The Tournaments List
Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:50 am
Some space-saver and player-friendly ideas for the tournaments list columns..
Color coding: Allow us to set the color of each tournament listing. I would make Freerolls green, Sit&Gos Blue, Private tourneys Red, ....
Start Time column: I know when I go on PokerSters or any of the other cash sites, the first thing I do is sort the tournaments by Date/TIME so I can see whats coming up next. We really should have that. I would like to see it as the FIRST column, default sorting.
ID column: If we can save some space in (or eliminate) other columns, we can have longer, more descriptive IDs. please remove the 25 character limit.
Game Column: Shorten the values to save space. ie. "NL Holdem: instead of "No Limit Holdem" saves six characters (maybe we will be able to do this in the language settings already)
PW column: Not necessary, in my opinion, it could be removed. Color coding (red?) might indicate a private tourney.
Buy In column: looks good.
Tables column: In my opinion it can be removed. Do players really care how many tables there are? They want to know, maybe, how many players per table (St/Tb) and how many players (Status) in the tourney, but how may tables?? Anyone who cares can do the math.
St/Tb column: OK maybe some might care. I prefer an short handed, 6 player table limit, myself.
Status column: Split the status (Reg'd, Playing, Resetting) from the player count (eg 12/100) and put the player count in a column called "Reg'd" or "Enrolled" (as Poker Stars does) and then the values are just the numbers. eg "0/100". (very useful if we can convince Kent to add an "Announced" status). Which brings us to my other post today...
Color coding: Allow us to set the color of each tournament listing. I would make Freerolls green, Sit&Gos Blue, Private tourneys Red, ....
Start Time column: I know when I go on PokerSters or any of the other cash sites, the first thing I do is sort the tournaments by Date/TIME so I can see whats coming up next. We really should have that. I would like to see it as the FIRST column, default sorting.
ID column: If we can save some space in (or eliminate) other columns, we can have longer, more descriptive IDs. please remove the 25 character limit.
Game Column: Shorten the values to save space. ie. "NL Holdem: instead of "No Limit Holdem" saves six characters (maybe we will be able to do this in the language settings already)
PW column: Not necessary, in my opinion, it could be removed. Color coding (red?) might indicate a private tourney.
Buy In column: looks good.
Tables column: In my opinion it can be removed. Do players really care how many tables there are? They want to know, maybe, how many players per table (St/Tb) and how many players (Status) in the tourney, but how may tables?? Anyone who cares can do the math.
St/Tb column: OK maybe some might care. I prefer an short handed, 6 player table limit, myself.
Status column: Split the status (Reg'd, Playing, Resetting) from the player count (eg 12/100) and put the player count in a column called "Reg'd" or "Enrolled" (as Poker Stars does) and then the values are just the numbers. eg "0/100". (very useful if we can convince Kent to add an "Announced" status). Which brings us to my other post today...