(S23) - PT 5 - A New Leaf

[Yeenoghu]

I'm sure there will be other submissions which bring up some commonly discussed topics such as forum migration or the new user experience, so I'd like to focus on the technical side of things. There are too many moving parts which rely on each other that require manual intervention, and each one of these introduces an unnecessary point of failure. If you follow the life of a point task, the steps look something like this--thread is created, users make post before deadline, graders award TPE, user adds TPE to player update page, and finally updater makes changes to sim file with new player attributes. I'd like to see the league move towards a more automated database where TPE is assigned to an external site immediately upon a task deadline passing (obviously this is problematic for subjective tasks but could be achievable for trivia, predictions, etc.). From here, the player could assign their TPE, and a single updater could export the entire league's updates at a given point in time. Of course, this is a huge amount of work, but I believe it is repeatable throughout many facets of the league (using Twitter API to award money for tweets, logging contract deposits, logging training and equipment purchases), and it would reduce the league's job overhead (no more need for multiple updaters, bankers, or an audit team).

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