Creation of a "systems calculator" tool for Punters Lounge

[Datapunter]

My fellow system punters, there's an idea i've had for a long time and i think the time has come to make it happen. What ? I'm talking about a tool for Punters Lounge, a "Systems Calculator", let's call it "Sniffy" for now. The most important function "Sniffy" will have is to look at a systems thread and automatically calculate the result of that posted system. But it will go beyond that. Not only will it show the result like strike rate, yield, profit/loss , it will do so using multiple staking variations such as level, percentile, fixed profits, etc... A graphical display can be included. The poster may even be able to get a copy in Excel format. And there's more... There's a hint in the name "Sniffy": it will periodically do its rounds on Punters Lounge , picking up systems in whatever forum they are posted and keeping all results up to date. This will allow us, as a community, to display overview pages about systems. A lot of work if done manually, but with "Sniffy" keeping the info up to date it becomes a piece of cake. How will this all work ? From a posters point of view things will be pretty much the same as they are now. You simply run a thread on a system, adding bets as you go along, as well as comments, reasoning, suggestions, feedback, smilies, images, no change there. The only new thing would be that bets need to be posted in a way that "Sniffy" can recognise them as a bet. We'll need to give that one some thought but shouldn't be too hard. Ok, nice idea, now what ? I'm looking to form a task-force of about 4 or 5 people. This task-force will stick their heads together and come up with a detailled description of what we want the tool to do, and to some extent how we want it to work. No technical expertise required ! The task-force is about functionality. When we are clear about what we want we will look for a developer to create the tool. The task-force will then also take care of some testing and maybe some documentation. Obviously everyone is welcome to add their thought, ideas, suggestions in this thread. The task-force is just about practicality.

[ZuluWarrior]

Re: Creation of a "systems calculator" tool for Punters Lounge I'm in, DP and I have already chatted and I have some ideas on how to incorperate Sniffy into the PL and other forums... I'm a programmer so I expect thats where I'll get involved. Are you thinking of hosting the overviews an advanced analytics on another site DP? If you are, then tips will be going into a database, so we could have more analytics than you could shake a bet slip at! also, that would facilitate Email subscriptions, RSS feeds, ect. That would be cool, your system as an RSS feed automatically...