This is awesome Rowdy. Well done mate and the ‘on this day’ whilst probably one of the easier things to put together (could be mistaken) is such a great idea. Tip my hat
Great initiative, thanks so much! The link to SFCU for MOTM is cool and the data base is thorough. Let’s hope no one uses it for the Tuesday player quizzes.
That’s 100 red cards total in SFC matches: Sydney FC players have received 51 of them, and our opponents 49.
The last one (#100) was Roy O’Donovan in that away loss to Newcastle last season. Sydney’s last player to be sent off was Matty Simon in the Avraam Papadopoulos incident, Round 8 last season.
Also just one thing that might not be completely obvious: on any of the ‘sortable’ tables like the player list, you can hold Shift when clicking the column headers to sort by multiple columns.
I’m really enjoying looking back through the friendlies. E.g. After missing out on the finals at the end of the 08/09 season we played two friendlies: one against Jets who also missed out, and one against Shanghai Shenhua, and Tony Popovic was manager! Amazing…
Not sure if this is covered under “what’s coming”, so just a suggestion:
At the moment competitive matches can only be viewed season by season. It would be super handy to have them viewable by opposition as well, so say drop down from a menu and be able to see every Big Blue in chronological order.
I know head-to-head summaries by opponent are available on Ultimate A-League (e.g. Sydney FC :: Ultimate A-League), but there’s no capability from there to drill down and see the individual match history that makes up those records.
Yep I’m working on exactly that at the moment. It’ll actually be a fully customisable search function, where you can set parameters like day of the week, venue, referee, number of goals scored, and heaps of other things — opponent is of course one. You’ll also be able to summarise your search results by some factor.
I posted some examples up on Twitter yesterday:
(The full list of matches will appear on the page, I just cut it off in most of the screenshots)
I’ve got the search itself pretty much working, it’s just the user interface that I need to finish.