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09-08-2009 7:50 PM
ericwikman
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I thought the traditional method of listing a point spread was to display it from the perspective of the home team? So -3 means home team favored by 3.
09-08-2009 8:18 PM In reply to
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I've seen it done every way, home, visitor or often both (visitor +3, home -3). Math geek that I am, I went with the left-to-right reading (so it displays something like Titans 17 +3 @ Pittsburgh 21).

You could change it if you want. The biggest thing you'd have to remember to do is update the SetGameResults function (in includes/common.asp) and SetPlayoffsGamesResults function (in includes/playoffs.asp) to add the point spread to the home team's score rather than the visitor's score so the "against the spread" winner is correct.
09-09-2009 8:02 PM In reply to
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I did end up changing it, but I went ahead and kept it the same in the column you have and then added a column on the far right that shows the value * (-1). I also ended up adding it to the survivor pool per a request from on of the pool members. I didn't want to mess with entering it in different then you are expecting in case I missed some logic somewhere that made it cause another issue.

Thanks for all your hard work on the pool, I've used an older version heavily modified since 2000 I think, and this is the first year that I've dumped my fork and gone back to your version which has improved greatly. I hope to post most of the modifications I make this year to the forum to contribute back.

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