Score updates on one's phone?

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[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 Am I crazy to think the ECAC may actually have something this year?[/q]

The WCHA 8-ball says: "Signs point to Yes."

[jy3]

isnt  there a 1800 number for scores?
1-800-555-tell
sports
college hockey
cornell
not always well updated...

[jtwcornell91]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:

 [Q2]GTSnowracer Wrote:

 There is a wap.elynah.com....does anybody know if it would be possible to stick scores up there somehow?  Can't find college hockey scores anywhere on cell phone internet.[/Q]
Yeah you can, although it may be provider specific (Cinguar).

The key is internet and net text messaging. The text messaging options that are available, as Phil said, only are after the game and may take who knows how long to show.

Write a cron job to query USCHO or CHN's score page every 10 minutes, and when it has a new result, access the web or email interface to your cell phone's text messages.[/q]

[judy]

[Q]pfibiger Wrote:

 cstv offers it, but it's just thescore at the end of the game. sometimes you get it 15 minutes later, sometimes you get it the next day.[/q]

And sometimes, the game is for example...Cornell 5, Princeton 3. The score comes to you as Cornell 3, Princeton 5. There's a bit of a difference in those scores...like a win.

I signed up for something a couple of years ago...with whatever was the predecessor to last year's edition of of "give us money and we give you access to games, scores, highlights, extras" etc. with, I want to say OCN.  collegehockey something or other, yup that's helpful. I think it got swallowed into the whole cstv thing (like ya know how your credit cards or mortgage might get sold to another company)...
So, this was from that first season when Cornell, Brown and Princeton were going into the "pay for coverage" business model as I get scores for these three schools.
I don't really trust them which is why I still end up asking someone to give me updates.

Edit: ya, it did get taken over by cstv.

[HeafDog]

[Q]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

Write a cron job to query USCHO or CHN's score page every 10 minutes, and when it has a new result, access the web or email interface to your cell phone's text messages.[/Q]
[/Q]

I guess that's the best we'll be able to do for now.  If I get around to doing it and test it out and it's working well, I'll let people know.

[pfibiger]

[Q]HeafDog Wrote:

 [Q2]jtwcornell91 Wrote:

Write a cron job to query USCHO or CHN's score page every 10 minutes, and when it has a new result, access the web or email interface to your cell phone's text messages.[/Q]
[/Q]
I guess that's the best we'll be able to do for now.  If I get around to doing it and test it out and it's working well, I'll let people know.[/q]

I was thinking that it'd be almost as easy to write a web app that you could tie to elynah logins w/ age, and let people subscribe to sms updates and then allow people who are sitting around listening to / watching the game to send score updates to the group from the app. So it wouldn't just be an end game score, as long as the total # of smses was sane, you could have updates every time the score changed. The only relatively complex part of the problem is making sure that updates happen, while not allowing duplicate data (two people issuing the same update).

Ok, maybe it would be more work..but it'd also be way cooler

[GTSnowracer]

[Q]DeltaOne81 Wrote:
Anyway, there's this "Scoreboard" option on my cell phone (not obviously affiliated with ESPN or anything) that has about every score ever. From the major leagues to Grapefruit League baseball to Arena Football and CFL to college hockey. Some scores will just say "start time: 7 PM" all game, but most are updated pretty well.

The 'View URL' function for the main Scoreboard page gives me:


If it works, bookmark it [/q]

Awesome, it worked!  Thanks a lot (btw, i have Verizon, i just added DeltaOne81's link to my favorites in my phone)

[ninian '72]

If at all.  Didn't receive any scores at all last weekend.  Judy's right about taking scores with a grain of salt.  Last spring the Lynah East score they sent out was Cornell 1 Sucks 0.

[HeafDog]

[Q]pfibiger Wrote:

...allow people who are sitting around listening to / watching the game to send score updates to the group from the app. So it wouldn't just be an end game score...[/Q]

And this would be necessary because USCHO or CHN's page doesn't update during the game all the time, right?  Or are you suggesting this so as to just get score updates more quickly than those sites?

[Liz '05]

[Q]HeafDog Wrote:

 [Q2]pfibiger Wrote:

...allow people who are sitting around listening to / watching the game to send score updates to the group from the app. So it wouldn't just be an end game score...[/Q]
And this would be necessary because USCHO or CHN's page doesn't update during the game all the time, right?  Or are you suggesting this so as to just get score updates more quickly than those sites?[/q]

Speaking from zero experience with this matter:
Possibly to allow you to get more info than those pages.  Presumably eLynah users could send out the score along with the goal info.  For example:
"Cornell 1, Union 0
4:48 1st, Moulson (Scott, Bitz) PPG"
or whatever the correct format for that is.

[judy]

[Q]Liz '05 Wrote:

Possibly to allow you to get more info than those pages.  Presumably eLynah users could send out the score along with the goal info.  For example:
"Cornell 1, Union 0
4:48 1st, Moulson (Scott, Bitz) PPG"
or whatever the correct format for that is.[/q]

Mailing list from the game's designated updater.
US cell phone numbers can be emailed...for example, Verizon is @vtext.com
This comes to you as a text message.

I've got the domains for most of the other carriers somewhere in my email archive as I've done this a few times for people. This does not mean I'm volunteering to do this for all future games.

[HeafDog]

[Q]judy Wrote:

 [Q2]Liz '05 Wrote:

Possibly to allow you to get more info than those pages.  Presumably eLynah users could send out the score along with the goal info.  For example:
"Cornell 1, Union 0
4:48 1st, Moulson (Scott, Bitz) PPG"
or whatever the correct format for that is.[/Q]
Mailing list from the game's designated updater.
US cell phone numbers can be emailed...for example, Verizon is @vtext.com
This comes to you as a text message.

I've got the domains for most of the other carriers somewhere in my email archive as I've done this a few times for people. This does not mean I'm volunteering to do this for all future games.

[/Q]

Judy, when you get the chance, please post that information about email address equivalents for US cell phones.

Also, yes, I wouldn't hold you to volunteering to post the information for every game.  The point is to come up with something that is completely automated, from subscription to unsubscription to seeing the goods on your cell.  With this in mind, there's a good chance that an automated solution would not be able to have details such as those Liz described.  But the more human intervention any solution requires, the more of a pain it is to keep going once it's set up, not to mention the fact that it potentially opens up the risk of sabotage (with bogus postings) or duplicate text messages with the same info.

[judy]

The major carriers:
AllTel
 <10digitphonenumber>@message.alltel.com

Ameritech/SBC Paging
 1way = <10digitphonenumber>@paging.acswireless.com
2way = <10digitphonenumber>@airmessage.net

AT&T Wireless  Blackberry or SMS =
username@mobile.att.net  or
<10digitphonenumber>@mobile.att.net
The address(es) are case sensitive and must be in lower case letters.

Cingular Wireless  Blackberry or SMS =
<10digitphonenumber>@mobile.mycingular.net

Nextel  Phone = <10digitphonenumber>@messaging.nextel.com

Qwest  <10digitphonenumber>@qwestmp.com

Sprint PCS  Phone = <10digitphonenumber>@messaging.sprintpcs.com

TMobile  <10digitphonenumber>@tmomail.net

Verizon Wireless Cellular  <10digitphonenumber>@vtext.com

Note that I had found these almost a year ago. I don't really know the liklihood of stuff like this changing. I know at least the Verizon one works. I have no idea how this works with number portability. I was using this at my old job to send txt messages to myself when stuff stopped running or otherwise broke

So all we need now is a database of people's phone numbers and carriers and possibly some sort of job.

[billhoward]

Last year when I was traveling, someone at eLynah or even realLynah would send me scores updates to my phone. It is more efficient than worrying about CSTV or ESPN or someone sending out scores. The occasional typos and multiple exclamation points made it all the more authentic.

Usually you can negotiate with the friend to send you scores after each period, or scores as they happen, or scores after each period and then anything in the final period that's exciting, say if the score is close, or if it's any goal scored against Harvard.

[RichH]

[Q]judy Wrote:

So all we need now is a database of people's phone numbers and carriers and possibly some sort of job. [/q]

Or some method of "signing up" to recieve score updates for a particular game, and a designated person to send them out to the distribution list on that night.  This person could be a rotating list of volunteers from game to game.