lander - a live lines suggestion

I think the live lines is a nice feature...but 1 problem I run into when using it for college sports...

with so many games on the screen (almost 50 today), if I leave the "refresh" on, it kicks me back to the top...any way to keep the screen in the same spot when it refreshes? Like if I am watching #389 on the schedule, let it stay there near the bottom of the rotation while it refreshes?

not a programmer, but I guess something similar to the sportsline live score software, where everything changes but you don't actually refresh the whole page.

finals should be moved to bottom,scores hard to read also,although nice product

Tree,
I agree with your suggestion about finals .. in fact I think all games that have started should also be moved to the bottom.

Let's be honest here -- if you really need a score you go to ESPN or CBSSportsline. If you need free line shoping -- you come here

I'll talk to Kenneth about this change & see if he would like it in place.

If anyone has any objections -- speak now.

Drunkguy,
Unfortunately, the CBS solution is not an easy migration for us. I agree it would be great -- but we do not have the resources at hand to build/maintain such a system.

Would having "quick links" at the top be a nice comprise?

Maybe next to the big
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And those would be quick anchor links to jump down to the appropriate rot num?

Just brainstorming here. Your feedback is appricated & welcomed.

LANDER,

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I don't think we'll win, but I like our chances to cover.
The JETS can be run on ... so maybe the clock will just keep running before we get our asses thoroughly kicked

lander...something like that might work...just trying to scroll back through and find your game when it refreshes is a pain in the ass.

DrunkGuy,
I understand your frustrations. Until a more friendly solution is rolled out, you can always set the refresh rate to 'OFF'

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Of course, you'll need to manually refresh if you do that, or click a different rate when you're done scrolling.

Do you think a slower rate than 90 seconds might be useful?

I just looked at the live lines page and I have a couple suggestions to your problem:

1.) If you turn the refresh rate off, scroll to your game of choice, and then right-click the mouse and hit refresh, it will jump down to where you were on the page with a clean set of lines.

2.) Lander, this one is for you... I dont know what code you have behind the auto-refresh... but if you are just reloading the page, you may be able to fix his problem. If you make the code a javascript:refresh (mimic a user refresh) it may play the same and jump down to where the user was on the screen.

Hello Mike,
Thanks for the input. At one point I had a javascript refresh, but changed it to refresh it with the META refresh solution because there were issues on the WebTVs.

Mind you, that was over a year ago, and I could not tell you if WebTV has improved their product to bet support scripting. I have never used the product myself, so it was tough to troubleshoot.

Regards,
Me

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