Freezing Saddles Scoreboard backend "soft launch"

[hozn]

Hi folks –

I’ve gone ahead and pushed out a new version of the Freezing Saddles scoreboard / data analysis application. Most of the guts are the same, though the Strava API library had to be rewritten (since their new API is very different). Also, the site layout looks much different (better), thanks to jrenaut!

At this point we don’t have teams yet (it’s just configured for the single “BikeArlington” club), so there’s really no data, but if you’d like to help us iron out bugs, please go ahead and authorize this app to read your Strava data!

http://freezingsaddles.com/authorize

Once we have some more authorization tokens (i.e. the auth codes we get when you allow this app to read your data), we can work out any bugs related to ride synchronization. And once we have more data, we can start building out a few of the other pages we want to create. (E.g. we’ll have a text-only scoreboard reminiscent of ronwalf’s from last year with clickable links; the Google charts are cool, but not so useful for drilling down to Strava club or athlete pages, etc.)

Any feedback appreciated, of course.

And when the mechanics are working smoothly I’ll turn my attention back to developing some cool branding.

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[hozn]

Ok, folks. We now round to 3 decimal places when we store distance data. This should ensure that if you type “1.0” miles in for distance, it will actually be 1.0 miles in the database. This also means we round down, of course.

The only ride that was affected by this change was a 1.0 mile ride on Jan 12 by Rob O. (Presumably Mikey’s rides would also be correct now, if he were to change them back to “1.0” instead of “1.01”.)

@dasgeh, your ride yesterday was 1.02 miles and so your point total for yesterday was 11.02 points.

I will give some thought to how we can make the ride totals more transparent on the site so as to prevent confusion or second-guessing about how your rides are being counted (or not). Perhaps something as simple as adding a “points” column to the “People” table would help.

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