GDA Article Day - 15th Feb 2009

Oh yes, yet again another lovely Sunday getting another article out of the way (Ranking 2).

I completed most of it last night but I didn't finish it as I was investigating the average age (median or mean) of members participating in Rankings. Don't ask!!!! Why did he do that you're saying!!!!! Well I just felt like adding something new to this article and the fact was I could!!!!! And all because I have been so persistant with the records since I joined. A sucker for punishment I agree but proves my point that if the records exist things like this can be acheived quite easily.

For this I did a formula on our database that gave me the age of each player. Then I marked the players that attended the ranking and exported that list to MS Excel. This way I used the function MEDIAN to get the statistical value of the middle age which worked out to be 30.5. You can use the MEAN value instead (average age) but with outliers it doesn't reflect a correct statistical figure.

BTW an outlier is as follows; consider the ages 18, 25, 26, 33, 63, 64. You can quickly see the outliers are the numbers that could seriously affect the average. Notice the differences between the ages 18 to 25, 26 to 33 which is 7 years difference. Now the Outliers are 63 & 64 which has a difference from the age 33 to 63 of 30 years. Such a difference between the average difference of 7 years TOTALLY gives an untrue statistical result. This is why I used the MEDIAN value which is the half way point instead of the average which is the ages added devided by the total number of players.

Anyways enough of that jejejeje (it was interesting for me), the article was completed and sent to the media, members & contacts.

In the interest of coordinating my week I go back through the emails and get a few things out of the way such as forward an email to HarryP. concerning the Youth Dutch Open which might be interest to a few youth players.

I send an email to madondarts.co.uk as I have ordered some stock for a Spanish company as a favour seeing I can speak English and have requested to them if they have not shipped the order yet to please include 5 red dartboard surrounds. Lets see what they say. If they have already shipped it then we need to speak to Dylan as he has ordered these in the past and I think cheaper than what I possibly will get them for, we will see tomorrow.

Lastly I reply to an email concerning a person who wants to register the keywords "gibraltardarts". The domain registrar has contacted me to avoid possible future disputes as they have cancelled the other parties request for 5 days waiting my reply. I have been quite clear that we own the name and if other sites use our keywords that the consequences can be bad for us.

When people search for us in google using our keywords (see next paragraph), if they are taken to another site which is not http://www.gibraltardarts.com/ then surely there's something wrong.

Keywords / phrases we use are for example "darts in Gibraltar, Gibraltar darts, darts on the rock" and the like, I think you get the point. Now imagine if some big gun registers a similar Internet name and adds these keywords, slowly but surely and especially if they pay google they start appearing in front of our website. No No No No and No....