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 Tracker Updates
Version 0.5 of Tennis on Campus Tracker (aka Tennis on Campus Counter), is close to being completed. Â You can check out the progress so far at http://www.petederemer.com/toc/. Â The themes are still being worked on, however most of everything else is completed as of now.
- Everything is now stored in MYSQL.
- Keeps unique  information changes on each team.
- Display new teams added since last month
- Display updated teams added since last month
- Team profile pages
- Team listing page
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
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
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