Thursday, October 24, 2019

  • Record for lines.
    • Biggest all time: 27, Steelers over Bucs, 1976.
    • Biggest recently: 26.5, Broncos over Jags, 2013.
    • Biggest since my app: 22.5, Pats over Jets, 2019.
  • Westgate.
    • Leaderboard.
      • After week 6, the #1 had 27/30 points (90%).
      • After week 7, the #1 had 28/35 points (80%).
    • They have a mobile app. Downloaded and played with it.
      • Called "Fantasy Supercontest" from BookieLab Inc.
      • Mine is better:
        • All-time stats.
        • Desktop and mobile (via browser, but responsive).
        • Data API (graphql for web client and python pkg for desktop client).
        • Customizable banner.
        • Funny feedback form (trivial).
        • Localized time.
        • In-app rules, page-specific instructions, legend.
        • Progress graph (total points vs week).
        • Free league.
      • Theirs is better:
        • Native mobile.
        • Full record, covers-pushes-noncovers (mine just has total points).
        • Ranking graph (lb position vs week).
      • Both have:
        • Old seasons, old weeks (historical data).
        • Leaderboard. Full percentage.
        • Total picks per team per week.
        • Weekly summary of teams and players.
        • Team logos.
      • Not sure:
        • Live-update frequency.
        • Administration.
        • Payment interface.
        • Email reminders / notifications.
  • Nationals are up 2-0 in the world series.
  • Listened to mostly Myles Kennedy (vocals/guitar for altar bridge) and his solo work. Tremonti is still my favorite of the 3, between Tremonti, Cornell, and Kennedy.
  • Supercontest.

    • Fixed a few small issues due to lowercasing the team names and mapping the statuses. The capilization now is completely confined to the frontend html, through a jinja filter. The backend python/postgres all used uppercase before, but the frontend js does now as well.
    • picks_open is now forwarded to js.
    • Added logos: https://gitlab.com/bmahlstedt-group/supercontest/issues/128.
    • Total size of all 32 logos is 452K in vcs, which is fine.
    • A deployment failed because the droplet ran out of disk space (it's 25GB).
      • df -h
      • docker system prune -af (16GB)
      • sudo apt clean (4.4MB)
      • sudo apt upgrade (8MB)
      • sudo reboot
    • Decided not to do full record (covers-pushes-noncovers). I only pass total points everywhere, I don't plumb which points came from a full cover vs half point from push. It would require some surgery to expose that through the whole chain, and it doesn't add much.
    • Backend did all the same pick verifications as frontend except "you picked the opponent" - added it.
  • "Ethanol cannot be concentrated by ordinary distillation to greater than 97.2% by volume (95.6% by weight), because at that concentration, the vapor has the same ratio of water to alcohol as the liquid, a phenomenon known as azeotropy."
  • Tesla jumped quite a bit after the profit report.
  • FB won't move forward with Libra until approved by regulators (sure).
  • Google possibly spied on its own employees? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/google-accused-of-creating-spy-tool-to-squelch-worker-dissent.
  • House of Spirits event.