notes.md

ToDo

• Player noisiness is a real issue if they missed the first X games. Currently not figuring for it but should
• Not a huge issue given running data stuff atm, but it's there
• Should probably reconcile cumulative stats starting at 0 for people midway but NaN for calculated
• Really just clean up build_site.sh and multipleWorksheets.pl!

Migrate to D3 v4

• Ticks might be easier to manipulate https://github.com/d3/d3-array/blob/master/README.md#ticks
• Selections https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/master/CHANGES.md#selections-d3-selection
• Transitions https://github.com/d3/d3/blob/master/CHANGES.md#transitions-d3-transition
• d3.active allows chained transitions for example
• Colors are different, and now have opacity (who cares?) and perhaps new color scales

Revamp plan

• Deal with double-headers. Easy to just advance day by one but ugly. Prettier than the code needed for a workaround though...
• Convert to python, R?
• Change as many elements as possible from px to (r)em
• Link to schedule on main page? Or show upcoming/next game(s)?
• Videos? gh-pages can't embed, but maybe plyr.js can?
• Zoom, reset https://github.com/d3/d3-zoom
• http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3892928 and http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4dc8736fb1ce9799c6d6

Front page rewrite

• Recalibrate threshold - maybe move toward specific values (5 for lifetime, 3 for running, 2 for season?)
• Figure out how much I can (mostly) stop skipping data and just let the noise in on the lifetime and season pages
• Could create player page alongside data, but might need to swap masterDates and dudes order in masterData parsing
• Link game dates in graph or table or something to individual pages?

Stats

• More content! 👍 💯 👍
• Could we maybe do an ELO score? Curious how this would look year to year, maybe manually grab data from facebook?
• Would probably need to be a separate workflow
• Team stats (RF/RA), PCA plots?
• Calcuate oWAR from full team averages? Need to reform wOBA first and look toward RAA
• How do I calculate wOBA scale? Scaled to OBP but what does that mean?
• Could show team average, at least for calculated stats
• Individual stats with predictions, goal AVG? Would need player pages...
• Can I pull this info from masterData? Maybe.
• Show lifetime graph and list per-season stat lines?
• Or good place to show some sort of scatter graph? I'm sure some saber site has a good example
• Or perhaps one of those radial diagrams? With various stats? Relates to PCA...

JS

• Skip some x-axis labels to save space. Should probably extend margin a bit...
• Check out D3plus? https://github.com/alexandersimoes/d3plus/ and http://d3plus.org/examples/advanced/9862486/
• Or Chartjs? https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js
• Labels overlap, how can I deal with that? Force-directed?
• Or use a legend? http://d3-legend.susielu.com or http://www.competa.com/blog/2015/07/d3-js-part-7-of-9-adding-a-legend-to-explain-the-data/
• Check out pre-rendering: https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/d3-pre
• Requires some npm stuff first...