MileSplit Update Coming Soon?

[CFeisel]

The OHSAA allows meets to begin this Saturday and MileSplit still has the 2024 Divisions, Regions, and Districts. I coach in a district with some significant changes and I would like to be able to keep tabs on how feasible it is for my athletes to advance in the postseason. Yet I can't even load it up and have it tell me the best returners without manually entering every team into a virtual meet.

Anyone know if it usually gets updated by now? And if not, when it gets updated?

Thanks in advance.

 

[mathking]

Last year it was mid April.

On a tangential note, does anyone know if it is possible to import a complete lineup into Milesplit? Our coaching staff is in the middle of getting entries done for our first meet, and it is taking forever because it is on Milesplit. But we can set up a meet on Athletic.net and get it done in a fraction of the time if there is a way to import entries.

 

[psycho_dad]

What is so time consuming about Milesplit? I understand it's different, but it does not "take forever." Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you? I will admit that I don't even try to get done in a hurry and sort of play around with it in the early part of the season. Our first meet has 4 entries in each event and 2 relays. I put a lot more thought into that then when it's just one relay and 2 in individual events.

 

[mathking]

Part of my frustration is one time per season only, the roster import in Milesplit, which is clunky. Once kids are imported you need to deactivate athletes from previous years, and make sure that all the imported athletes are activated for outdoor. But the view mode (ALL/OUTDOOR/INDOOR/XC) resets with each athlete activated/deactivated, making the process take significantly longer than it should. This could be easily fixed by having the coach log in to the sport.

But the big frustration is the lack of a convenient way to dynamically view the list of all the athletes and what events they are in, and to be able to click on the athlete to change their events, in addition to being able to enter by selecting events. It would also be very nice to have the option to start typing the athlete's name, when selecting by event, and dynamically pull up matches. We have 253 athletes to enter for the the meet later this week. Trying to make sure that everyone has an event and no one is doing too much could be much easier with better programming. I set up two meets for us last night, and it took over an hour on Milesplit and less than twenty minutes on Athletic.net.

 

[psycho_dad]

Part of my frustration is one time per season only, the roster import in Milesplit, which is clunky. Once kids are imported you need to deactivate athletes from previous years, and make sure that all the imported athletes are activated for outdoor. But the view mode (ALL/OUTDOOR/INDOOR/XC) resets with each athlete activated/deactivated, making the process take significantly longer than it should. This could be easily fixed by having the coach log in to the sport.

But the big frustration is the lack of a convenient way to dynamically view the list of all the athletes and what events they are in, and to be able to click on the athlete to change their events, in addition to being able to enter by selecting events. It would also be very nice to have the option to start typing the athlete's name, when selecting by event, and dynamically pull up matches. We have 253 athletes to enter for the the meet later this week. Trying to make sure that everyone has an event and no one is doing too much could be much easier with better programming. I set up two meets for us last night, and it took over an hour on Milesplit and less than twenty minutes on Athletic.net.

What fun is it if it only takes 20 minutes? Savor it.

I've given up on anything ever being how I think it should be, so it doesn't bother me so much. The resetting after each athlete is a pain, I agree. Stupid. I also would prefer entries go in order of event.

We typically plan everything out on a spreadsheet ahead of time, so when we enter, it's faster. We have half your kids though. We also tend to play around with the entries for a few days on Milesplit so time is not a big concern. Sort of rough outline and then narrowed down to exact entries at the deadline. It also assures us that we are at least entered. We have been wrong on deadlines.

I do not expect Milesplit to care about my team management, so it's just more of a click click click thing for me, Scrap pieces of paper, envelopes and our spreadsheet are my tools.

 

[mathking]

What fun is it if it only takes 20 minutes? Savor it.

I've given up on anything ever being how I think it should be, so it doesn't bother me so much. The resetting after each athlete is a pain, I agree. Stupid. I also would prefer entries go in order of event.

We typically plan everything out on a spreadsheet ahead of time, so when we enter, it's faster. We have half your kids though. We also tend to play around with the entries for a few days on Milesplit so time is not a big concern. Sort of rough outline and then narrowed down to exact entries at the deadline. It also assures us that we are at least entered. We have been wrong on deadlines.

I do not expect Milesplit to care about my team management, so it's just more of a click click click thing for me, Scrap pieces of paper, envelopes and our spreadsheet are my tools.

Yeah, we start on a spreadsheet too. I was not playing around at all with entries last night. That part was done. We have to use a spreadsheet so that we can make sure we have everyone in events. This was just taking the spreadsheet and putting the kids in the meet entries for Milesplit. I do actually expect the platform being paid to provide post season meet entries for the OHSAA to put some effort into their platform. It is probably also frustrating to me because some of the coding decisions are ones I would mark down my students for making. Honestly, I would be happy if they just followed a web coding standard that was not older than most of the athletes on the team. (I also don't like that modern browser security features have to be turned off when I use Milesplit.) I could at least automate the steps that drive me nuts. Really I just want it not to take so long when I have other things to do.

For our invitational meets we spend a lot of time with spreadsheets trying to figure out lineups that will help our team performance either in that meet, or to help us down the road at the conference meet. Honestly that is something I really enjoy about track and field coaching. We also will put in a first guess lineup for important meets well ahead of time so that something is there, and then we revise it. But mostly we revise with a spreadsheet and then transfer those.

 

[psycho_dad]

I just want it not to take so long when I have other things to do.

Yeah, you have to loosen up your schedule so you don't have other things to do. There is your problem.

I work in a world where none of the software I use works well. We use quoting software adapted from flooring sales to sell things other than flooring and was originally DOS based and still appears to be better suited on that platform. We try and make money with it and not just enter track meets.

 

[mathking]

"Loosen up you schedule?" Oh, yeah, that's a thing.

This is the wrong time of year for that for me. My robotics team was competing in Cincinnati Thu-Sat, and I have to grade student internal assessments for my IB class. Funny coincidence, one of my students' project was to write meet entry and scoring software for her fencing coach.