So with all the index talk I can try to fill you all in on what's going on with it. There are only 3 people in HO chat that are really involved in it since it's very technical development work and most don't have the skills for it. In fact I don't know a lot of the code that is being used. Since the actual technical people working on it aren't really there to comment it didn't have it's own section in the state of the union, but it is a priority. Please keep in mind that the people working on the SHL Merch store, the twitter changes, and basically everything else in this original post are not the same people working on the development of the index, doing other work to improve the site is not taking time away from developing the new index.

I'd like to summarize for all of you how the new index works so that you have a bit more understanding of what goes into it. When the simmer uploads the CSV files that fhm exports a script runs to copy the information from those files to a MySQL database, we then run another script to tag all that information with what season it is from and organize it properly in our master database. We have an api (basically a text interface) that reads from the database and spits out raw information. The index sends a query to the api and displays the results in a readable format.

As for progress we have finished setting up the database, the import process is done, the api is done, the frontend/displays are not all done yet. We are working to finish the last pieces to have an index that has the same information as our current index has but with a much easier to use interface. From there we intend to add features to the index including career stats, linkage with the old bojobox info, boxscores, and more. I had hoped that we would have had this minimum index done a couple seasons ago but with anything that is volunteer, people get busy and up until recently we only had one developer for the frontend/display portion of this. Now we have two working on it and it's coming along. I don't have a timeline for it yet but I am hoping that we can move to it soon. Just like most of you I'm sick of looking at the terrible index I created on short notice when it was obvious that this one wasn't coming yet.