World Masters Athletics Rankings update (mastersathletics.co – yes, it is .co not ) Please keep telling people; encouraging athletes to use the system, submit their own results, navigate around and provide feedback on features, issues, etc.; and most importantly, encourage anyone who can afford to and thinks it is a worthwhile venture to contribute (there are donation links and links to an address for mailing on the sites). These donations are the only means of helping me afford to develop and maintain the system so far. It just occurred to me that some people are only seeing some of my frequent posts so they are not necessarily informed on what I am talking about. Those who are not familiar please review the postings on facebook/USATFMastersRankings which start on January 30, 2014. I was able to correct a fair amount of duplicates today (and got bleary eyed so I stopped). Also was able to convert and insert performances from The Netherlands and Portugal (I forgot to mention Portugal yesterday). The 2013 rankings are slowly taking shape with the few thousand performances I added over the past couple of days. I hope you are asking anyone you know to submit their marks and asking your country’s representatives to get me performances so the rankings will come together quickly. I will be able to get any files sent to me done quicker as I refine and improve my methods. Let’s not forget 2014 indoor and outdoor seasons. My priority has been to try to get the programs working and get 2013 performances gathered. I have received some 2014 Indoor and Outdoor results and will try to get as many of the indoor results inserted before the WMA Championships so you can see how people are doing before you get there. US Athletes: Please note I am holding off merging the US performances with the world until I have finished with the database structure so I only have to covert the data once. Please be patient. You can enter your 2013 marks into the World ranking if you would like to either “play” with the system (please enter real marks so they are not distracting to anyone) and 2014 marks too. The 2014 marks will remain in the database – the 2013 results will be deleted when I do the merge. There was a small change I made over the past few days I forgot to mention: all country abbreviations are per the IOC (Olympic) – they seemed more recognizable that way. Does everyone like the website? Please let me know how I can improve it.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 06:04:39 +0000
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