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Hi guys

I was bored and had some spare time at work, so knocked up a handy little fixture tracker based against weighted teams, with colour coding for ease on the eye :P

http://www.orangecactus.co.uk/tff/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Works very similar to brams but I prefer to be able to visualise the easy streaks that are coming up for certain teams or to see the extras games. You can also click on the checkbox next to each team to highlight just their fixtures, again, nice and easy to visualise.

The weighting is based on last seasons final table:

1. Top 4 teams - RED
2. 5 - 8 teams - ORANGE
3. 9 - 12 teams - YELLOW
4. 13 - 16 teams - GREEN
5. 17 and promoted teams - BLUE

I can easily adjust them as the season goes on and we start to see teams become tricker or easier through future results. I will also adjust the fixtures when they start to get reshuffled and add in the FA cup games once we know.

My next step is to be able to select your team and it work out the days where you don't have any players playing, just to see if there are runs of empty games where a handy transfer might help.

Anyway, I find it handy, so thought someone else may as well :)

Tom

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Cheers for sharing Tom. As always people will talk about ratings, home/away etc but anything that adds insight is a good thing. Nice stuff (now get back to work...he says whilst avoiding work himself!)

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Great thanks Tom.

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:D

Noticed that my mouse wheel scrolls left to right on it rather than up and down. Weird.

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murf wrote::D

Noticed that my mouse wheel scrolls left to right on it rather than up and down. Weird.
Technology 'aye :wink: ...Cheers Tom.

How about a little colour code list on the page? My memory isn't the best these days.

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murf wrote::D

Noticed that my mouse wheel scrolls left to right on it rather than up and down. Weird.
Haha yeah I reversed it as got tired of automatically trying to scroll with my mouse and nothing happening :P

V1CAR wrote:
murf wrote::D

Noticed that my mouse wheel scrolls left to right on it rather than up and down. Weird.
Technology 'aye :wink: ...Cheers Tom.

How about a little colour code list on the page? My memory isn't the best these days.
Will add a little key to it now :)

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murf wrote::D

Noticed that my mouse wheel scrolls left to right on it rather than up and down. Weird.
I love it. Stops the faffing of the scroll bar :D

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Nice one. :)

If you could an option customise the colours? That would make it really good.

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I must have my font too big because I need to scroll down to see West Ham if I'm looking at Arsenal!

My eyes, like V1CAR's memory, ain't the best these days!

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murf wrote:I must have my font too big because I need to scroll down to see West Ham if I'm looking at Arsenal!

My eyes, like V1CAR's memory, ain't the best these days!
Ahhh you're either zoomed in on the browser or your resolution is tiny :P will try and work a special murf fix into it ;)

I've added a key top left now.

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What about maybe 2 colours in each box so we can see last seasons top 4 Vs last seasons promoted, for example. If that's possible, just an idea.

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Opening the page I can see down to Southampton.

The scroll now works properly :wink: and Arsenal just stay on screen when it gets down to WHam so its perfect :D On this computer..... :? :lol:

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murf wrote:Opening the page I can see down to Southampton.

The scroll now works properly :wink: and Arsenal just stay on screen when it gets down to WHam so its perfect :D On this computer..... :? :lol:
haha just implemented that for you :D if there is a side scroll bar, then it will work normally .. if not, then it will scroll left and right :)
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Nice one
Stuff like this is always useful

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V1CAR wrote:What about maybe 2 colours in each box so we can see last seasons top 4 Vs last seasons promoted, for example. If that's possible, just an idea.
I could try this but I think it may suddenly become a dulux colour chart very quickly :D

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Thomarse wrote:
V1CAR wrote:What about maybe 2 colours in each box so we can see last seasons top 4 Vs last seasons promoted, for example. If that's possible, just an idea.
I could try this but I think it may suddenly become a dulux colour chart very quickly :D
:lol: Just imagine looking at that on a Friday night after a few beers.

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Really helpful, thanks for sharing :D

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would it be possible to add sound effects ?

I am thinking popping champagne corks for the easy games, the rattling of chains for the hard ones ideally playing when I look at the relevant teams.

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Knulpuk wrote:would it be possible to add sound effects ?

I am thinking popping champagne corks for the easy games, the rattling of chains for the hard ones ideally playing when I look at the relevant teams.
Maybe an eyeball tracker sensor thing that can give off a warning signal (the sound when you get one wrong on Family Fortunes?) if you are looking at a dodgy fixture??

And, of course, the Countdown clock for those of us who leave our transfers late.

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I hadn't realised what good run Liverpool now have. Perhaps I should bring in Sterling for Ramsey, after all.

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Re: Handy tool

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Nice tool, any chance of adding the capability to select multiple teams?

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top work fella 8-)

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friskyfleabag wrote:Nice tool, any chance of adding the capability to select multiple teams?
Yeah was looking at doing that before I left work, will have a look if I have time over the weekend :D

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Nice !

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Great work Thomarse 8-)

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Very nice, thanks for sharing 8-)

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Handy tool

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Nice stuff, I pay to be a member of fantasy football scout as I love their season ticker widget.

Would not have the foggiest how to build something like this!

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ty tom
nice work 8-)

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Post by Del »

Thanks for sharing Tom, very useful planner.

fyi Spurs home games moved to Sunday - today, 26th Oct and 9 Nov.

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A nice upgrade on my one, great job and thanks for sharing.

My only comment and this is just my personal preference is that I wouldn't have the whole fixture in the box as it makes it harder to read at a glance (for me), so Arsenal playing at Chelsea today would just be "che" (in lower case to show away game).

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