FakePuppy Points Leaders

New fakepuppy page up called Points.

Trying something new adding a different dimension to fakepuppy. Let's see what happens when we take the focus off of fake money and shift to winning bets. Here's how it works:

• 5 points for a betting win (any bet type, any amount)
• -2 points (minus 2) for any betting loss (any bet type, any amount)
• 10 bonus points for a lock win

The first goal is to win the day. Each day your "daily points" reset. Points really don't go anywhere they just reset each day for daily ranking purposes.

The second way to win is to win the week. Weeks run from Monday-Sunday. Your daily points accumulate to equal your weekly totals. After each week, weekly points reset.

Not sure if we can take it a step further. Maybe this could turn in to actually winning something by winning the week or even the month.

Geek speak alert: The points are all based on SQL queries so they are up-to-the-minute unlike some of the other features on fakepuppy. For example, Central is based on aggregate tables and only updated once per day (at around 6am ET). Maybe the only downside is that it's a little more CPU intensive on the server side. What's it all mean? If it seems slower than Central let me know, but it's been pretty snappy so far. I don't expect any issues.

About the Points page: To select the period (e.g. Today, yesterday) just select the value in the drop down list and it will automatically display the data. Use the "refresh" button only when you want to refresh the current value that's been selected in the drop down list. Maybe you have todays points up on your browser and 30 minutes later after games go final you want to see the updated points just click "refresh". If you refresh the page undesirable things happen (the drop down list doesn't match the data).

About the columns on the Points page:

• Points : Total points
• PB : Points behind leader
• W: Bet wins
• L : Bet Losses
• Win% : Bet winning pct
• LW : Lock wins
  
• CB : current bets (good to know if someone still has open bets to gain (or lose) points)

You can use the comments section to add your thoughts - just use your fakepuppy name so I know who to ban when you disagree with me.

Going to try and put some more info on the fakepuppy dev blog to give everyone an idea what's going on. I have a bunch of older stuff that I never put up and I may some day.