2010 Greenbrier Cup Entries and Information Now Available
I've been hard at work getting things squared away for the Greenbrier Cup this year. I am happy to release the entry forms and information sheet for the 2010 tournament. Check out the Greenbrier Cup page for the documents. Remember, this tournament is first come first serve. So the faster you book rooms and turn in the entry forms, the more likely you are to have a spot in the tournament!
2009-2010 Mid-Atlantic Tournament Series Rankings
In Fall 2009 I created a ranking spreadsheet for the purpose tracking the Tennis on Campus Mid-Atlantic Tournament Series. I created it for my team, but eventually other people found it useful. It was emailed out to different people, but I failed to publicly release it. The purpose of this post is to do just that, make a public release.
Now Hosting 2010 Greenbrier Cup at PeteDeremer.com
As a graduating senior, I can no longer be the president for WVU Club Tennis. Â This week, Jamie Hanna took over as the new president. Â This means that I also am no longer the webmaster, and as such can't maintain the old Greenbrier Cup page on the club's website. Â I am still the director for the event however and need access to maintain information and keep it updated. Â My solution for this was to move the tournament information here. Â Here I can maintain it as I wish, giving teams the most up-to-date information there is.
So, be sure to check out the new page. Â And check back soon, as I'll be posting more information on it such as pictures, forms, and fliers.
Tennis on Campus Counter 2.1
Following the 2.0 rewrite of the data gathering tools, Â I am ready to release TOC Counter 2.1. Â This release does one major feature and several minor ones. Â Check out the list below for more information.
- Schools by state. Â The scrapper now pulls in what state each school is in, allowing us to put together some comparisons between all of the states. Â Data will start coming in 12/01/2009 with state information, and at that time you will see the new state information and statistics.
- Chart size adjustments. Â The charts have been widened and shortened allowing us to view them a little better
. - Individual Charts. Â Profiles now contain a chart of team number history if the team has any history of their roster number changing.
- Standardized Tables. Â All tables now look the same, and have the same sorting feature.
- Several bug fixes.
Tennis on Campus Counter Updates
I have created version 2.0 of the Tennis on Campus Counter.  For this release I have completely rewritten the scraping tool in Python, effectively disbanding the old BASH scraper.  Also, There a lot of bug fixes on the teams list, updated teams, and new teams pages.  Finally a few tweaks were included to make the data easier to read on the charts.
On the USTA Mid-Atlantic Website
USTA Mid-Atlantic wrote an article about the Mid-Atlantic Tennis on Campus Sectionals, because WVU Club Tennis won the Team Sportsmanship Award and I won the Individual Sportsmanship Award.
Check out the article about the tournament here.
http://www.midatlantic.usta.com/news/fullstory.sps?inewsid=6627688&iNewsCat=%3CCAT%3E
In the DA Newspaper
I was in the newspaper a while back! They interviewed me for an article covering WVU Club Tennis.
Read the full article here: http://www.da.wvu.edu/print_edition/pdf/2009-02-05Page2.pdf
Tennis on Campus Data Project
Over the holidays I was looking for a cool little project to work on. What I realized is that it would be really cool to see how many people and teams are currently tallied up in the Tennis on Campus program.  So I started to think about doing it.
Limitations: Now, this little experiment is limited majory because the Tennis on Campus site is still new and does not list all of the teams. In fact it only lists about 1/5 of the total data right now. However these are the only numbers we have available to us right now
Results: What I ended up doing was writing a screen scapping program that does the following:
- Finds the URLs of all the teams listed on the Tennis on Campus website
- Tallies the total number of teams
- Finds the number of players from each team (listed on the profile page we discovered earlier)
- Adds all of the players up for a total number
I originally was going to stop here because I had the data: 131 teams, and 5,153 people. However, I realized that this little project could go one step further. I could actually create a data page where people could see just how many teams there where (listed on the website), per month. I went about a made everything more dynamic and made the script output the data into files that would be easier for parsing.
Next thing I tought myself was how to parse data in PHP. I hadn't done it before, but it proved to be a very easy process. The end result is that I was able to take all the data and put them into arrays. These arrays can be used in any number of ways now.
What I did with the data was to use it and dynamically create Google Charts using it. So now we can not only see how many people and teams are in the program, but we can see (visually with charts) just how much of an increase the numbers have each month.
To run it each month, the scrapping tool I had built previously is just setup on a cron job to run at the first of every month. The new data is added to the bottom of the data file and is dynamically added into the tables!
Check it out: http://www.petederemer.com/toc
License: GPLv3
Source: Download
WVU Club Tennis Spring 2009 Practices
WVU Club Tennis will following the following practice schedule starting Jan 17th, 2009:
Saturday: 3 pm - 5 pm
Sunday:   8pm - 10 pm
Practice will be held at the Shell building and will not take place when there is a Men's Basketball game that night. Saddly we won't be able to get the Shell building on those days.
We will be using temporary/portable nets that we will have to put up and take down every time we play however, we can play. And at a much lower cost. Grants and such will be used to pay for matches against another team.
Spread The Word!!!
DC – MD – WV Tennis On Campus Website
When WVU Club Tennis joined the DC/MD Tennis on Campus League, i checked out their website. To my surprise the website hadn't been updated since 2006! Thats a really out of date website!
I immediately started to think of options that would be good for everyone. I was trying to find something that was:
1) Neutral. One school wouldn't be in control
2) Multiple Access Points. I wanted several people to have the control needed to change things on the website.
3) Easy to edit. I wanted people to be able to edit it quickly and easily.
I found all of these things in Google Sites. Since then I have rebuilt the website for the district, and launched today!
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