A New Way to View UFRs

Submitted by WolverineBlue on

We all love the in-depth analysis provided by Brian's UFR posts on MGoBlog. But sometimes the voluminous stream of information can be daunting.

I have created a web application to make viewing of UFR data easier and more powerful. You can step through the game analysis play by play or search and filter using a wide range of criteria. For any play, you are just one click away from viewing the corresponding video clip. I am now happy to make this app available to the MGoBlog community.

Disclaimer: This is a user-generated project and not an official feature of MGoBlog. I am offering this on a trial basis. While I intend to continue to support and update the program throughout the season, I can offer no firm promises or guarantees.

I have created a simple web site from which you can launch the viewer for your game of choice. There is more information at the web site. It can be found here:

http://michiganufr.x10.mx/

In the future, UFR data should be viewable in the utility within 15 minutes of the UFR being posted on the main page of MGoBlog.

Enjoy!

Comments

maizenbluedevil

October 4th, 2011 at 2:53 AM ^

This is awesome. Thank you.

If you're interested in suggestions, one thing that would make it even better is a "View Play" button to the right of the play summary part of the interface, that automatically cues up the play in the YouTube frame at the top of the page.  This could probably be accomplished pretty easily since you could just link each play's button to the video time URL from the YouTube video.  

bluecervelo

October 4th, 2011 at 10:28 AM ^

thanks for doing this, it's amazing! it's nice to see all the plays, not just the ones that Brian picks out.

i've read some of the suggestions above about the video cueing up when you click on a play, how about the other way around? how about the play info on the bottom advancing when the video hits the next play, is that possible? that way, you can watch the video, get the commentary, and then the play info gets updated?

aenima0311

October 4th, 2011 at 11:48 AM ^

This is amazing.

The only thing I could think that it needs is a running tally of +/- on the blank righthand side of the screen (in fullscreen mode).

Amazing work!

Mengin06

October 4th, 2011 at 12:16 PM ^

Well done, sir!

I haven't read all of the comments above, but I'm sure they include some of the ideas for improvement that I am thinking of. I look forward to this evolving into a great tool over the rest of the year.

RobSk

October 4th, 2011 at 4:32 PM ^

Super nice work!

If I might put in a feature suggestion- Consider doing ongoing aggregation of plus/minus by player, and perhaps having the list display as an expandotron or something of that sort. It's one of the pieces of data I'm always looking for when reading a UFR.

To re-iterate- WOW, I'm very, very impressed! Thank you for the hard work!

      Rob

WolverineBlue

October 4th, 2011 at 5:18 PM ^

The idea of collecting the player plus/minus scores has been thought about but will probably have to remain a longer term goal. As the UFRs are currently formatted, this information is embedded within the play descriptions and the formatting is not consistent enough to extract with high accuracy. I started to look at that and there were just too many exceptions to formatting conventions. There are solutions to this, but as I stated, they are longer term.

I would encourage anyone with suggestions to submit them to the website forum, as I will probably stop checking this thread once it disappears off the front page.