Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get my league set up on The Footy Record?
Send an email to the administrator (see next question) with the following details: Your name and that of your league, and initially a list of your teams and the grounds they play on.
Where do I send any questions I might have?
Send an email to the administrator at contact1 (at) thefootyrecord.net.
How do I get players' photos on to the site?
These must be emailed to the administrator. Photos of players must be .jpg files 120 pixels wide and 150 pixels high - you should be able to compress these to about 4-5 kb without losing too much quality. They must also be called por?????.jpg where ????? is a right-justified, zero padded numerical representation of the player's id. A player's id can be found at the top of his player profile page in grey, following the words PLAYER PROFILE. See this example. Mick Sitch's id is 15, so his photo must be called por00015.jpg.
What about team and league logos?
These must also be emailed to the administrator. Logos must be .gif files 96 pixels wide and 96 pixels high - you should be able to compress these to about 4-5 kb without losing too much quality. They can be called anything.
What about photos of grounds for the Grounds page?
These must also be emailed to the administrator. Ground photos must be .jpg files 320 pixels wide and 240 pixels high. They can be called anything.
Status of matches: What is meant by OPEN/CLOSED and CONFIRMED/UNCONFIRMED?
When a match is defined in the fixture, it is defined as OPEN or CLOSED by checking the OPEN checkbox. The difference is that an open match can be editted while a closed one can not. Account administrators can use this flag to identify whether other Footy Record users in his account may or may not edit the scores of the match.
The other reason why it can be useful to close a match is so that it doesn't clutter up the menu of "Matches You May Update". There is no point in having matches there once they have been completed and all their scores have been entered.
Also, OPEN matches are marked on the match page as Unconfirmed while CLOSED matches are Confirmed.
What Google mapping functionality is available and how do I exploit it?
On the page where you define the attributes of a ground, you will find a field called "Google Map Parms". If you don't want this particular ground to be mapped, leave it blank. If you do want it mapped, you need to enter its latitude and longitude. For more details on the format of this field, see the help item for it.
By simply specifying these co-ordinates, a Google map showing the ground's location will appear on the ground's page. As an example, you can see the location of the ground in Farum, Denmark, by clicking here (scroll down to see the map).
In addition to this, these ground co-ordinates can be used to show a map of all the teams in your league. All you need to do is supply the administrator of this site with an icon bitmap to be used for each team. This bitmap MUST be a .gif file, 17 pixels by 17 pixels, with the one pixel width on the outside - all the way around - set to transparent. The remaining 15 x 15 pixel square in the middle of the bitmap should be a graphic of the team's jumper.
The presence of the bitmap and the co-ordinates in the ground definition of the team's default ground, will cause that team to appear on the map. The map can be viewed by clicking on the Club Map menu option on the left of the browser.
For an example of what this looks like, you can see the a map of the DAFL teams here.
Why is my number of games or goals on my player profile page different from what is shown on the "Most" lists in the Stats Wizard?
Both pages are programmed to accept a search criteria based on certain values. Some accept different defaults than others. Make sure that the same options are selected. In particular, check Match Style. Some pages will make no restriction and others will not accept some of the Match Styles, ideally Lightning Premierships. If you make sure these options are the same on both pages, then the stats should be equal.