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November 10, 2008 05:05 EST
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December 27, 2007

January 31, 2008

Club index page update and Club page layout changes

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Due to the increase in the number of clubs in the Archive, we have now updated the Club index page layout, which has letter indexes.

Once more clubs are added, we will obviously need to add search (probably live search) to the club pages as well.

We have also updated the layout of the individual Club pages as well, an example here with Aberdeen's page.

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January 13, 2008

Fixture data, including Scottish Cup, loaded

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Finally, we've updated the league data to include every fixture since the league started in 1890.

We've also loaded the Scottish Cup data, including every round since 1873.

We're now entering a period of validating the data, to make sure that all these results are correct, any errors you find, please let us know.

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January 8, 2008

League fixtures data nearing completion

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We are in the process of loading and validating the last few seasons of league fixture data.

Once this is complete, we want to offer the ability to run "reports" against the data, for example, head-to-head, season-by-season, by date, and more.

If you have any ideas for good ways to search the data, please get in touch.

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December 30, 2007

Image gallery and video sections added

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We've added image gallery and video sections, to the site, along with an updated layout for the top navigation.

The image gallery section is intended to show off images that currently do not have any page of their own, any suggestions for images would be greatly appreciated.

With the video section for now, we'll be adding in YouTube videos for now, until we've found enough to make this into a proper section of it's own.

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December 27, 2007

Scottish Football League Insider newsletter

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We've recently added a subscribe option to the site, for our (ideally) monthly newsletter, which is intended to give people a look at site updates, and interesting ways to use the stats etc.

One site that has a good newsletter is the Scottish Football League's League Insider, the latest issue is available here, or the archive is here.

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December 22, 2007

Honours added to the site

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We have added the start of the Honours section of the website here.

We have the PFA Players' Player of the Year , the Football Writers' Association Player of the Year, and others listed.

If you can add any further information, or want to suggest more honours, or awards to list, please get in touch.

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December 15, 2007

International data load

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We have uploaded all 678 Scottish International games data, including as much information we could get about each game.

Over the coming weeks we'll be adding data to the games, including appearance information, but for now you can search by season, opposition or competition.

We'd be interested to hear what type of searches you would like for the international data, so please get in touch by any of the usual ways.

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December 6, 2007

Email issues solved

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We have finally got to the bottom of the email issues with my host (which was down to my fault, not theirs!), so we are now receiving emails okay.

If you have sent us a mail in the last few weeks and had problems, please try again, we are receiving loud and clear.

Sorry for any problems caused.

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December 1, 2007

Player data load

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We are further increasing the amount of data for both internationals (first example, second example) and cup finals (cup final example).

The next step is to link players into the archive to produce career histories etc.

We are trying hard on many fronts to improve the data load interface, and are seeking people to help out with both loading and verification of data, if you are interested, please get in touch via the usual email address on the home page.

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November 28, 2007

Apparent lack of updates

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Although we've not posted in the blog for almost two weeks, updates are happening behind the scenes, including more data loading.

Hopefully we'll have some updated fixture data and layout to announce in the next few days.

Again, and always, please contact us if you think you can help out, or if you think there is something missing from the site.

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November 15, 2007

International data load started

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We have started upon loading the international data into the website, and the International section has been started.

If you have any information or thoughts on how to arrange the data in this area, then please get in touch.

For example, this is the Scotland v England game from 1872.

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November 12, 2007

Initial League fixture data added

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We have updated all the fixture data (League only for now), from 1890 until 2004.

It's a little bit messy for now, but you will find links to the fixtures from each of the individual league pages (for example).

Over the next few days the fixture pages will be updated, and cleaned up, and from there we will be adding in further detail to each of the fixtures (including scorers, attendance, referee, etc.

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November 6, 2007

Completed Ground/League Table data

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I have now completed all the initial 56 grounds I have information for, which includes some defunct grounds, and others of interest.

With regards to the league table data, I have now completed all professional leagues up to and including 2006-07.

I will work on the non-league data, as well as adding functions that allow you to report and aggregate league data for each club.

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November 5, 2007

More ground pictures and data added

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I have now updated over 40 of the grounds with complete information (as currently required), including Google Map location (where the zoom level is appropriate), and Flickr images (where I have personally chosen the pictures).

Also included is some capacity and record attendance information, along with some data pulled from Wikipedia.

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