Help Wanted
I'm working on an application to diagram football plays. I've got the offense pretty much done, but the defense is way more complex than I'd like it to be. I'm wondering if anyone out there with a good knowledge of how a defense is supposed to work would be willing to answer some questions for me so that I can finish this up and get it posted online for people to use. It's probably going to require a bit of back and forth for a couple of weeks while I try to figure out rules for defensive alignment.
the.real.joeyb
If anyone is interested, would you please email me at the above email address at gmail?
January 23rd, 2011 at 11:38 AM ^
sorry, mispost.
January 23rd, 2011 at 11:39 AM ^
Try emailing Magnus at [email protected]
January 23rd, 2011 at 11:41 AM ^
I thought about that. I figured that he reads the board. If he wants to and has time to help, he'd email me. If not, I'm hoping some of our other intelligent posters will.
January 23rd, 2011 at 12:38 PM ^
Just sent you an e-mail.
January 23rd, 2011 at 11:48 AM ^
You might also try consulting with steve sharik.
January 23rd, 2011 at 12:09 PM ^
You could try him.
January 23rd, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
GERG has time on his hands. You can try reaching him at stuffedbeaver.com
January 23rd, 2011 at 1:10 PM ^
Damn you! That was the exact same thing I was going to say (not the www.stuffedbeaver.com part though). +1 for beating me to it.
January 23rd, 2011 at 5:46 PM ^
Might want to include the NSFW/H tag on that one for our more naïve posters
January 23rd, 2011 at 1:05 PM ^
Not the OPs fault but I'm a wee bit jaded on helping out fellow MGobloggers with their homework assaignments. Last week somebody posted they needed help in completing some project and had 10 questions they needed a senior level manager to answer. I volunteered and asked when he needed them by. He said by the end of the day so I literally carved out an hour of my schedule to help him.
And not so much as even an email thank you or even an acknowledgement it was recieved.
January 23rd, 2011 at 1:15 PM ^
Well, allow me to thank you for helping out a stranger. That was nice of you.
January 23rd, 2011 at 3:30 PM ^
That was kind of you to do so. This isn't a homework assignment, though, and I'm doing it in my spare time to increase my understanding of footall, and hopefully others' as well once it is complete.
January 23rd, 2011 at 4:00 PM ^
I remeber this post and also seeing that you were willing to help. I guess the first red flag for me would have been that he said that he needed the information by the end of the day. If he had been more on the ball he would have been asking for help a little sooner. Even though a quick note saying thank you would have been greatly appreciated when I hear the time frame you were given I am not surprised that you did not get a proper thank you. Hopefully that guy figures things or he will have a tough time out in the business world. It does not take long to determine if someone is reliable or not and this is one indicator.
+1 to you for stepping up and helping this guy out.
January 23rd, 2011 at 4:55 PM ^
That sounds like an interesting idea, OP. I could be of no use in helping you make this program, but I'm curious - would it allow the user to diagram potential plays? Or will it be a database of plays our Wolverines ran this year? Either way, kudos, that's a cool idea!
January 24th, 2011 at 10:36 AM ^
That's the fun thing about programming. I can make it do pretty much anything except generate a random number.
I just want to get it working first. My thought is to have a wiki-based site that allows people to diagram plays, attach a video of the play, describe what's going on, etc. But, as long as the program exists, there's no reason that it can't be used for drawing up new plays.