I see where a lot of meets will appear more than once because they're contested over multiple days (not always contiguous). Is it possible to have multi-day meets in the calendar entered only one time? That'll help keep the results in one place too.
I was thinking of posting a similar topic this morning...
With multi-day meets, it creates a fair amount of results slop when full results are entered each day (i.e. prelims and finals from Hytek). An event that was completed on Day 1 would also be shown in Day 2, making for doubled up entries on the athletes' profiles.
For our 2-day District meet last year, I opted to remove our results from Day 2 where applicable. That way, results would only show up on the day the events were actually contested. The downside to that is gaps for us in the composite Day 2 results. You'd have to print off both days to find all of our results. I consider athletic.net's main strength to be stats and athlete bios, however, so that seemed like the better tradeoff.
For the 3-day State meet, the solution was a bit cleaner. Each day, the previous day's results were removed and it was displayed as a 1-day meet, with all prelims and finals in one place. Not 100% accurate, but probably the best all around approach. The calendar entries were left intact, just no results for Days 1 and 2.
I imagine it would be complicated, but I can envision a meet/results editor that could either merge multi-day meets' results or view them merged on the fly; sort of a step beyond the option to view just a team's results or all results from a single meet.
I think it's best to keep the calendar entries for multi-day meets. Remember, it's a team schedule first and a means of posting results second.
Dan
We handled our district meet the same way...it is listed as multiple days because of the scheduling info that is so accessible to our kids and parents. And when we posted the results they were all listed on the Day 2 day of the schedule, and there were different results posted for prelims and for finals...you can see it here: http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/MeetResults.aspx?Meet=28590
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