Just a bit of thanks for CommishJoe!

[Sports1131]

I am surprised that there aren't as many people as I thought talking about the BOSI systen that CommishJoe came up with. The thing is absolutely incredible and can redefine every single OOTP league.

I thought of starting a league last year, but I thought it was stupid how everyone just basically exported the HTML files from the game and used that as their site. I was disappointed with the CSV Exporter this year. But then Joe came along. I don't plan on using his great PHP scripts because I want to be able to fully customize everything about my site and make it look exactly how I want it, and I only know ASP. However, I do use the brilliant exporter that accompanies BOSI. With that, I was able to import that into a MySQL database using ASP and use the data to create pages for my upcoming league. The entire importing process takes about 3 minutes per day.

I just want to show you a very, very early example of how this can be used.

http://www.sportsgi.com/sgibl/test.asp

That link will import all the statistics from the CSV files that you upload to the server after running his utility. The exporter takes about 15 seconds to complete and the upload takes about a minute. This link does everything for you and takes about two minutes. You might not want to visit it though as it is really nothing special.

http://sportsgi.com/sgibl/players.asp?PlayerID=1067

This link is a sample player page (still in early stages) Using a simple query string, you can make one player template apply for every player in only one file so your server does not get cluttered and it is easy to edit them all at once.

Anyways, I just wanted to post this to thank Joe for his hard work and help promote his fantastic product. Without this I know I wouldn't even consider running a league.

By the way, the pages I have linked to are not going to look like that at all. It will be inside a nice layout and will have plenty of color and I guarantee it won't be so bland.

Thanks Joe!

[wireman]

Thank you, indeed.

The World League's using BOSI and it's enhanced my enjoyment a lot. Great work!