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Sneak peek of 3 new products -- Help w/ feedback

  • 247Sports family,

    We are a couple weeks away from introducing three new really cool products to the 247Sports Player Database.

    http://247sports.com/Player/Lorenzo-Carter-22968 (you can see these products in the image below)

    #1. Ranking History
    #2. Crystal Ball (version 1 of 2)
    #3. Skills (version 1 of 2)

    Here's a quick description of each:

    #1. Ranking History: Shows the "ratings" and "rankings" history for each prospect ... shows both 247Sports and #247Composite .. graphical illustration comparing 247Sports with the industry.

    #2. The Crystal Ball: Version 1.0 of the Crystal Ball allows any recruiting analyst in the 247Sports network (both National and team reporters) to predict where a prospect is going to commit and sign and records the prediction date. The product shows users the prediction from each analyst and also gives an overall prediction percentage for potential schools. ... Version 2.0 coming later this year will allow all 247Sports members to predict commitments and will earn reputation points, badges and free time for their predictions. ... Version 2.0 will also allow other recruiting analyst in the industry to make predictions and contribute to the analyst prediction.

    #3. Skills: The 247Sports national team has assigned 5 different skills for each position. The Skills that each player is rated on are specific for his respective position. Admins have the ability to add more than 5 skills -- especially useful when rating athletes and jumbo athletes. ... Version 2.0 coming later this year will allow 247Sports national analyst to craft a written evaluation as part of this product.

    Disclaimer ... when you view the images below, please note that the specs for the 3 new products are "very rough" right now. Most of the efforts with the product team is on functionality at this stage. They will begin cleaning up the look and feel and usability factors mid week, once the products are finalized.

    So, here's were we need your help and feedback. We are at a point where we are developing many different products/modules for the Player Database. This is a great thing, but we need to adjust our layout and prioritization of each area of the Player page.

    For example, as designers we need to place the features that are most used and most important near the top of the page and in areas that best satisfies our users. I would like to take some time to measure your feedback on which products you use most often.

    Please rate each product on a scale of 1 to 5 for most important to you:

    1 -- Don't use
    2 -- Marginal value, could live without it
    3 -- Solid value, occasional use
    4 -- Needed product, frequent user
    5 -- Great Product, use all the time

    -- Please rate each product below with a 1 thru 5:

    Featured: Articles/Updates from the Network
    Stats: (player stats)
    Bio:
    Player Tweets: Tweets from the player's Twitter account
    Skills & Scouting Reports (new product coming soon)
    The Crystal Ball: Commitment predictions from 247Sports & users (new product coming soon)
    Prospect Videos
    Prospect Photos
    Timeline
    School Interests Modules (list school, interest, offer, recruited by & visit date)
    Rankings and Ratings module
    Ranking History (new product coming soon)
    Industry Twitter (tweets from the entire recruiting industry)

    As always, we appreciate your feedback. We are trying to build and manage great products for you guys and your help is extremely appreciated.

    Thanks, Shannon

    This post was edited by Lucky on 3/3/2013 at 4:22 PM

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    Lucky

  • Hey Lucky Thanks for the awesome content, and for this update to the site. Here are the page rankings that you asked for in the above post.

    Featured: 4
    Stats: 5
    Bio: 3
    Player Tweets: 2 (I like having the prospects Twitter handle at my fingertips, but could you just place these in the Bio Section. If I am following a prospect on twitter I will see his tweets on my timeline)

    Skills & Scouting Reports: Love that snapshot look at a prospect: 4
    The Crystal Ball: looks Awesome 5
    Prospect Videos: 4
    Prospect Photos: 1
    Timeline:4
    School Interests Modules: 5
    Rankings and Ratings module: 3
    Ranking History: 4
    Industry Twitter: 2

    Thanks again Shannon!

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by Alexdykes22 on 3/3/2013 at 1:26 PM

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    Alexdykes22 ●

  • Featured: Articles/Updates from the Network
    Stats: 4...
    Bio: 3....
    Player Tweets: 1.... If its good, it's on the board...
    Skills & Scouting Reports (new product coming soon) : < can't rate something I haven't used....
    The Crystal Ball: Commitment predictions from 247Sports & users (new product coming soon) : interesting....
    Prospect Videos : need more of these 3
    Prospect Photos : meh 1
    Timeline 3
    School Interests Modules (list school, interest, offer, recruited by & visit date): 3
    Rankings and Ratings module 3
    Ranking History (new product coming soon)
    Industry Twitter (tweets from the entire recruiting industry).... This will get a 4 if done right at first then fall back to a 3

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    Go Vols

    orangeasylum ●

  • We appreciate all your feedback, folks. Keep it coming!

    preciatecha

    Kevin Ryan ●

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    tnbear66 ●


  • Featured: 4
    Stats: 5
    Bio: 3
    Player Tweets: 2
    Skills & Scouting : 5
    The Crystal Ball: 5 (this will be one of my favorite features)
    Prospect Videos: 5
    Prospect Photos: 1
    Timeline:3
    School Interests Modules: 5
    Rankings and Ratings module: 3
    Ranking History: 2
    Industry Twitter: 3

    Imallvol

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    bigorange

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    BillyVol

  • Featured: 4
    Stats: 3
    Bio: 3
    Player Tweets: 1
    Skills & Scouting Reports 4
    The Crystal Ball: 4
    Prospect Videos 5
    Prospect Photos 1
    Timeline 4
    School Interests Modules 5
    Rankings and Ratings module 1
    Ranking History 4
    Industry Twitter 2

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by RunVol2 on 3/3/2013 at 6:50 PM

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    RunVol2 ●

  • Featured: 5
    Stats: 5
    Bio: 3
    Player Tweets: 3
    Skills & Scouting Reports: Love that snapshot look at a prospect: 3
    The Crystal Ball: 5
    Prospect Videos: 4
    Prospect Photos: 1
    Timeline:4
    School Interests Modules: 5
    Rankings and Ratings module: 4
    Ranking History: 4
    Industry Twitter: 3

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    #RiseToTheTop #RoadTo7 "Give him six"

    MiddleTNVol ●

  • You guys keep pushing the envelope. That is just one reason you have left your competitors in the dust!

    Featured: Articles/Updates from the Network 5
    Stats: (player stats) 3
    Bio: 4
    Player Tweets: Tweets from the player's Twitter account 2
    Skills & Scouting Reports (new product coming soon) (looking fowrd to it)
    The Crystal Ball: Commitment predictions from 247Sports & users (new product coming soon)
    3
    Prospect Videos 5
    Prospect Photos 3
    Timeline 4
    School Interests Modules (list school, interest, offer, recruited by & visit date) 5
    Rankings and Ratings module 4
    Ranking History (new product coming soon) ?? Sounds good...
    Industry Twitter (tweets from the entire recruiting industry) 3

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    RockytopATL

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    ol dad

  • Thanks for an ever-improving product!

    Featured: Articles/Updates from the Network -3
    Stats: (player stats) -4
    Bio: -4
    Player Tweets: Tweets from the player's Twitter account -3
    Skills & Scouting Reports (new product coming soon) -5
    The Crystal Ball: Commitment predictions from 247Sports & users (new product coming soon) -4
    Prospect Videos -3
    Prospect Photos -2
    Timeline -2
    School Interests Modules (list school, interest, offer, recruited by & visit date) -3
    Rankings and Ratings module -5
    Ranking History (new product coming soon) -5
    Industry Twitter (tweets from the entire recruiting industry) -3

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    Its not a stupid question until you ask it.

    Ram_Lock ●

  • Love the idea!

    Featured: 5
    Stats: 5
    Bio: 4
    Player Tweets: 4
    Skills & Scouting Reports: Love that snapshot look at a prospect: 3
    The Crystal Ball: 5
    Prospect Videos: 4
    Prospect Photos: 2
    Timeline:4
    School Interests Modules: 5
    Rankings and Ratings module: 4
    Ranking History: 4
    Industry Twitter: 3

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    "Old School"! A strong defense wins championships!

    volviking ●

  • Lucky said...

    247Sports family,

    We are a couple weeks away from introducing three new really cool products to the 247Sports Player Database.

    http://247sports.com/Player/Lorenzo-Carter-22968 (you can see these products in the image below)

    #1. Ranking History
    #2. Crystal Ball (version 1 of 2)
    #3. Skills (version 1 of 2)

    Here's a quick description of each:

    #1. Ranking History: Shows the "ratings" and "rankings" history for each prospect ... shows both 247Sports and #247Composite .. graphical illustration comparing 247Sports with the industry.

    #2. The Crystal Ball: Version 1.0 of the Crystal Ball allows any recruiting analyst in the 247Sports network (both National and team reporters) to predict where a prospect is going to commit and sign and records the prediction date. The product shows users the prediction from each analyst and also gives an overall prediction percentage for potential schools. ... Version 2.0 coming later this year will allow all 247Sports members to predict commitments and will earn reputation points, badges and free time for their predictions. ... Version 2.0 will also allow other recruiting analyst in the industry to make predictions and contribute to the analyst prediction.

    #3. Skills: The 247Sports national team has assigned 5 different skills for each position. The Skills that each player is rated on are specific for his respective position. Admins have the ability to add more than 5 skills -- especially useful when rating athletes and jumbo athletes. ... Version 2.0 coming later this year will allow 247Sports national analyst to craft a written evaluation as part of this product.

    Disclaimer ... when you view the images below, please note that the specs for the 3 new products are "very rough" right now. Most of the efforts with the product team is on functionality at this stage. They will begin cleaning up the look and feel and usability factors mid week, once the products are finalized.

    So, here's were we need your help and feedback. We are at a point where we are developing many different products/modules for the Player Database. This is a great thing, but we need to adjust our layout and prioritization of each area of the Player page.

    For example, as designers we need to place the features that are most used and most important near the top of the page and in areas that best satisfies our users. I would like to take some time to measure your feedback on which products you use most often.

    Please rate each product on a scale of 1 to 5 for most important to you:

    1 -- Don't use
    2 -- Marginal value, could live without it
    3 -- Solid value, occasional use
    4 -- Needed product, frequent user
    5 -- Great Product, use all the time

    -- Please rate each product below with a 1 thru 5:

    Featured: Articles/Updates from the Network
    Stats: (player stats)
    Bio:
    Player Tweets: Tweets from the player's Twitter account
    Skills & Scouting Reports (new product coming soon)
    The Crystal Ball: Commitment predictions from 247Sports & users (new product coming soon)
    Prospect Videos
    Prospect Photos
    Timeline
    School Interests Modules (list school, interest, offer, recruited by & visit date)
    Rankings and Ratings module
    Ranking History (new product coming soon)
    Industry Twitter (tweets from the entire recruiting industry)

    As always, we appreciate your feedback. We are trying to build and manage great products for you guys and your help is extremely appreciated.

    Thanks, Shannon

    Featured: Articles/Updates from the Network -4
    Stats: (player stats) - 3
    Bio: - 4
    Player Tweets: Tweets from the player's Twitter account - 3
    Skills & Scouting Reports (new product coming soon) - 4
    The Crystal Ball: Commitment predictions from 247Sports & users (new product coming soon) - 3
    Prospect Videos - 3
    Prospect Photos - 4
    Timeline - 5
    School Interests Modules (list school, interest, offer, recruited by & visit date) - 5
    Rankings and Ratings module - 4
    Ranking History (new product coming soon) - 3
    Industry Twitter (tweets from the entire recruiting industry) - 2

    I like the look, good job

    streamwalker ●

  • Featured: 5
    Stats: 3
    Bio: 3
    Player Tweets: 2
    Skills & Scouting Reports: 5
    The Crystal Ball: 5
    Prospect Videos: 4
    Prospect Photos: 2
    Timeline: 4
    School Interests Modules: 5
    Rankings and Ratings module: 5
    Ranking History: 3
    Industry Twitter: 4

    Twitter: @nick11vols

    nick11vols

  • Keep em coming. This is your chance to stuff the suggestion box!

    Kevin Ryan ●

  • Do we know how much of this will be on the mobile site?

    Twitter: @nick11vols

    nick11vols

  • Featured: 3
    Stats: 4
    Bio: 4
    Player Tweets: 2
    Skills & Scouting Reports: 4
    The Crystal Ball: 5 (This is my favorite from the new bunch. Adds another fun aspect to the site, and perhaps would create less clutter on the forums due to "prediction threads")
    Prospect Videos: 3
    Prospect Photos: 3
    Timeline: 4
    School Interests Modules: 3
    Rankings and Ratings module: 5
    Ranking History: 3
    Industry Twitter: 4

    Appreciate your work, guys.

    Johngineer ●

  • Articles/Updates 5
    Stats: 4
    Bio: 3
    Player Tweets: 1
    Skills 4
    The Crystal Ball: 3
    Prospect Videos 4
    Prospect Photos 3
    Timeline 4
    School Interests Modules 5
    Rankings and Ratings module 5
    Ranking History 4
    Industry Twitter 1

    Great stuff, guys. I'm looking forward to the changes. Anything to help feed the addiction to this site!

    This post was edited by moony337 on 3/4/2013 at 1:25 PM

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    moony337

  • Featured - 5
    Stats - 4
    Bio - 4
    Tweets - 3
    Skills and Scouting - 4
    Crystal Ball - 2 (this is the one im really not sure on..after the Vonn Bell "incident"..im not sold on anyone's predictions anymore..)
    Prospect Photos- 2
    Timeline- 2
    School interests module-3
    Ranking and Ratings module-4
    Rankings History-3
    Industry twitter-3

    frostyvol

  • Featured: Articles/Updates from the Network - 5
    Stats: (player stats) - 4
    Bio: - 2
    Player Tweets: Tweets from the player's Twitter account - 3
    Skills & Scouting Reports (new product coming soon) - 5
    The Crystal Ball: Commitment predictions from 247Sports & users (new product coming soon) - 5
    Prospect Videos - 5
    Prospect Photos - 2
    Timeline - 2
    School Interests Modules (list school, interest, offer, recruited by & visit date) - 4
    Rankings and Ratings module - 5
    Ranking History (new product coming soon) - 5
    Industry Twitter (tweets from the entire recruiting industry) - 5

    ron4volserrrday

  • feature: 3
    crystal ball: 5
    ranking history: 4
    interests: 3
    tweets: 2
    bio: 4
    prospect videos and photos: 3
    industry twitter: 4
    rankings ratings: 3
    scouting report: 4
    timeline: 3
    stats: 4

    Alias15862070

  • feature: 4
    crystal ball: 5
    ranking history: 4
    interests: 3
    tweets: 1
    bio: 4
    prospect videos and photos: 3
    industry twitter: 2
    rankings ratings: 4
    scouting report: 4
    timeline: 2
    stats: 4

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    GO VOLS!!

    BuckShot JP

  • Thanks again, everyone. Keep em coming!

    Kevin Ryan ●

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