iPad apps?

[Shteve0]

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[mzukerman]

Looks great. I agree with tilting, nice to have. I haven't used the web tool before, but being able to enter a full player's stats would be nice and have the calculator show stats based on chances of taking someone down or being taken down. Like http://bbtactics.com/blocking-statistics-odds-tables/. I have players with wrestle and tackle that I would benefit from knowing the odds for. Maybe also have a team field so I can have my players "practice" so I can see who should go after whom on the other team.

Great job so far!

[danton]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll look into the landscape option for a future update.

@mzukerman - adding skills like Wrestle is a bit superfluous, because if you know that a Both Down result is good enough on a block, then you just need to select that as one of the 'block dice needed' switches. I don't want to overload the app with too many features if possible in order to keep it lean and focused on being good at what it does.

[Shteve0]

Hello mate, great job!

Very interesting app. It clearly works, but is very specialist - it essentially becomes relevant for stacked odds calculations where each known individual roll is clear. A few tweaks would take it a great deal further.

For example, as others have said, if you had an Action calculator along these lines, but where you enter in the player's stats (and number of tackle zones/pass distance/really sunny/disturbing pres for throwing, for example) that would be fab for new players.

In my dream scenario you'd also have a Block tab where two of the database players could block each other, with odds of Attacker Down, Both Bown, Push, Defender Down, Stun, KO, Chart.

Some testing feedback (I hope you have thick skin):

Is it just me, or in a player set up is block not an option?

If I pull to the right on "Add Player", I get an option to delete the button.

In Pass action, I have a option for "Cat...", though it's not clear what that is?

[danton]

The app is aimed more at experienced coaches rather than at rookies. So you are expected to know the modifiers for rolls rather having a large check list of possible modifiers for each action and having the App calculate what you need to roll. It's relatively easy to work out over the board if you need say a 3+ dodge followed by a 4+ dodge, but not so easy to quickly work out the odds if you are not mathematically inclined.

There are so many possible modifiers in so many different scenarios that trying to add that all in to the interface would clutter it up and make it less usable. The app is not intended to teach rookies to work out what they need to roll for a particular action, but rather it's intended to help quickly calculate the odds of succeeding a particular action or sequence.

Block is not one of the skills you can pick, for the same reason that Wrestle isn't. When making a block action it makes no difference what skills the player has, because you choose which block dice you need to succeed the block. So let's say you need to make a block that requires a push, push-pow, or pow for the sequence to be able to succeed, then you set those 3 switches to 'On' and select how many block dice are rolled to find out the chance of succeeding. Having Block or Wrestle on the player is not necessary for the app to work the odds out, as you tell it explicitly which of the dice faces counts as successful.

[danton]

If I pull to the right on "Add Player", I get an option to delete the button.

That's good to know! The button is in a table row and sliding to the right on all of the table rows brings up the option of deleting the row. It seems that I forgot you could also delete the button row and never tested that. I imagine that if you delete it and then go to another screen and come back that it is still there no? It's possible it could cause a crash actually if you hit the delete button then. I will fix that in the next update, so thanks for letting me know.

In Pass action, I have a option for "Cat...", though it's not clear what that is?

Are you viewing it on the Retina display iPhone? That text is supposed to say "Catch", but on the retina display iPhone it doesn't doesn't have enough space to display properly. I noticed that only after releasing the app, so didn't get a chance to correct it. I will fix it.

I really appreciate the feedback, so thanks for taking the time.

[danton]

@Shteve0 I put out a small update that addresses the bugs you found ("Catch" text garbled and being able to delete the 'Add Player' row in the table).

Thanks for spotting those. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone else has any comments, or feedback related to the App too.

[Shteve0]

Cool, no worries. I'll check it out this weekend.

Ta

S

[Darkson]

I don't have an iPad (or anything else from Apple ), but I passed to a mate who does. Said that he had a problem with Block calculation, butt he didn't have his pad with him, so he couldn't show me. He's going to try and email the problem.

[danton]

Ok, let me know the specific Action sequence and the problem itself when you can, so that I can try and replicate the error at my end. Cheers.

[Shteve0]

Can't see an issue with blocking, other than the system of adding an action (at the start of the table as opposed to the end) being mildly counter intuitive.

Would like an option to edit a player's skills, either in the main menu or within an action - adding sure hands, for example.

Clicking the arrow next to a player on the home screen does nothing.

Clicking either side of the 'add player' button highlights the line, but does nothing else.

Frenzy would be interesting as an implement.

[danton]

Would like an option to edit a player's skills, either in the main menu or within an action - adding sure hands, for example.

Yeah, I will probably add an option for editing a player's skills at some point. I didn't really see it as a priority, as you can easily delete and add new players with the needed skills for a particular sequence. The idea was to let you create enough saved players to cover most scenarios, so once that's done, being able to edit them does not add a lot in terms of functionality.

Clicking the arrow next to a player on the home screen does nothing.

Clicking either side of the 'add player' button highlights the line, but does nothing else.

That's normal behaviour really. The arrow is a "disclosure triangle", which basically means that clicking the row should take you somewhere. The button row, should now only do something if you click the button.

Frenzy would be interesting as an implement.

I don't really see the value in adding Frenzy, as it's the same as adding two consecutive blocks with the same player under the current system isn't it?

[Sanitariumpr]

Messed about with it, works fine on my iPad.
-Nod

p.s. +1 request for landscape!

Have to check it out. Would help both in my Blog and future games.