{"id":781,"date":"2012-07-04T09:32:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=781"},"modified":"2012-07-04T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:32:39","slug":"new-functionality-and-a-little-more-data-on-tennisabstract-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/new-functionality-and-a-little-more-data-on-tennisabstract-com\/","title":{"rendered":"New Functionality (and a little more data) on TennisAbstract.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a title=\"TennisAbstract.com,\u00a0Supersized\" href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/tennisabstract-com-supersized\/\">meta-sizing<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\">TennisAbstract.com<\/a> database, I&#8217;ve focused on making each player page more useful and functional. \u00a0Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Show Career&#8221; link.<\/strong> \u00a0By default, most pages show a player&#8217;s matches for the last 52 weeks. \u00a0When you start applying filters, the number of matches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=RogerFederer&amp;f=&amp;q=MikhailYouzhny\">shrinks heavily<\/a>. \u00a0In many cases, what you really want is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=RogerFederer&amp;f=A0&amp;q=MikhailYouzhny\">that set of filters applied to the player&#8217;s whole career<\/a>. Now, there&#8217;s a &#8220;show career&#8221; link at the bottom of every list of matches. \u00a0(Unless, of course, the table is already displaying the full career!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apply filters to a new player.<\/strong> \u00a0A few days ago, a reader sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=RafaelNadal&amp;f=A0DWimbledonqqE3i4i5i6P5\">this link<\/a>, carefully constructed from four different filters, with four selections in one of the filters. \u00a0Once you&#8217;ve done all that work, what if you want to see the same filters applied to a different player? \u00a0Now, instead of repeating the process, enter the player into the search box below the match list, and <em>voila!<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=RogerFederer&amp;f=A0DWimbledonqqE3i4i5i6P5\">the filters are applied to another player<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ctrl-Click for multiple selections.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never liked the behavior of the menus for multiple selections. \u00a0By default, if you clicked on a second selection, the page assumed you wanted both. \u00a0For instance, to change from &#8220;hard&#8221; to &#8220;clay,&#8221; for instance, you had to click on &#8220;clay,&#8221; then click on &#8220;hard&#8221; again to deselect &#8220;hard.&#8221; \u00a0Now, these selections behave more intuitively. \u00a0If you want multiple selections, hold down the control key while clicking on a filter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More filters for best-of-five matches.<\/strong> \u00a0If you haven&#8217;t looked recently, check out the menus for &#8220;Results&#8221; and &#8220;Sets.&#8221; \u00a0Now you can search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=JoWilfriedTsonga&amp;f=A0F5\">five-setters where a player lost the first two sets<\/a>, or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=AndyMurray&amp;f=P4\"> best-of-fives that went exactly four sets<\/a>, and so on. \u00a0By splitting these into two menus, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=DavidFerrer&amp;f=F1P0\">more possible queries<\/a> than ever.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exclude players from results.<\/strong> \u00a0How impressive are Juan Martin del Potro&#8217;s results this year if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/cgi-bin\/player.cgi?p=JuanMartinDelPotro&amp;f=A1&amp;x=RogerFederer\">exclude his losses<\/a> to Roger Federer? \u00a0The &#8220;Exclude Opp&#8221; menu makes it easy to answer questions like these.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More Davis Cup coverage.<\/strong> \u00a0I&#8217;ve added World Group Playoffs (or Challenge Rounds, or Qualifying Rounds, or whatever they called them from one year to the next) from 1981 to 2002. \u00a0Now World Group results are complete back to 1981, along with Group 1 and Group 2 back to 1993. \u00a0Still more to come.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of these came directly from reader suggestions. \u00a0I do appreciate every comment even though I can&#8217;t act on them all. \u00a0Many suggestions aren&#8217;t yet reflected on the site, but are moving their way up the to-do list. \u00a0 Let me know what would make the site more valuable to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since meta-sizing the TennisAbstract.com database, I&#8217;ve focused on making each player page more useful and functional. \u00a0Here are the highlights: &#8220;Show Career&#8221; link. \u00a0By default, most pages show a player&#8217;s matches for the last 52 weeks. \u00a0When you start applying filters, the number of matches shrinks heavily. \u00a0In many cases, what you really want is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/new-functionality-and-a-little-more-data-on-tennisabstract-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Functionality (and a little more data) on TennisAbstract.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-abstract"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}