Researcher Volunteers Needed!

[archibalduk]

The developers of Franchise Hockey Manager are looking for volunteers to help with database research for game. Please see the message below from Jeff Riddolls for more details. If you're interested, you can either send a PM to Jeff on the OOTP Forums or alternatively send me a PM via The Blue Line and I will speak with Jeff for you.

If you have any questions about what the task involves, etc please feel free to ask in this thread. I have been a researcher and tester since before the summer and should be able to answer any questions about the role.

Here's the details from Jeff:

We've added a few researchers in the run-up to the beta release, but we still have some volunteer research positions we'd like to fill ASAP. They are:

• OHL (this is the highest priority, we want it playable in the first version)
• Slovakia
• Switzerland
• Central Hockey League
• NCAA Division I (possibly broken down by conference, but I'd prefer having one person doing it all)

(those four are less likely to be playable - the Central, Swiss and Slovak leagues might be, but not the NCAA. We'd just like complete data there because it's such a large source of players.)

Rating players is the "fun" part of the job, but fair warning: you'd also need to be doing stuff like checking/fixing team data, entering player biographical data (some of it's already there, but frequently stuff is missing), and the other boring, not-so-fun things that comprise the majority of hockey database work.

The OHL job will require a lot of time over the next month, the other ones won't be quite so urgent.