What would make this site much better would be direct links to the games. You could let the users add the links and maybe a link-vote/-status to avoid bad links.

Hope it is not illegal to do as it would make the site enormously practical and popular.

Edit to clarify: Whad id like is a small VOD icon that would link to the appropriate game at its original adress, so the game would be watched like it is today, but it would save the user the hassle of locating it.

exog

Norway279 Posts

April 19 2011 12:52 GMT

#23

Another suggestion would be a show all/search function so you dont have to click through everything to get to the game. This "show all" page should enable sorting based on race/rating etc etc.

KaveX

Germany59 Posts

April 19 2011 12:59 GMT

#24

don't forget IEM (not just the World Championships, also the continental ones and the global challenges).

Jochan

Poland1730 Posts

April 19 2011 13:09 GMT

#25

Great idea!!!!!!!!!!!! That is exactly what I need, there is simply not enough time to watch everything and TL live reports not always include recommendation for games. Keep it plain and simple and it should be fine, I like the idea very much.

Raavi

Denmark156 Posts

April 19 2011 13:26 GMT

#26

I really like the idea!
Some constructive criticism for future work

1) Would like to see the amount of votes for each match

2) a toplist, with like the top 50 best rated matches across all leagues

3) 'Streamline' design and information. I had to click alot of times to get to certain GSL matches.

3) Would love if the frontpage was a list of all matches sorted per day. So like if i visit the page today, the frontpage would a list of all matches played yesterday sorted by ratings. The columms could be something like:

RATING PLAYER1 RACE vs RACE PLAYER 2 LEAGUE ROUND/DIVISION
1.5/5 Whitera Protoss vs zerg July NASL division 2
0.3/5 MC Protoss vs Terran IMMvp GSL R64

etc etc etc, if that made any sence

Koibu0

United States513 Posts

April 19 2011 16:05 GMT

#27

Thanks for all the helpful feedback. These are great ideas which I really want to implement, I'm just really short on time (working 50h/w).

If anybody is a visual designer and wants to pitch in, PM me because I could use some help with that.

Keep the feedback coming, and keep voting/rating/raking!

GameTime

United States222 Posts

April 19 2011 16:12 GMT

#28

Seems like a great idea to watch all the good matches since there are so many tournaments right now, I'll register.

Edit:
Seeing the amount of votes cast would be awesome too!

Trashie

Norway131 Posts

April 19 2011 16:12 GMT

#29

Hi, good work!

Personally, I feel there was way to many buttons to click, especially for GSL. Remember, KISS!

Keep it up!

Shiladie

Canada1631 Posts

April 19 2011 16:12 GMT

#30

I fully support this idea, and will be using it in the coming months where there will be masses of games to try and go through for the amazing ones.
You should also have a stats page that gives stats for each tourny. stuff like average game rating, number of ratings above 4, number of games total, etc. From my understanding it would just be a few lines of code with some equations, but I'm not a coder so it may be more difficult...
Additionally ways to sort by matchup and order by highest ranked games, most voted on games, stuff like that.

Chill

Calgary26000 Posts

April 19 2011 16:18 GMT

#31

This is a great initiative, but if you don't have any intentions of monetizing it, I wonder if there isn't just a way to work with TL staff so that it's directly integrated into a thread.

beridoxy

France54 Posts

April 19 2011 16:28 GMT

#32

Really i like recap threads, specially when they have rating or pools on the what is worth watching.

So really usefull idea.

Best IMO would be pool YES, NO, IF YOU HAVE TIME, and a second pool with fixed options like Cheese, Carrier BC Mothership play, Innovative style, etc... Don't allow text because of spoils.
You must take care of spoils so don't show if there is a third match on a Bo3 for example but show it 1 by 1, with some see next "ajax" tricks.

I won't use the website if i have to register, there a PLENTY of starcraft website, and even if its usefull even on the TL recap there there are often only like 100 vote for VOD review pools. So it's really niche, you really should looking to integrate that with TL if possible ! Would be amazing !

OR a least ask recap threads author to link to your website.

joheinous

Iceland522 Posts

April 19 2011 16:57 GMT

#33

A good idea I can't really help rating since I'm in the same position as the OP, I just don't have the time to follow all these tournaments and even excluding some tournaments because they don't have the top players or a good structure you're still left with all the tournaments mentioned in the OP and more. So this is a welcome relief so you can stay somewhat current about the sc2 scene if you want to without having to give up on your life completely

Koibu0

United States513 Posts

April 19 2011 20:04 GMT

#34

On April 20 2011 01:28 beridoxy wrote:
...You must take care of spoils so don't show if there is a third match on a Bo3 for example but show it 1 by 1...

That is a problem, so I'm just going to take the approach of "How good was this Bo3" rather than "How good was this game in this Bo3". We run into problems with team leagues, where you want to rate each game, but then displaying who's playing is a spoiler right off the bat.

If you've got a good idea on how to eliminate spoilers from Team Leagues, I'm all ears.

dala

Sweden477 Posts

April 19 2011 20:10 GMT

#35

Great idea! This is something that I've been missing. Quite difficult to wade through all games. Can you watch your own rating history?

GL HF!

Koibu0

United States513 Posts

April 22 2011 00:02 GMT

#36

Update:
TSL3 rounds 32-8 added
VOD Links for TSL3 added
Total votes for a match added
slight visual changes and formatting.
Starting to add VOD links for other matches
[EDIT] New URL: http://www.sc2ratings.com [/EDIT]

sorry for two posts so close together, but I thought the new info warranted a bump.

[EDIT 4/22] about 85% done with pages devoted to player information. It will have:
1) A list of all the tournaments they've been in (that we have stats for)
2) Which matches they played in those tournaments
3) The results of each matches behind a spoiler tag
4) Rating of the matches and the ability to rate the matches.
5) The username and race that the player went by in that tournament
6) Perhaps some player bio info (ASL, name, etc?)
any anything else I can think of, you guys can suggest

Will have this info for all players, and will be easily accessible just by clicking on their name in a match up.

Koibu0

United States513 Posts

April 23 2011 01:17 GMT

#37

Uh oh... I see a ban in my future for bumping this, but there is a lot of new content, and editing it in to a previous post doesn't really get it noticed :/.

New content!
TSL added,
VOD links added
Total vote count added
New URL
Player Info page added (click on player names within a season)

User was temp banned for this post.

yoshi_yoshi

United States440 Posts

April 23 2011 06:57 GMT

#38

When I try to register, I get an error accessing the captcha, and it won't let me go on without it.

Final3

United States15 Posts

April 23 2011 07:12 GMT

#39

This is a fantastic idea in my opinion! Really hope it ends up working! I know I will be using/contributing to it!

Koibu0

United States513 Posts

April 23 2011 07:17 GMT

#40

On April 23 2011 15:57 yoshi_yoshi wrote:
When I try to register, I get an error accessing the captcha, and it won't let me go on without it.

I'm sorry to hear you're having problems. This is still a work in progress and it would go a long way to helping me if you could take a screen shot of the error and email/pm it to me, or even just post it here in the thread.

Thanks so much man.