I do see where you're coming from about starting again and I take it as no criticism. And I appreciate that the Danish leagues are well out of date. As Nino has stated, we simply haven't had enough volunteers to help with anything but the most commonly played leagues. If somebody had offered to help research Denmark then it would be up to date. Ultimately we have relied on a very small team of dedicated people who have helped keep the main leagues completely up to date - and then there's Manimal who covers a huge amount of stuff all by himself (he does far too much work IMO).ElQuapo wrote:Yes, but we are still basically working with a 10 year old database that started out as a faked one.nino33 wrote:There are editors. The editing is done with an EHM07 database (so the old Pregame Editor and the new Updater can both still be used), which is then imported into EHM:EAElQuapo wrote:If an editor is released I would be happy to help as much as possible.
Starting from an empty database would remove a lot of waste and leftover stuff from the last 10 years
The thing is, I don't think starting again would help with any of the leagues that are actively researched. They're already up to date and so deleting and re-importing those players won't achieve anything for those leagues (because they'll just be exactly the same as they are). I can see how removing players from the very out of date leagues would remove old players - but if there's nobody researching those leagues then even if we were to import all of the new rosters they would all sit there unrated. As much as having various out of date/retired players in Denmark, etc is not great, nor is having up to date rosters with no ratings (because EHM will give them all extremely low CAs meaning that many will retire after one season).
For me, the real solution is:
1. We need more researchers who can deal with out of date leagues (thankfully we now have a Danish researcher who is getting started); and
2. We need some volunteers to go through the free agents in the database and check whether or not they should be retired.
I'm really not sure what the waste and leftover stuff is. Can you clarify? I can see how Denmark and other out of date leagues most likely have players who not retired, but I don't see what else is waste.
We do have various editors we use to maintain the DB. Drop Manimal or I a PM and we can discuss how you can help. I'm in the same position as you - when EHM 2007 was released I was a student but now a I work fairly long hours and so I just fit it around other things as and when I can.ElQuapo wrote:If an editor is released I would be happy to help as much as possible. Unfortunately I don't have as much time on my hands as when EHM2007 came out, as I was a student back thenbatdad wrote:Maybe it would be,. You should try it out and let us know.
Such a great job to you guys!
