UPDATE: Please only report games which your team played at home for now. If you played away, do not report anything. Keep screenshots for game overview and individual stats as backup at any time!
Hey NHL Gamers,
If anyone of you was thinking we stopped working on the website after releasing it's new design, you were blatantly wrong
As always, our technical mastermind @Lurkins has been brewing fine stuff in the background, and today we are releasing some more of it to the public: Our EA SPORTS Stats API. We have been in contact with game developers about this some time ago, and I want to use this opportunity for a shoutout to them for their quick support in this matter.
What's an API?
What this new tool allows us to do is fetch stats of challenge games directly from EA's servers, and it will save you a great amount of work when reporting games. We will add most of the game's details including individual player stats automatically for you, however there is still some manual work involved as EA does not give us all the details at this stage.
What do I need to add manually?
We require you to enter time on attack, amount of penalties as well as all goal events (including times, scorers and assistants) and penalty events (including times, affected players and penalty reasons). Of course you still need to submit a press conference.
Important things to note
- MAKE SURE YOUR PROFILE CONTAINS THE CORRECT PSN ID. We can only match IDs that are available and correct, obviously.
- Matches need to be played via the "Challenge Club" feature. Drop in games or the recently added PIN matchmaking won't show up.
- HOME CAPTAIN reports the game for both teams. The away captain should not report anything. This means the home captain always needs to report all of the opponent's stats and events in addition to their own team.
- The other team's captain can use the tool to submit their press conference afterwards, everything else will already be there.
- This tool can currently only be used for games which were not disconnected! We are able to track those, and it won't allow you to report anything for these (this will be improved in the future).
- For disconnected games, you need to use the old tool, which will be highlighted noticeably on the API page like this:
Demonstration video by @gzell60
Can I still use the old tool to report games which ended without a disconnect?
Technically yes, however you won't be able to submit individual player stats. Do not use the old tool anymore, as it will be depleted as soon as we are able to take care of disconnected games in a good way.
Where do I access the API?
The new tool will be available from the main page via PS4 Team Tools -> Add match (EA API). The old tool will be linked on the next page in case you need to report a game which was disconnected.
Let's hear from your opinions after tonight's games - see you on the ice!
NHLGamer.com
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