Jim Matysek, web master nonpareil and extraordinaire, deserves nothing but appreciative gratitude for the past year of extraordinary Forum, Blog, and possibly Go the Distance web mastery!
Now, having thanked him for this, I propose we use this thread to jot down our various wishes for Christmas presents of the web servicey variety that we know Big Jim can provide!
Let me get the ball rolling with the present that is atop my masters swimming technology wish list:
Time charting/graphing capability!
I would love a place where all my USMS meet performances over the years are not only listed (thanks, by the way, for supplying this via the "My Meet results" link in the My USMS area), but a way of showing the results graphically by event.
Since I live in an area where most of the meets I swim in aren't USMS sanctioned or recognized, I would furthermore like to be able to manually enter meet results in this new Time Charting/Graphing Capability area so that I can get a better sense of my performance trajectories over each season and over the years.
I would futhermore like it if Santa Jim Matysek or one of his Christmas programming elves could add an age grading feature that would automatically crank out a ranking along these lines, too--and figure out some way to adjust for body suit vs. jammer swimming times so that it won't look like tons of guys suddenly got much slower and closer to death.
Chris Stevenson's age grader, which I think he's planning to recallibrate at some point, is a good example of something to incorporate into the Time charting/graphing capability (now with automatic age-grading feature)!
www.vaswim.org/.../rcalc.cgi
Okay, so that's what I want for Christmas, Santa Jim Matysek.
I want more, as well, much more, but I don't want to seem like one of those greedy children who ask for much and deserve little.
I now grant the floor to the next swimmer who wants to sit on your lap and ask for whatever it is he or she wants. I only hope, Santa Jim M., that you grant requests in the order that they were delivered to you.
Yeah, where are the lump of coal smilies? I think I know a few worthy recipients and would like to toss them a few.
Look: a "dodge the lump of coal" smilie -> :bliss:
Yeah, where are the lump of coal smilies? I think I know a few worthy recipients and would like to toss them a few.
Look: a "dodge the lump of coal" smilie -> :bliss: