Rematching Players in the Middle of a Drill
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:51 pm
Hi All,
I haven't converted to Pyware yet. Still using DrillQuest (since its inception over 20 years ago). Each year I try the Pyware demo to see if I think I can easily work with it, and each year I go back to DrillQuest. I think the biggest hangup that I have, even with the Pyware 5.x version is rematching players.
I typically draft a drill and then go back and finalize everything. The cleanup process includes prettying up forms (lines are straight, curves are smooth), making sure that step sizes are reasonable for everyone, checking that intervals are equalized, etc. As part of the cleanup process, I also may rematch players on some pages.
As best as I can tell, there is no easy way in Pyware to rematch players moving from page N to page N+1. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Here's what I'd like to do:
1) Rematch select players on page N to go to different positions on Page N+1
2) Have all player identification/labeling (colors, symbols, labels, etc.) be updated throughout the entire drill so that the animated drill correctly matches the flow & coordinate of each player.
In DrillQuest, you can rematch any player to any player on a subsequent page. Then, you can run an Update Symbols function that propagates symbols & labels across all pages. Without this function, I can't see an easy way to clean up & finalize a drill (assuming I'll want to do some rematching along the way).
Any Pyware pros out there have any suggestions? How do you go back to a drafted drill & rematch players in the middle of a drill? (or am I the only on that goes back & rematches players?)
Thanks in advance!
-Bill Jindrich
I haven't converted to Pyware yet. Still using DrillQuest (since its inception over 20 years ago). Each year I try the Pyware demo to see if I think I can easily work with it, and each year I go back to DrillQuest. I think the biggest hangup that I have, even with the Pyware 5.x version is rematching players.
I typically draft a drill and then go back and finalize everything. The cleanup process includes prettying up forms (lines are straight, curves are smooth), making sure that step sizes are reasonable for everyone, checking that intervals are equalized, etc. As part of the cleanup process, I also may rematch players on some pages.
As best as I can tell, there is no easy way in Pyware to rematch players moving from page N to page N+1. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Here's what I'd like to do:
1) Rematch select players on page N to go to different positions on Page N+1
2) Have all player identification/labeling (colors, symbols, labels, etc.) be updated throughout the entire drill so that the animated drill correctly matches the flow & coordinate of each player.
In DrillQuest, you can rematch any player to any player on a subsequent page. Then, you can run an Update Symbols function that propagates symbols & labels across all pages. Without this function, I can't see an easy way to clean up & finalize a drill (assuming I'll want to do some rematching along the way).
Any Pyware pros out there have any suggestions? How do you go back to a drafted drill & rematch players in the middle of a drill? (or am I the only on that goes back & rematches players?)
Thanks in advance!
-Bill Jindrich