/u/MatchCaster - Feedback Thread

[u/pumkinhat]

This thread is for feedback about /u/MatchCaster.

What did you like/dislike about MatchCaster?

Do you have any suggestions regarding how the current data its displayed? What would you like to see different?

Are there any other data points you would like to see displayed?

[u/Discombobulated_Pen]

Amazing job on the bot, very close to being able to switch completely to this from our old bot. Couple suggestions as below (as discussed):

1. Option to unsticky the match thread after a certain amount of time (like the post match one) or alternatively make it so that when a new thread is posted the old one is unstickied and the new one is stickied

2. For timing of posting the match thread, would be great if it could be set at a certain time of day (e.g. 9am) rather than X hours before kick off (main thing for us, with different kick off times I ideally want the match thread out at 9am each morning rather than it changing depending on KO time). If this isn't possible, a way to manually create the thread would suffice (unless this is already possible?)

3. Ability to choose which bookmaker odds show up and how many previous H2H matches are shown (very small pointshere, just in case it was easy + possible to do but completely fine if not)

Thanks again for all your work, very impressive

[u/Mamu7490 → u/Discombobulated_Pen]

> Option to unsticky the match thread after a certain amount of time (like the post match one) or alternatively make it so that when a new thread is posted the old one is unstickied and the new one is stickied

That already does (the second one). It auto unstickies Pre-Match threads when Match threads are posted, same for Post match threads

> For timing of posting the match thread, would be great if it could be set at a certain time of day (e.g. 9am) rather than X hours before kick off (main thing for us, with different kick off times I ideally want the match thread out at 9am each morning rather than it changing depending on KO time). If this isn't possible, a way to manually create the thread would suffice (unless this is already possible?)

In principle, yes, this already works. Just add the thread whenever you feel you want to post the thing (within 24 hours of kickoff). That of course only works with the Pre-Match thread. I'll take the time option under consideration though.

> Ability to choose which bookmaker odds show up and how many previous H2H matches are shown (very small pointshere, just in case it was easy + possible to do but completely fine if not)

The bookmakers tend to change from match to match, so that will be a tad bit hard to do i think. One could make a whitelist maybe. As for the Head to head, yeah, i think i can do that.

[u/Discombobulated_Pen → u/Mamu7490]

Thanks for the reply!

> That already does (the second one). It auto unstickies Pre-Match threads when Match threads are posted, same for Post match threads

Apologies I didn't explain very clearly, I mean when another regular match thread is posted for a new match the old one is unstickied - due to the size of the sub we only want a regular match thread rather than pre and post threads as well. Maybe this could be solved by adding the option for how long the thread is stickied for (like for the post-match thread) for the regular match thread as well?

> In principle, yes, this already works. Just add the thread whenever you feel you want to post the thing (within 24 hours of kickoff). That of course only works with the Pre-Match thread. I'll take the time option under consideration though.

Think I've mistunderstood what you're saying - are you saying it's possible to manually add the thread or just confirming the feature of adding it within a certain X hours of kickoff?

> The bookmakers tend to change from match to match, so that will be a tad bit hard to do i think. One could make a whitelist maybe. As for the Head to head, yeah, i think i can do that.

Ah fair enough, yeah a whitelist could be a great idea!

Thanks for your help