Hello everyone!
Last year in May, during the pandemic lockdown, I quietly re-launched
http://www.prstats.tk with a new option to track individual matches. I didn't tell anyone about the re-launch, as I'm building this for myself primarily (to practice SQL queries and to satisfy my need of looking at the stats), but I know some of you guys re-discovered the site on your own (special thanks to Nate for letting me know it wasn't picking up data between 2021-03-01 and 2021-03-03).
Yesterday I finally finished and rolled-out the long due redesign of the site. Along with the new, responsive design, there are a couple of new features added:
- Pagination! You can now access whole match history of each player/server
- Graphs! You can see daily/weekly player/server activity on their pages as well as global trends on the "Home" and "Players" pages
- New, unified player/clan/server search
- New avatars! A random user avatar is generated for each player based on their name
This is not much, but most of my efforts went into the new visual appearance (design) anyway, so I think that's cool. I think the data is more readable now than before.
A couple of features I'm thinking about implementing:
- New "Maps" page where all the maps will be listed with their own play history and stats
- "Claim profile" feature where you could claim your player profile and... I don't know, change your avatar?
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
- Ability to follow people and get notified when they play (I think the previous point must be implemented before doing this)
I know the site is not perfect and the data it collects might not be most accurate, but given how PRSpy works and that I'm getting ALL the data from PRSpy, I think it works decently.
I looked into parsing demo files, and it's A LOT of work (including a new website which would display parsed data), which wouldn't be such a problem (though it could take months, or even years to develop something useful) if there was a unified way to obtain these demo files from all servers easily and automatically.
I won't get into all the "toxicity the site brings out" discussion too much (though I'll gladly hear any constructive criticism). I mean, look at
my stats... I am terrible at this game + I don't really have time to play game and improve my stats (only when I send my kid to his grandparents :cry
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
, but I can't help it, I just love looking at these stats. When I think about it... this is more a tracker site than a statistics site, and I'm only showing K/D as there's pretty much nothing else to show (other than player score and playtime).
Cheers!