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Batting Average for Baseball Type Forums · **Released**: 05-21-2004

This was requested by MLBCenter at vBulletinTemplates.

Basically, this hack averages in Post Count, Posts Per Day, and Join Time and gives an average at one thousandth of a decimal.

So it will display an average like this: .203 on both the memberinfo and postbit pages.

I hope you enjoy this hack.

Credits:

Boofo - Helping fix the code. Thanks a lot!

MLBCenter - For letting me develop this hack on his live forums.

The textfile will constantly be changing, so if you get abnormal averages either report them to me in this thread, or re-do the codes, because posts per day is a tough one to work with, since the posts per day can be very weird on a user by user basis.

Boofo · #12 05-24-2004, 05:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JCJiffy

Posts per day is based off total post counts and the join date.

Right. So if you have a new user that is posting alot (as new users often do) and a user that has been there a while but not posted in a while, then the new user will have a higher batting average than the user with a big post count. That is how this should work.

JCJiffy · #13 05-24-2004, 06:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boofo

Right. So if you have a new user that is posting alot (as new users often do) and a user that has been there a while but not posted in a while, then the new user will have a higher batting average than the user with a big post count. That is how this should work.

And to quote myself from above:

Quote:

Originally Posted by JCJiffy

Join dates are the same.

In other words, I am noticing that people with higher post counts AND higher posts per day are getting lower batting averages.

Ryan Ashbrook · #14 05-24-2004, 10:46 PM

Well, the thing about the equations is I couldn't get it to work without putting it like it is.

I'm not the best PHP coder in the world, since I've only released three hacks, and they're all basic ones.

MLBCenter · #15 05-25-2004, 12:35 AM

If anyone else can help that would be great...

Strike Three · #16 06-21-2004, 06:35 PM

Here's an idea, for an all-sports forum - give users the choice between batting average [baseball fans], QB passer rating [football fans], shooting percentage [basketball fans or hockey fans]. If you want to give this a try and would like to test it on my site, shoot me an email - chris@thesportsfans.com.

Strike Three · #17 07-02-2004, 02:22 AM

I installed this on my site, but for some reason the batting average shows up at 0.000 for anyone with 3.xx posts per day (or more?).

Ex - http://www.thesportsfans.com/forums/member.php?u=10, http://www.thesportsfans.com/forums/member.php?u=11

MLBCenter · #18 07-05-2004, 02:38 AM

There are some flaws in the BA system here - which is why we created our own way on getting a realistic batting average for all members.

Boofo · #19 07-05-2004, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MLBCenter

There are some flaws in the BA system here - which is why we created our own way on getting a realistic batting average for all members.

Would you care to share?

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