Insider Comment by Jason Byrne on December 17, 2012 at 11:27am

On seeding.....

Save Changes button does work. There is no indication but it does work. Most of the time you probably want to use the auto-pilot to seed things quickly. But I don't see a need to throw up a confirmation "Changes Saved" dialog that requires another "OK" click to confirm.

# of Lanes -- If you do random, waterfall, alpha... or basically any type of lane assignments other than strict lane-based seeding methods then you can go beyond the 10 lanes.

Insider Comment by Mike Chatfield on December 17, 2012 at 1:10pm

Is there a way for the seeding rules to stick to each event?  I seed all events differently at most meets and if I have to reseed on the fly then it could become a problem in that it keeps the last event I seeded instead of the way the event was seeded the first time.

I tried the auto pilot but not sure that will work unless there is something I need to do to set it up.

I downloaded a meet from milesplit (OATCCC state championships from last year) and I just let the autopilot do its thing but I wanted the following

distance events are 16 to a race seeded by time

sprints are 8 to a heat with finals taking 8 by time

field events are 2 flights in shot, disc, lj, tj, wt with finals

field events hj, pv 1 flight

 

Insider Comment by Jason Byrne on December 17, 2012 at 1:13pm

I'll think about some ideas, but with the auto-pilot.. you can do one genre at a time. So there is a filter with the events so u can select distance, set the rules, auto pilot those... once done move on the spints/hurdles, etc.

Will try to think about the "stick" thing... you are saying not per meet but overall across all meets?

Insider Comment by Mike Chatfield on December 17, 2012 at 1:18pm

It could be in the event setup itself like that "other" meet management software.  Every event can be different.  For example in the meet I setup I had 17 runners in the 800 but I had 16 in the 1600-3200 and if I would seed by the standard rule of 16 then it would give me 2 heats in the 800 and 1 of them would have 1 runner.  Same with sprints if setup with 8 lanes and fill heats, it leaves 1 runner by themselves.

Insider Comment by Mike Chatfield on December 17, 2012 at 1:39pm

That is what I do in the "other" software.  Each event is setup as I use the same database from year to year and just change the dates and purge athletes then import new ones.  I go to the seeding menu and just let the system seed all at once (your autopilot).  since I use the same database it keeps my settings each year and works 99.9% of the time correctly.  every once in a while I need to change a setting depending on how many athletes are entered.

I have over 200 meets on my calendar this year and to have to change seeding each time would be very time consuming.  I will have to do this anyways the first time but I would like to be able to only have to do it once for a meet so that the next year would be very simple.

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