Running this website takes time. It also costs me money.
I try my best to provide useful player statistics and informtation to help you be successful, whether it be in the main DreamTeam game or in your private leagues.
If you would like to say thank you, please show your support by making a donation using the button below.
Any donation, large or small is very much appreciated and will go towards the maintenance and upkeep of this site.
If you don't want to make a donation, you can always click on the banner advert at the top of the page, as that will earn me a few pennies, which all count!
Website Costs
You might think this site makes me money from the donations and the advert banner at the top. It doesn't! This site costs me £60 a year to pay for the server cost. Since launching the site 2 years ago, so far I have earned £44.96 from the advert banner and have received a total of £61.13 in donations from the following people on FISO:
Zimmerman
Zarch
ISSACA
ErazedCitizen
bloggie
il gatto
jeffmcgow
That makes a total of £106.09, which is just short of what I need to cover my costs.
Ok, so I'm not far off breaking even financially, but the real cost has been my time. I've had to develop this website and get all the data ready for the start of each season. That's some task in itself... After that, I've had to enter all of the results, which on average entails ticking 30 different boxes and entering figures in 30 different text boxes, PER MATCH! There were 541 matches last season, so you don't have to be a genius to work out that it takes a lot of time to enter all of that information. I have had some help entering the stats, notably from JPK100 and Zimmerman, for which I am very grateful, but it's time I had a rest and let someone else take on the admin task.
So, what I plan to do is to allow each registered member access to the admin screens. Basically, if you want the data updated, you can do it yourself! The website will generate all of the stats as normal, but the data entry burden will be shared amongst those of you who find the site useful. If nobody updates it, the site dies out. Simples.
I will write plenty of instructions to help those willing to help out, as well as provide a tool to compare the points with those on the DT site to check for any discrepancies that need fixing either on this site or by The Sun themselves. If people want to deliberately enter the wrong information to mess up the site, then I pity them, but remember I will know who did it, I will have your email address and IP Address, and I will make everyone aware that you're an arsehole!
Posted by Jules on 01/08/2011 at 12:33