Blunder Database - bugs and suggestions
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Closing this for now. If there are more suggestions or bugs for blunder database, please create a new feedback request.
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Aurelio Sanabria 🇨🇷 (sufrostico)
Hi!
Awesome functionality.
An additional feature to consider would be to add notes to the individual blunders to study later or to check with friends.
That would be great to study specially for us beginners �
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Wayne Joseph (sharkeye)
Hi Alfie, congratulations and thanks for giving us this really cool feature!
Just an idea, but might it add insight/additional interest if we were able to compare our blunder metrics with the/an average?
Maybe even have an user adjustable PR range so the users can compare themselves against the aggregate of players of a similar level?
I've made a mock-up of what the feature may look like (attached)
I hope you might agree and implement it. Happy to answer any questions you may have.
Cheers!
Wayne J
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Wayne Joseph (sharkeye)
Oh - forgot to say the most important part!
The core insights from this data may well inform us of areas in our game where we are relatively underperforming compared to our peers of a similar PR - allowing us to refocus our training on our personalised and specific 'weaknesses'
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Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]
Wayne Joseph (sharkeye) thanks for your suggestion. There are limitations of the database tech I'm using that would make this quite difficult. I'd have to scan the db for players with similar PRs, and then pull down all their recent blunders for comparison. Would be data intensive and the db is "pay as you go".
You can kind of do this in a manual way. For each blunder it shows your opponent and you can then view their blunder database. Not ideal but maybe something
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Wayne Joseph (sharkeye)
Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer] thanks for your reply.
I might have a viable idea for how the cost of the database calls could be substantially minimised:
My guess is it wouldn't be necessary 'real-time', multi-decimal point precision, requiring 1000s of calls every minute. As your database probably has 10,000s of matches to refer to, maybe could just pull the set of individual metrics (at each integer PR step)
once a month
or so?I doubt there would be much significant variance in month to month movement as, with a larger sample size of 1000s, these things tend to average out?
At least this is what my intuition tells me. I could well be wrong!
Would like to hear if you think this solution is viable and effective? It would certainly and substantially reduce compute load & costs.
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Richard Jones 🇬🇧 (gm1myf)
Hi Alfie, this is a great addition to an already fantastic Backgammon site - Thankyou. Is it possible to view blunders by match played or to have a link to the blunders for each individual match?
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Denis-George Constantin (playhunter)
Richard Jones 🇬🇧 (gm1myf)
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Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]
Richard Jones 🇬🇧 (gm1myf) glad you like it!
Does Denis-George's screenshot answer your question? I could somehow group blunders by match, but the match details (specifically your opponent) are only available after you click on a blunder, so there would be limited information while browsing blunders.
Also, you may not have found it but you can click on each match in your history, view the analysis and filter your blunders using the options in the left menu. See attached.
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Richard Jones 🇬🇧 (gm1myf)
Alfie Kirkpatrick [Developer]Ah brilliant!! I had never spotted that option before just what I want - thankyou.