate or if you just feel like reading another 5,000 or so words from me

THT Fantasy Mailbag

Finally, as this post pushed today's THT Fantasy Mailbag off the front page, make sure you don't miss it.

Derek Carty, 23, has also been published by NBC's Rotoworld, Sports Illustrated, FOX Sports, and USA Today. This season, he'll be contributing to FanDuel and will be linking to all of his work at DerekCarty.com. In his three years competing in expert leagues, he has won 2 titles with 4 top three finishes, including a LABR NL title in 2009, making him the youngest person to ever win a major expert league title. Derek is a proud graduate of the MLB Scouting Bureau's Scout Development Program and is a firm believer in the importance of combining stats and scouting. He welcomes questions via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter.

Andrew said...

I really enjoyed those answers on Sons of Sam, Derek. Interesting lists of undervalued and overvalued players. Great work.

Posted 02/06 at 06:39 PM

Scaryguy said...

I really thing THT needs to get the preview book out earlier. It is an awesome book and it is very valuable to fantasy players but so many teams draft in early/mid February now days. I love the book but please get it out and shipped by the end of January in the future. It will increase sales. I promise.

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Posted 03/23 at 05:05 PM

ElMothaeda Web said...

Good article .. Thank you very much
I want to know your point of view in this article

Scalability and User Interfaces.

A friend of mine was showing me the brand new web based ERP system that was developed for his medium sized company. He was very happy with its usability and ease of use. He showed me how you can drag and drop employees on the organization chart to change their positions. It was really easy to use.

But it had one flow, it was not scalable. Usually when we talk about scalability in our business we mean how an application can be able to take a larger number of users without changing it. But here was a slightly different type of scalability, user interface scalability. Simply put drag and drop works very well for small data sets. When he was showing me the drag and drop on the org chart there were only a few dozen people on the org chart. If that org chart was fully populated with hundreds of people drag and drop would be much harder since you will need to scroll. Now imagine that you have a thousand employees, not only will you need to scroll a lot but you will also need to filter or search to find the correct person.

There are solutions to make drag and drop scale, like adding filters and having a two pane screen where you filter in one part of the screen and then drag and drop to the other part of the screen, but in all such cases the speed and ease of use of drag and drop is reduced, and more logical choices for large data sets will be better. One such choice is the right click and move to menu that is common in many email clients. You right click on the element you want to move, you select move and then you get a filterable selection box of where you want to move your element. Of coarse the issue with right click these days is that you can not implement it well for the ipad for that you need to read my blog post about the ipad and its effect on web design.

So what seamed like a good interface will actually be useless once the number of employees grows or once you start to actually deploy the system and put your data in it.

At El Motaheda Web we are well aware of these issues and we choose the systems that we offer you with care. Most systems we use will work equally well for a small company as for a large company with thousands of users.

Let us take a small example from WebGUI which is the content management system we use to power all our web sites and the web sites of our clients. Although WebGUI has drag and drop within a content page, where you can re-arrange parts of a page by dragging and dropping, you have a different interface for rearranging the pages withing a web site. Why, simply because if generally you will not have more than 10 elements in a web page, so drag and drop is perfect, but you can have thousands of pages in a web site and here drag and drop is not really suitable. WebGUI can handle thousands of pages easily, our site mashy.com has over 50,000 pages and the official portal of the Ahly club ahlyegypt.com nearly as many pages as mashy.com.

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