Albion Man of the Match

[ROSM]

Depends. Is the ability to award the MotM a deal-breaker for the sponsors? If they didn't have that right would people still sponsor games? I don't know the answer to this.

And we might get more than 5,000. I just picked a figure at random. Say we charged 80p and took 50p of that and had 8.000 people voting - that's £4000 a week. Or we could have 500 people voting and don't make enough for Vicente's medical bills. One big incentive could be away supporters voting - if we want to outvote them, that would be encouragement to vote early and often.

I'd have thought it was worth a trial - if it's a flop, then don't do it, but it could be a decent revenue stream for the club.

As I mentioned earlier on it could be added to make a player of the month or go towards the player of the season. We could offer it for away games too.

I think its a money spinner

 

[Mellotron]

You not like pussy then

"Frothing at the gash". Really?

 

[smoke grenade]

"Frothing at the gash". Really?

Heavan bro, be gushing after i gobbed all over it

 

[Bozza]

Read my mind! I agree, why not have an NSC MOTM?!

I've done it on a couple of occasions when I felt the official MotM was way off.

What I've wanted to do for a while is a way of doing fully hosted player ratings. By that I mean there would be a thread that has a poll-like addition at the top. Each player is listed and you have to give each and every player a score from 1-10 before you can submit.

These would then be tallied to produce a MoTM and then subsequently aggregated to do a Player of the month and then, ultimately, player of the season. We might look to award a bottle of champagne, or similar, to each player of the month, and we'd buy a trophy and look to have some NSCers present the award.

Unfortunately there's no standard way of doing this in vBulletin and despite putting out a call to pay a developer to build a plugin for us, no-one has been forthcoming yet. I'll look to get something in place for 2012-13 onwards.

 

[halbpro]

I've done it on a couple of occasions when I felt the official MotM was way off.

What I've wanted to do for a while is a way of doing fully hosted player ratings. By that I mean there would be a thread that has a poll-like addition at the top. Each player is listed and you have to give each and every player a score from 1-10 before you can submit.

These would then be tallied to produce a MoTM and then subsequently aggregated to do a Player of the month and then, ultimately, player of the season. We might look to award a bottle of champagne, or similar, to each player of the month, and we'd buy a trophy and look to have some NSCers present the award.

Unfortunately there's no standard way of doing this in vBulletin and despite putting out a call to pay a developer to build a plugin for us, no-one has been forthcoming yet. I'll look to get something in place for 2012-13 onwards.

I could do it pretty simply if it sits outside of vBulletin. Haven't looked at the vBulletin plugin architecture before though.

 

[Bozza]

I could do it pretty simply if it sits outside of vBulletin. Haven't looked at the vBulletin plugin architecture before though.

It would need to be within vBulletin, and the MySQL DB that sits behind it, in order to require NSC membership and ensure each member only votes once etc.

 

[Mellotron]

Heavan bro, be gushing after i gobbed all over it

Just makes it sound like it's infested with rabies.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

It would need to be within vBulletin, and the MySQL DB that sits behind it, in order to require NSC membership and ensure each member only votes once etc.

Of course we dont want any ACCUSATIONS of vote rigging do we!

 

[halbpro]

It would need to be within vBulletin, and the MySQL DB that sits behind it, in order to require NSC membership and ensure each member only votes once etc.

Yeah I presumed that'd be the issue. MySQL isn't an issue, I use it anyway (in fact queries are sitting on my other screen right now). If I get a moment this week I'll have a look at vBulletin and see if it'd be something I could work with. The actual backend architecture seems like it would be simple (you could do some fun stuff with the presentation too), but it's the building it into vBulletin bit I don't know about.

Be a good experience for me regardless, the more you know etc...

 

[MattBackHome]

LOVING how this thread has diverged in to two distinct but concurrent topics:

1) The mechanics of building a plugin within/distinct from vBulletin and,
2) The merits of the term "frothing at the gash."

Bravo again, NSC!

 

[Bozza]

Yeah I presumed that'd be the issue. MySQL isn't an issue, I use it anyway (in fact queries are sitting on my other screen right now). If I get a moment this week I'll have a look at vBulletin and see if it'd be something I could work with. The actual backend architecture seems like it would be simple (you could do some fun stuff with the presentation too), but it's the building it into vBulletin bit I don't know about.

Be a good experience for me regardless, the more you know etc...

There are ways of building hooks into the vBulletin authentication system. vbulletin.org would be a useful resource as the home of vBulletin modifications.

 

[les dynam]

I had to select a man-of-the-match a couple of seasons ago. I'll be honest with you... i pretty much knew who was getting that award BEFORE the game had even started! My number 1 favourite player was getting that award, no matter how well or badly he played.

 

[halbpro]

There are ways of building hooks into the vBulletin authentication system. vbulletin.org would be a useful resource as the home of vBulletin modifications.

Yes, I assumed it would be hooks (similar to WordPress). I'll have a look into it.