Offline Game Viewer

[gstelmack]

Not sure if this folder or the Mods folder is more appropriate for utilities, so let me know if I should move this.

I have released a beta version of my BBCF Offline Game Viewer. This is based on my FOF Game Viewer (for those familiar with it), so will end up with a similar feature set, but still needs a fair amount of work to parse the new game logs. It is expected that this will be most useful to multiplayer leagues, but may help single player games by letting you go back and watch games you missed the first time through. The viewer is available from:

http://www.gstelmack.com/bbcfviewer/publish.htm

A couple of notes:

1) I'm trying to publish / auto-update stuff in .NET 2.0. Once you go to this link once to install, from then on out you should just have to run the game locally from your start menu and it will auto-update if I release a new version. So far it looks like this is working okay, but if it causes too many fits I'll switch to a traditional installer / RSS feed to keep everyone updated. Only known issue is that Firefox doesn't seem to like to run .NET bits, so you may need to use IE to do the initial install.

2) I have no clue who the home / away team are, so this will be wrong for all games. I have a couple of options (with parsing the corresponding box score my final fallback), but won't revisit this until after the BBCF update comes out.

3) It can take a short bit to start up, as it has to open each game log file to find out what teams are playing, and each league has over a thousand games in it. More work will come on this, but for now be patient.

4) The ONLY lines that are actually parsed for anything are:

• Possession / Time / Down / Distance lines
• Offensive Formation / Playcall
• Defensive Formation / Playcall
• Kickoff / return

No other lines will be parsed or handled properly just yet. My primary goal from here out is to finish parsing the rest of the lines, but if you watch how kickoffs are handled you'll get a feel for how I expect the general game flow to go.

Having said all that, the basic functionality is there. Field position will be marked, first down marker will be available, drive start is shown, score updates, etc. It is usable. I plan on updating regularly as I parse more and more lines and get more and more of the stats handled.

If anyone is aware of an endzone logo mod, please let me know as I should be able to incorporate them, but I have nothing to test with.