Title. Is it user error?
Game stats should be working in a few weeks.
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Okay. Thanks for the update!
Will there be a page that tracks all the players that have played at that affiliate?
Will we be able to eventually do everything else we used to with the old system?
Pretty much any time any organization or company moves to a new computer system they do not retain everything that was in the old system. The changes are generally made for a combination of two reasons: newly gained functions make up for any lost ones; the new system is more generic and maintainable than the old system (US Chess is moving from a highly customized system maintained by a person that would like to retire/stop maintaining it and to a more generic system using newer ideas/equipment where it is easier to find people that can maintain it..
Will it have everything we had 2 months ago? Probably not, because there are some features that our web logs say very few people ever looked at. (And some of those logs were used to create the list of initial rollout features.)
For example, weāve slimmed down the set of supplement files we generate, because some of them hadnāt been looked at in months.
Some kind of affiliate frequent player feature is likely to be added at some point, but I donāt see it being as high a priority as something like the TD history page.
The other thing to keep in mind is that at some point, additional features stop being part of the initial rollout and become add-ons that we get billed for, and that point is probably coming soon.
If we had a fully in-house programming team, there would be payroll checks to write every month.
While the TD history is more critical, this is functionality that is much easier to build from the database out than from the API in; I have built it on my side but you need to pull all the affiliate events first for your past N years, which is a bit annoying.
I would agree it is easier for US Chess to provide it than for affiliates to do it themselves or for 3rd party data sources (of which there are several) to do it.
The problem with any 3rd party data source is their data will ALWAYS be out of date compared to US Chess data. When we do a large rerate, for example, it can update over a million rows in the ratings database. Thereās no way a 3rd party data source is going to catch up with that many changes quickly.
The best way to get [your favorite feature] implemented is to communicate that with US Chess leadership, including your stateās delegates. And be sure to explain the use case, why does having that help you, and how does that in turn help US Chess?
US Chess is monitoring traffic in the Forums, on social media and in emails.
BUT, if you email the office every few days asking for an update on the status of some future change, youāre probably not raising its priority.
We hope to have a way to post links to a FAQ and/or status updates on MUIR soon, something that got left off the feature list somehow. :sigh: We could post those in the Forums or on new.uschess.org, but having that on MUIR itself makes them easier to find and use.
Has there been any further update on this? The fact that game stats are still not working, but prominently featured on each memberās profile seems a bit odd to meā¦
I believe this is scheduled to be worked on in January after we get a few more mission-critical issues resolved.
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I see that this post is 25 days old; is there a status on the status updates?
We didnāt have our weekly staff MUIR updates call the last two weeks because of the holidays, and I havenāt heard anything on that, Bryan Tillis is the one who was putting that together.
That is not true. What Mike Nolan (if that is the person we are talking about), was done with the system was completely fine. Time will tell with the new system and how easy and if inexpensive the people who will maintain and develop further.
FWIW, I retired as a full-time US Chess employee in 2016, It took over 7 years for US Chess to set up a process for updating the ratings programming, something that should probably have been done before 2020.
And, no the system wasnāt ācompletely fineā. It was in need of revision and updating even before I retired.
It is seldom desirable to have a system dependent upon one person, even in a small company, because if that person dies or otherwise becomes unavailable, youāre hosed.
Years ago I took over maintaining a system that was far less complex than the US Chess ratings system. Any changes to that set of programs took so much time it would probably have been more efficient to rewrite it, but that wasnāt something they wanted to do.
There are some game stat available now, results by year and by opponent (which can have date ranges.)
I also seen norms data.
But it seems somehow Stats only use part of database.
For example, look at āresults by yearā of https://ratings.uschess.org/player/30700332 , it only shows 2022 and 2024, as if the player has not played games in 2023 and 2025.
Iāve asked about that, and also why I donāt see any senior master norms, even for 2700 players.
But at least thereās some progress.
Could be a startup issue, Iām not sure how this is being implemented. I know the legacy system had a āgamesā database table that it consulted for stats and if itās using a similar method it may not be fully populated yet.
I asked it for an all-time opponents list for a very active player, it took about 2 minutes and it came up with over 1400 players, but the legacy system appears to have over 3200.
2 Minutes? ā hopefully it is tweakable and not making 1400 calls at display level.
I donāt know if theyāre done optimizing the stats queries, but this is a VERY active player with over 5000 events. (As a database manager for over 30 years, I think they may need additional foreign keys so that some searches donāt become 6 or 8 way joins. On the legacy system, most searches were at most 4 way joins, with many being no more than 2 way joins.)