Feedback

[Broadway]

First off, you guys have done an incredible job on the website/tool so far. While just being in closed beta, it feels like its production ready from a quality standpoint. Moving into my feedback, I've separated my suggestions into categories to make it easier on the eyes. Also, I completely understand how long some of these suggestions could take to implement and don't want to come off as someone who expects these to be done ASAP. So, treat this list as an end-goal for the project.

Website Suggestions

1. Create/set an icon and name for the website. Looking at this is bothersome[puu.sh]
   
2. Add an option to disable auto-starting replay playback
   
3. Change the default sorting method to replay date instead of upload date on the list page
   
4. Advanced search queries to filter on:
   
   • Season
     
   • Map
     
   • Replay date
     
   • Specific stats
     
     • Ideally, it would be useful to have the ability to, for example, find a 3v3 match on mannfield that was within the last two weeks where I scored 3 or more goals and had the highest average speed on my team.
       
5. Add the ability to average your stats over multiple replays
   
   • This could be done by either:
     
     • Having the user specify a set of replays to analyze
       
     • Only taking the average of games that last a specified amount of time along with various other outliers
       
6. Add in a compact view for the replay list page showing the basics of the replay files
   
   • This would allow more replays to be shown per pages and could facilitate searching a bit more.
     

Stat Suggestions

1. Average shot speed
   
2. Average speed the player hits the ball
   
3. What side of the field the player most touches the ball
   
4. Time spent with "Low" Boost
   
   • I'd imagine it would be around 20-30 and would give the zero boost stat a bit more meaning since currently, the time spent on zero boost can be interpreted multiple ways. Either you are...
     
     • Constantly replenishing to full only to eat through the boost quickly after
       
     • Always on a low amount of boost and sustain yourself with small pads.
       
5. Player heatmaps
   
6. Demo heatmaps
   
7. Player ranks
   
   • I read the other thread in the discussion and while using rocketleaguestats is an option, Psyonix does offer API access to developers as part of a closed beta. It may be worth reaching out to them seeing as this project looks so great already.
     

Issues

1. Private matches display as unranked
   
   • RocketLeagueReplays had this as well so it may not be possible to distinguish between the two
     
2. Disconnected players do not show up in the stats
   
3. Leaving the upload page while uploads are queued/in-progress cancels the operation
   
4. The failed replay upload notification in the upper right-hand corner never goes away

Wishlist

1. A desktop client
   
   • Obviously not a high priority right now but having the option of a desktop viewer would be amazing.
     
2. A method of auto-uploading replays
   
3. Dark theme

[Can't Fly]

Oh wow, thank you for the detailed feedback Broadway!

Originally posted by Broadway:

First off, you guys have done an incredible job on the website/tool so far. While just being in closed beta, it feels like its production ready from a quality standpoint.

Aww thanks !

Originally posted by Broadway:

Create/set an icon and name for the website

Noted xD

Originally posted by Broadway:

Add an option to disable auto-starting replay playback

Noted.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Change the default sorting method to replay date instead of upload date on the list page

How I about I store the last select sort method and keep it for the next searches ?

Originally posted by Broadway:

Advanced search queries to filter on:
Season

I'm still working on integrating with the RocketLeagueStats API.
Once I have the necessary data, this would be easy to add.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Map
Replay date

Should be easy.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Ideally, it would be useful to have the ability to, for example, find a 3v3 match on mannfield that was within the last two weeks where I scored 3 or more goals and had the highest average speed on my team.

Whoa ! That sounds powerful but might be tougher to implement xD
I'll have to think more about how to go about this.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Add the ability to average your stats over multiple replays

Yup. This is already in the pipeline, but it might take some time: I need to first revamp the ways stats are computed/stored so that they are time based instead of global, then I'll start on this.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Add in a compact view for the replay list page showing the basics of the replay files

I already thought a bit about this one, but, while easy to implement, is such a view really useful/usable ?
For example, consider this screen shot from https://www.rocketleaguereplays.com:

https://i.imgur.com/ejfFG4f.png

For me, this view tells me nothing: I have no pointer/clues on the replay if I did not name it before saving it. I don't know if I'm in it or not, if I'm in it I don't know which team I was on, or if I was playing with my 2's mate or with a random, etc.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Average shot speed
Average speed the player hits the ball

The first should be doable based on the replay data, I think.

Not sure I understand the second: the speed the player was moving at just before taking the shot ?

Originally posted by Broadway:

What side of the field the player most touches the ball

Doable.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Time spent with "Low" Boost

Doable.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Player heatmaps

In the pipeline.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Demo heatmaps

Not sure about this one, since most game, afaict, have less than 5 demos.

Maybe a map where I just plot the demo locations as simple points, instead of "heatmap".

Originally posted by Broadway:

Player ranks

Yep, in progress.
I might give it a shot at contacting Psyonix, though. based on what I read online, the API access has not been granted for a while now.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Private matches display as unranked

I'll look into this.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Disconnected players do not show up in the stats

Yup. This is a "feature" of the replay file format xD

I'll copy/pasta my reply in another thread:

Yep, the replay files only stores stats for the players who finished the game.
This info is stored in the replay header.

For the stats part, I do go through all the replay frames and that's why you end up with all the players having entered/left the game, sometimes more then 4 in a 2v2 game for example.

I might end-up use that in the list view. I'll look into it.

Originally posted by Broadway:

Leaving the upload page while uploads are queued/in-progress cancels the operation

Apart from a warning popup before leaving, not sure I can do anything about this.

Originally posted by Broadway:

The failed replay upload notification in the upper right-hand corner never goes away

It might be badly explanined, but the red thingy is not a failed upload, rather a failed parsing/processing of the replay file.

The file was successfully uploaded, but my parser failed to process it.

Originally posted by Broadway:

A desktop client

xD We'll see about that in a while, once I/m done handling all the feedback you guys are gicing to me :D

Originally posted by Broadway:

A method of auto-uploading replays

Same :D

Originally posted by Broadway:

Dark theme

Me likey some dark theme !

Noted.


Thank you again for your valuable input.

[MsCinder<3Rawr<3]

Originally posted by Can't Fly:

Originally posted by Broadway:

Add in a compact view for the replay list page showing the basics of the replay files

I already thought a bit about this one, but, while easy to implement, is such a view really useful/usable ?
For example, consider this screen shot from https://www.rocketleaguereplays.com:

https://i.imgur.com/ejfFG4f.png

For me, this view tells me nothing: I have no pointer/clues on the replay if I did not name it before saving it. I don't know if I'm in it or not, if I'm in it I don't know which team I was on, or if I was playing with my 2's mate or with a random, etc.

I agree with Broadway here, a compact view would be nice as an option. But maybe it could be done with the best of both worlds. Implement the option of having the default view be compact, or default be expanded. But as well, have each "header" be able to expand information on the replay. That way if you upload a lot of replays, you can sort by date, scroll down to around the date you're looking for, and expand a few one at a time until you find the relevant replay.

Think of CSGO, how in its own built in replay viewer, you can see the map and score in the list of replays. However, if you want to know more about it, you click on it to expand the details it shows you. But personally, I wouldn't want it exactly like CSGO and would rather be able to have an expansion arrow somewhere in the header for each replay to minimize or maximize it on demand. Proabably place it next to the download button.

[Can't Fly]

Hi HoraryHellfire and thanks for chiming in.

I never played CSGO. Could you share some screenshots of how the replay viewer looks like ?

[MsCinder<3Rawr<3]

https://i.imgur.com/WdhOLis.jpg

Notice how on the left bar there is replays to click from, and the rest of the screen on its right is more information about the match, like who was in it. I personally don't prefer that type of system, but I thought it was relevant to mention.