Changes to Field

Most tournaments on GolfInvestors have their field entered initially on the Friday before the week of the tournament. After that changes to the field are documented in the discussion forum associated with the tournament. This helps users track which players have been removed from and added to the tournament before the tournament starts.

For example, the PODS Championship's discussions forum has the following entries that area associated with the changes to the field.

Changes to Field, 2008-03-06
John Mueller
Mar 6, 2008 18:00

Changes to Field, 2008-03-04
John Mueller
Mar 4, 2008 13:39

Changes to Field, 2008-03-03
John Mueller
Mar 3, 2008 16:11

In the details of each discussion posting, you will see things like the following which help know which players have been removed from or added to the field of the tournament at that time. For example, here is the details of the "Changes to Field, 2008-03-04" entry:

Author:  John Mueller
Date: Mar 4, 2008 13:39

The following changes were made to the field on
Tuesday, 2008-03-04.

Removed:

Tim Clark [TICLK]
Fredrik Jacobson [FRJAN]
Brandt Jobe [BRJOE]

Added:

Marco Dawson [ MADAN ]
Derek Lamely [ DELAY ]
Jin Park [ JIPAK ]
Ted Purdy [ TEPUY ]
Jim Renner [ JIRER ]
Kevin Streelman [ KESTN2 ]
Marc Turnesa [ MATUA ]

Where do I look to find my outstanding orders?

To find your outstanding orders on GolfInvestors, you would go to the My Account - Orders page. The My Account - Orders page shows all of your unexecuted orders. You can see the filter on the page to search for any unexecuted order you have in the GolfInvestors system.

Whereas, if you are looking for your orders that have been executed, you would use the My Account - History page.

Recieve emails about offering results from the previous week

One of the features of GolfInvestors is that you can opt to receive a weekly email that shows the results of the offerings that were done the previous week. Below is an example of the weekly offering email I received today (Monday) showing me the results of the offerings that occurred last week on the 2008 Season Market.

-----Original Message-----
From: GolfInvestors [mailto:info@golfinvestors.com]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:01 AM
To: email address
Subject: Offerings for the 2008 Season Market


This email is from GolfInvestors.  You have requested to
receive the Offering Weekly Update email
for the 2008 Season Market.

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Below is the Offering Weekly Update for the
2008 Season Market as of 2008-02-11

- Week's Offerings Now Trading on Market

Ryuji Imada (RYIMA)
Date Shares started Trading on Market: 2008-02-09
Total $ Value of Offering: $1,800,000
Offering Share Price: $180
First Day Closing Price: NA (Change from Offering Price: NA)
Current Price: $207 (Change from Offering Price: 15.0000%)

Doug Labelle II (DOLAE)
Date Shares started Trading on Market: 2008-02-11
Total $ Value of Offering: $920,000
Offering Share Price: $92
First Day Closing Price: NA (Change from Offering Price: NA)
Current Price: $102 (Change from Offering Price: 10.8696%)

Arron Oberholser (AROBR)
Date Shares started Trading on Market: 2008-02-07
Total $ Value of Offering: $1,400,000
Offering Share Price: $140
First Day Closing Price: NA (Change from Offering Price: NA)
Current Price: $137 (Change from Offering Price: -2.1429%)

Scott Sterling (SCSTG)
Date Shares started Trading on Market: 2008-02-08
Total $ Value of Offering: $350,000
Offering Share Price: $70
First Day Closing Price: NA (Change from Offering Price: NA)
Current Price: $76 (Change from Offering Price: 8.5714%)

- Week's Selling off Market Offerings

None

- Week's Pricings Offerings

Carlos Franco (CAFRO)
Date Offer to be Selling off Market: 2008-02-11
Total $ Value of Offering: $620,000
Offering Share Price: $124
# of Shares being Offered: 5000

Access to Gi's Google Analytics Results

Today I posted on the Gi's About - For Advertisers section which tells advertisers that they can get access to Gi's Google Analytics results. I decided to provide access to potential advertisers to Gi's Google Analytics results so potential advertisers can see from a 3rd party what the site traffic is for the Gi web site, be it good or bad results. Site traffic changes day by day, however, honest figures do not lie. I feel honesty is more important than trying to dress figures. [ learn more ]

Twitter

Am going to try out Twitter to see if it is worth it or not to keep updates of what I am doing on GolfInvestors. To following along, my Twitter URL is:

http://twitter.com/golfmomo

I will try to keep updates updated on Twitter so that it makes it worth it to follow along. Who knows, it might be a waste of time or it might be interesting to follow along. Will find out over the course of the year in 2008.

Elling: Mini-tours "legalized gambling"

I was reading an article today by CBS Sportsline's Steve Elling (formerly with the Orlando Sentinel) about the 2008 rookies on the US PGA Tour [ here is the article ]. While I was reading the article a small sentence caught my eye. He said: mini-tours is a form of "legalized gambling" (under Kevin Streelman's bio).

Elling's premise for saying that playing mini-tours is gambling is because the prize purse is funded almost completely by the player's entry fees.

Is an event that funds the majority of the prize purse with player entry fees gambling?

Screencast on how to export a tournament schedule

Since we have implemented the hCalendar microformat on GolfInvestors, users can now export tournament schedules easily into their own calendar application (i.e. MS Outlook, Google Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar, etc.).

To learn more about how to export a tournament schedule from GolfInvestors, watch the screencast below which shows how to use the FireFox 'Operator' add-on to export the 2008 US PGA Tour tournament schedule.

[ view screencast ]