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imported>WillC: /* Additional Findings */

2016-04-17T02:02:26Z

Additional Findings

imported>WillC at 22:04, 14 April 2016

2016-04-14T22:04:46Z

imported>Ed: /* Deciding Contract Type */

2016-04-14T21:58:58Z

Deciding Contract Type

imported>Ed at 21:57, 14 April 2016

2016-04-14T21:57:38Z

imported>Ed at 21:39, 14 April 2016

2016-04-14T21:39:00Z

imported>Ed at 21:02, 14 April 2016

2016-04-14T21:02:44Z

imported>WillC at 22:01, 8 April 2016

2016-04-08T22:01:12Z

imported>Sahil at 22:34, 18 March 2016

2016-03-18T22:34:26Z

imported>Sahil: Documentation of General Fanager Webcrawler

2016-03-14T20:15:49Z

Documentation of General Fanager Webcrawler

imported>Sahil at 19:41, 14 March 2016

2016-03-14T19:41:51Z

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 Is CPI necessary??
 Sources:
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_salary_cap#Trades_and_salary_retention]
 [https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/wiki/contracts#wiki_entry_level_contracts_.28elc.29_and_elc_slides]
 ==Variables==

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 Sources:
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_salary_cap#Trades_and_salary_retention]
+[https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/wiki/contracts#wiki_entry_level_contracts_.28elc.29_and_elc_slides]
 ==Variables==

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 *We have contract type declared as Standard or NULL then:
 **Age based choices:
 **If age > 35 and new contract then TFP
 **If Age is <=21 and length is 3 then Entry Level
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 **If Age is <25 and he doesn't have the right length then RFA
 **If age > 25 <= 27 then RFA
 *If contract type is Standard and Exp Status is RFA then RFA
 *If the player has a previous contract, use its expiry status, irrespective of whether type is Standard or NULL

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 Simple decisions:
 *We have contract type declared as Entry Level or Thirty-Five Plus -- Just use this
 *We have contract type declared as Standard or NULL then:
-**If the player has a previous contract, use its expiry status, irrespective of whether type is Standard or NULL
+**Age based choices:
-**If contract type is Standard and Exp Status is RFA then RFA
+**If age > 35 and new contract then TFP
-**Else if the contract type is NULL then:
+**If Age is <=21 and length is 3 then Entry Level
-***If Age is <=21 and length is 3 then Entry Level
+**If Age is >=22 <24 and length is 2 then Entry Level
-***If Age is >=22 <24 and length is 2 then Entry Level
+**If Age is >=24 <25 and length is 1 then Entry Level
-***If Age is >=24 <25 and length is 1 then Entry Level
+**If Age is <25 and he doesn't have the right length then RFA
-***If Age is <25 and he doesn't have the right length then RFA
+**If age > 25 <= 27 then RFA
-***If age > 25 can't be Entry Level...
+**If age >=27 & <35 and new contract then UFA
-****If age >=27 & <35 then UFA
+**If age >35 and new contract then TFP
-****If age > 35 then TFP
+*If contract type is Standard and Exp Status is RFA then RFA

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 ***If Age is <25 and he doesn't have the right length then RFA
 ***If age > 25 can't be Entry Level...
-****If age >=27 & <35 the UFA
+****If age >=27 & <35 then UFA

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:02, 14 April 2016
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	$signbonus =~ s/[^\d]//g;		$signbonus =~ s/[^\d]//g;
	Now with all that you should have all of the data that I looked for in its own variable, to do whatever you want with.		Now with all that you should have all of the data that I looked for in its own variable, to do whatever you want with.
		+
		+	==Deciding Contract Type==
		+
		+	Simple decisions:
		+	*We have contract type declared as Entry Level or Thirty-Five Plus -- Just use this
		+	*We have contract type declared as Standard or NULL then:
		+	**If the player has a previous contract, use its expiry status, irrespective of whether type is Standard or NULL
		+	**If contract type is Standard and Exp Status is RFA then RFA
		+	**Else if the contract type is NULL then:
		+	***If Age is <=21 and length is 3 then Entry Level
		+	***If Age is >=22 <24 and length is 2 then Entry Level
		+	***If Age is >=24 <25 and length is 1 then Entry Level
		+	***If Age is <25 and he doesn't have the right length then RFA
		+	***If age > 25 can't be Entry Level...
		+	****If age >=27 & <35 the UFA

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:01, 8 April 2016
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	Follow instructions given on the website. Macs already come with Perl, using the stackbuilder application which was also downloaded through the same link, download the PL/Perl package.		Follow instructions given on the website. Macs already come with Perl, using the stackbuilder application which was also downloaded through the same link, download the PL/Perl package.
		+
		+	==Additional Findings==
		+
		+	The NHL as an organization cares about players birthdays as of June 30th of the season year, this determines players eligibility for contracts UFA and 35-plus. Due to this as of now age is calculated based on June 30th cut off.
		+
		+	RFA: Player has fewer than seven years of accrued seasons AND younger than 27 at the end of a league year using June 30th as cut off.
		+	UFA: More than 7 years of accrued seasons OR is 27 or older at the end of a league year.
		+	35-plus: Automatically in effect when a player reaches 35 in the cut off of a certain season.
		+	Exceptions to the RFA, UFA rules occur when listed in source.
		+
		+	There are no loans in the NHL (trades only), so when a player has switched teams we take the last team in the string of teams as that is where he probably spent most of the season. Also contract ownership switches from team to team with a caphit somewhere between 50-100% taken on by the new team.
		+
		+	Is CPI necessary??
		+
		+	Sources:
		+	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL_salary_cap#Trades_and_salary_retention]

	==Variables==		==Variables==

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 to store all the data from each player. For the players without their own page these are the locations I found their data
   foreach my $player (@{$tables[0]->{_content}[1]->{_content}}){
-    $name = $player->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0];
+     $name = $player->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0];
-    $position = $player->{_content}[1]->{_content}[0];
+     $position = $player->{_content}[1]->{_content}[0];
-    $age = $player->{_content}[2]->{_content}[0];
+     $age = $player->{_content}[2]->{_content}[0];
 for players with their own page, the position and age can be found at the same place but the name and link to their page are found elsewhere.
-    $name = $player->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0];
+     $name = $player->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0];
-    $link = $player->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0]->{href};
+     $link = $player->{_content}[0]->{_content}[0]->{href};
-the link should be of the form /players/playerid# to which you can add http://www.generalfanager.com to get <nowiki>http://www.generalfanager.com/players/playerid#</nowiki> which is the link to that player's page. Using that link you can use the same method as described above to pull the HTML from that page and parse it into a tree structure.
+the link should be of the form /players/playerid# to which you can add http://www.generalfanager.com to get <nowiki>http://www.generalfanager.com/players/playerid#</nowiki> which is the link to that player's page. Using that link you can use the same method as described above to pull the HTML from that page and parse it into a tree structure. In order to do this I looped through all the players in playerdict, making sure to avoid any players without their own page.

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 Using the LWP::Simple library makes it easy to rip the HTML off the website by simply doing,
   $content = get(your url as a string here);
-The URL used to access the General Fanager page containing data from all the players is [http://www.generalfanager.com/players http://www.generalfanager.com/players].
+The URL used to access the General Fanager page containing data from all the players is [http://www.generalfanager.com/players http://www.generalfanager.com/players]. Occasionally the function will pull a webpage without any actual content in it. I don't know why this happens and it appears to be very inconsistent.
 Now the HTML::Tree library allows us to parse the HTML code into a more accessible tree structure.
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   $tree->look_down( '_tag', 'tag of what you are looking for here')
 Will return an array with each element of the array containing the HTMl tree down from where the tag was found. I used the tag table because it was the most specific tag above the player stat, and put the resuls into the @tables variable.
-Now in order to access the data of each individual player you must look inside the @tables variable
+Now in order to access the data of each individual player you must look inside the @tables variable.

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 The Perl Libraries I used to create this webcrawler are
   use strict;
-  use LWP::Simple;
+  use [http://search.cpan.org/~ether/libwww-perl-6.15/lib/LWP/Simple.pm LWP::Simple];
   use [http://search.cpan.org/~cjm/HTML-Tree-5.03/lib/HTML/Tree.pm HTML::Tree];
-Using the LWP::Simple library makes it easy to rip the HTML off the website by simply doing
+Using the LWP::Simple library makes it easy to rip the HTML off the website by simply doing,
   $content = get(your url as a string here);
-Now the HTML::Tree library
+The URL used to access the General Fanager page containing data from all the players is [http://www.generalfanager.com/players http://www.generalfanager.com/players].