Parity App: Leaderboards etc

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Submitted by Kevin Hughes on Wed, 2017-03-08 23:27

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I made a few changes to the Parity app tonight, notably adding a Leaderboards page!

The stats search now remembers your search if you switch weeks and the week view shows the salary change instead of the total to focus more on the weeks performance. Total salary is now only on the all tab.

Feedback and feature requests welcome, as always I'm happy to help anyone interested in contributing.

Code changes:

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Hadrian Mertins...

Thu, 2017-03-09 12:54

Nice additions, Kevin!

Sebastien Belanger

Thu, 2017-03-09 14:32

Kevin’s job is to do programming. It’s a big job with big time commitments and, considering how little he gets paid, I don’t really expect much more than that. Now that he’s going to provide us with stats, I think it’s only fair that the rest of us step up and add the narrative / nonsense.

Goals

All the usual suspect are here (Ashlin, Hadrian, Marcus etc…), what blows me away is how Jason Fraser can make this list time after time. Don’t people know that he wants to run to the end zone! He “no longer” has "elite" speed, but he seems to have elite skills in making people underestimate his ability to go deep. So if you’re covering Jason Fraser (which I plan to avoid since he obviously likes to run), make him handle. Honorable mention goes to my long time teammate Aggy for making this list even though he doesn’t have quite the same name recognition as others leaderboard players.

Assists

Sina is doing a nice job here of leading the league, fending off talented handlers like Justine Price and Justine Price(s). What I’m impressed with is how Keates has gone from someone who regularly overthrew cutters with flicks that had little to no touch to now being one of the best throwers in the league. Keates has been performing at a high level all season on the field and on the forum. Keep up the Owen like work and you might even get the Owen award (obviously after Owen has retired). Honorable mentions go to two utility players in Andrew and Michael for stepping up to do some serious handling for their respective teams.

Catches

How in god’s green earth is Hadrian catching the disc this often? Is he playing every single point? When I watch a game with everyone else on this list (Brian, Josee, Craig etc...), it looks like they are figurative black holes for the disc. Does that mean Hadrian is literally a black hole where the gravitational pull around his hair is so great as to attract plastic objects anywhere in his vicinity? Someone needs to measure this with some scientific instrumentation.

Completions

This is a nice mix of people who get open and who like to pick up the disc at the beginning of the point. If you are on this list but are also on the Throwaway list, I suggest you might want to start letting other people pick up the disc or start valuing the posession more. Yes, that was a shot at myself and my teammate Sina. Hadrian also shows up on both lists but considering the gravitational pull and everything, I’m not shocked a few of his discs don’t make it to their destination.

D-Blocks

I agree with Keates. I should not be leading any statistical category unless it’s throwaways. I suggest that some of the athletes in this league start trying harder on defense to rectify the situation. Other players who should not be on this list are Matthew Schijns (#statkeepinggate) and Allessandro Colonnier (I think parity rules dictate that Allesandro’s only try hard on offense).

Throwaway’s and Drops

No need to call anyone out here. If you’re on these lists, just know that the sideline is watching the game when the disc is travelling to you / being thrown by you and thinking to themselves “I have no idea what is going to happen here” which kind of makes Parity Great.

Thuc Nguyen

Fri, 2017-03-10 16:50

 A D block is only worth 8000 which is less than a point or an assist and as valuiable as a second assist.  Why bother playing D?

Justine Price

Fri, 2017-03-10 23:09

A goal and assist are each worth $10 000. A D block is worth $8000.

8 000 big fat fantasy dollars, Thuc.

Fantasy.

Like your defense. You'd love it.

Sebastien Belanger

Sat, 2017-03-11 09:16

BOOM! Ma ma J dropping some knowledge on little Thuc and he's not even in this league :-)

Matthew Schijns

Sat, 2017-03-11 10:14

Also....in a case of stating the obvious 

You can't get a goal or an assist if you are on D. 

Geofford Seaborn

Sat, 2017-03-11 10:51

While you can't collect assists, you can certainly score a goal on defense. 

Matthew Schijns

Sat, 2017-03-11 11:24

....

 

you are correct. 

Point noted. 

Thuc Nguyen

Mon, 2017-03-13 16:48

Just saying.

Thuc Nguyen

Mon, 2017-03-13 16:47

My initial statement is true, no correction needed.  A D-block is worth less than a goal or primary assist.

A D-block should be worth more.  In an average parity game, how many D blocks are there and how many goals are scored?  That ratio is how much more a D block should be worth.than a point.  The rarer the occurrence the more the worth of the activity.

Geofford Seaborn

Mon, 2017-03-13 16:53

So your turnovers should be worth more than mine, then?

Alex Bush

Mon, 2017-03-13 17:09

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/11/OohBurn.gif

Christopher Keates

Mon, 2017-03-13 17:18

It's less than a goal or assist. Based on analysis of the data we get, every turnover you force is worth ~0.45G for or against you, depending. If the point of the salary was to accurate model frisbee, arguably a D block should be less than it is, or $4,500 (same for throwaway or drop).

Beyond this, the salary is a gimmick! The economy will self-correct regardless of how we value a D (unless a D is valued extremely high or low relative to other events), and D is hard to value beyond that because the player who gets the D very often isn't the guy that forced the hard/rushed throw.

Jason Fraser

Fri, 2017-03-10 09:21

The real reason you don't want to cover me is that I don't throw the disk enough for you to get a chance to get more handblocks!