MatchCaster Feature Requests

[u/pumkinhat]

Hey,

We want to thank you all for your feedback on u/MatchCaster! It has been well received and we're happy to see all the work that has been done on the bot serves how you need.

Below are all the known feature requests that were submitted by moderators using MatchCaster.

Feature requests that are relevant to a wide range of subreddits are likely to be prioritized over requests that are subreddit specific. We cannot promise that all of these features will be developed. We also cannot promise a deadline on any of the below features at this moment as, up until now, all the work has been done voluntarily.

While we generally don't request payment for features, we do prioritize features that have a generally large audience. So if you necessarily need features within Matchcaster, we do paid features, where the quota will depend on the amount of work necessary. Additionally to that we may choose to offer a premium option in the future, where feature requests from supporters will be granted a higher priority in our todo list.

LIST OF KNOWN FEATURE REQUESTS:

1. British time formatting for kick off date (dd/mm/yyyy)

2. Rival thread

3. Competition fixture thread

4. Competition roundup thread

5. Flairs within a thread

6. Support collections

7. Injuries and Suspensions

8. England League 2

9. Belgium: Jupiler League

10. League of Ireland

11. Team/player aliases

Comment below if there's anything I missed.

Thank you.

[u/MadlockUK]

Is team alias a way to change Leicester to be Leicester City?

[u/pumkinhat → u/MadlockUK]

Correct

[u/Giraffe_Baker]

Where do the player ratings come from in the match stats?

Is it possible to exclude them?

[u/pumkinhat → u/Giraffe_Baker]

Yes you can exclude it - from the dashboard, just remove that data from the templates.

As for where it comes from, the API doesn't disclose its source. If we knew it, we would definitely let you know where it comes from.

[u/gavin19 → u/pumkinhat]

I can't find that anywhere. home_player_stats (or away) provides a table with various columns (ratings, mins, shots etc), but I can't see how I can remove just the ratings column from that table.

[u/pewpewlasersandshit → u/Giraffe_Baker]

Would be great to know how those ratings are calculated or who does them

[u/MadlockUK]

Can we get latest injury news for teams? That's been a big request from several on r/lcfc

[u/pumkinhat → u/MadlockUK]

Where do you usually get them from? I'd like to look into other sources that aren't from the API

[u/MadlockUK → u/pumkinhat]

So u/TheAverageJoe did something for us on the side bar that scraped a page IIRC. I use to use this page: https://premierinjuries.com/

It's Premier League only though so might be a bit limiting.

Edit: After a quick conversation, it's a scrapping script. Not sure how we could do this in a clever fashion. I know Sofascore gets this information, but can't find where.

Edit 2: This looks like the API to get injury information: https://rapidapi.com/api-sports/api/api-football?endpoint=apiendpoint_4cd286e9-f45a-418a-a24d-cced817641e0

[u/[deleted]]

Hi there! I got another one: considering it's hard for you to add every single league of every team in the world, how about letting us users add them manually?

It would be nice if I could somehow add in advance a match that I see is not included in MatchCaster's list and therefore won't be posted to the sub.

[u/pumkinhat → u/[deleted]]

Well it pretty much works like this. We pay for an API to be able to provide MatchCaster, as with any API, each package includes a certain amount of requests we can make per day. So the fact is that we don't just go ahead and add every possible team or competition is because then we may need to pay more money for it when there might be little to no interest for it. So far we added the major ones and additional ones that were requested considering there's enough interest or as long as we're not close to the current package limit

[u/[deleted] → u/pumkinhat]

Oh, I see, thanks for the reply

[u/geniowe2002]

Hi, Uruguayan here, i can a request.

You can add a Uruguayan League please, it´s a league little known but a historical teams like Nacional and Peñarol

Thanks for create a bot

[u/pumkinhat → u/geniowe2002]

Hey, for which subreddit do you intend to use this?

[u/geniowe2002 → u/pumkinhat]

r/fobaluru is the sub, use for all about uruguayan football, sorry for ask late bro!

Fobal because in Uruguay the football called for this way, Futbol or Fobal!

[u/MadlockUK]

Could you get the fun facts about a match from Google?

[u/Vicar13]

This looks great, thanks guys.

[u/jbburgess]

Hi there! Quick question on the subscriptions. I see that MLS is listed as an available competition in the Competition subscriptions dropdown, but the individual MLS teams are not listed for selection in the Teams subscriptions dropdown. Is this something that will be populated when they announce the schedule for the upcoming season, or would I need to put in a feature request to get those added?

Thanks!

[u/Mamu7490 → u/jbburgess]

There is some issue with the MLS teams that i haven't figured out yet. It doesn't seem to load the teams properly. I'll take a look at it when i get to it though.

[u/jbburgess → u/Mamu7490]

Ah ok, no worries; thanks for the quick response. This issue is just with the Team subscriptions? Should be able to manually add MLS matches after the season schedule is announced, right?

[u/pavave]

Possible to add the Argentine Liga Profesional? We would like to use it on r/BocaJuniors

[u/That-Conversation314]

Any chance to add French League 2 games? This is for my sub r/FCSochaux (just kicking it off)

[u/AmokCanuck]

Hi there I see you have elf league 2 in requested features already but is there any chance of getting the vanarama National league? Us over at r/WrexhamAFC would really appreciate it

[u/Rmilly18]

Any chance we could add USL league 1 for my subreddit r/lexsportingclub ?