EPL Talk - Latest Comments in How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

The Gaffer — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:25:51 -0000

Phil,

Any chance of expanding this idea to La Liga and Serie A also? This way, football fans can look across all of the major leagues on telly and pick and choose which would be the best matches to watch.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

SSReporters — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:46:07 -0000

So I guess Bolton will be getting 2s and 3s forever? :D

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Phil McThomas — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:12:36 -0000

User ratings is something I'll add in the future when this hits a critical mass.

The problem is that if very few people vote, the ratings are not very useful - mostly colored by whether your team won or not! It would be hard to give an 8 or 9 to a game where your team lost a two goal lead in the final minutes.

But a human element would be great to help differenciate between boring or enthralling low-scoring games.

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

AtlantaPompey — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:37:05 -0000

What a fantastic idea. I do like the idea that jm added of a user score. If you've seen a match, log in and rate it yourself. More info can only help. I'm signing up immediately. I frequently record several matches in one weekend and want to see the most entertaining one, in addition to the Pompey match. Adding Champions League matches would be great too. I always record those and watch them that night.

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

DublinerInKentucky — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:40:54 -0000

Want to add...
The purist in me is shocked that I would agree that something like this is good...after all, I have been telling my American naysayers that some of the best games of football I have watched over the years have been 0-0 or 1-0 games (ie to an american LOW SCORING)
BUT
with 3 kids and coaching games on the weekends...the trouble and strife gives me the evils sometimes when I disappear for the Saturday or Sunday afternoon to watch 3 games and there she is outside in 100 degree weather, 8 months pregnant and mowing the grass....nahhh just kidding...it was only 98 in the shade

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Todd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:34:12 -0000

my only concern is i try and over think these things. i dont even like someone telling me it was a good game, because if its 2-0 in the 75th minute, i know somethings about to happen. if i see man utd v hull is rated an 8 does that mean united scored 5 goals or it was a thrilling 1-1? what is the standard ya know? either way, excellent idea and i hope its successful

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

jm — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:45:54 -0000

Though I have no means of taping matches, if I did, I would use this website! Kudos on an excellent idea!

What about adding a second score, a user score, for each game? Particularly as you build a fan base, your readers can vote on the strength of the games they've seen by the same scale. That way your readers will get the objectively derived score, and the user score, both of which could be useful, but tell you something different. Anyway, best of luck with the continued development of your site!

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Martin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:54:06 -0000

Fantastic idea. I've read epltalk for years, never wrote here, but this is a great tool for determining which game to watch that doesn't involve your team and with Murphy's rule going strong, I always seem to pick the wrong game on DVR. Can't wait to use it! Well done. Cheers.

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Weston — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:38:14 -0000

Good idea...now I just need the channels that actually carry the games!

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

DublinerInKentucky — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:05 -0000

Great idea....count me in...I'm heading over there to sign up right now...plus I'll send your link to my football forum mates an all..nice one
Dave

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Phil McThomas — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:49:45 -0000

I'll definitely see if I can add Champions League matches. It shouldn't be difficult.

Hey...I think you should sign-up for the mailing list, so I can let you know if it's available. :)

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Chris — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:35:19 -0000

I think this is a great idea. I won't have to resort to asking my girlfriend or friends to give me a vague idea if I should watch the match. If you do this for Champion's League matches too, I'll give you my first born.

I'm definitely going to check this out.

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

Phil McThomas — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:58:23 -0000

Cheers, Gaffer.

The ratings are completely automated. The method is fairly simple right now - it just looks at the number of goals and how close the game was. I can refine this over the course of time.

Re: How to Watch the Best Premier League Game of the Day

The Gaffer — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:39:46 -0000

It's a fantastic idea Phil and it's a feature I've already used to great success and will plan on using throughout the season for those times when I can't watch games live.

How is the match ratings calculated? Is it done manually or is it automated - and if the latter, is this something you'll be revealing (somewhat similar to the algorithms that Google uses for its search engines)?

Congrats Phil on a revolutionary idea.

Cheers,
The Gaffer