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Football Competition: Sports League Championship properties

2008-10-07T21:44:20.0012Z

I did get confused with the two types, and you helped with your explation, so do I get this right (to use baseball):

* The World Series is a "recurring event"

* The 2008 World Series is an "event"

If that's the case, then football is littered with these so could do with some clarification.

I guess at the same time, does the "2008 MLB Season" then is a "sports league season", with "2008 World Series" as it's "championship"?

But then for the 2008 World Series (http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000006b8b47a), I don't get why it's a "sports league championship event", and an "event". Why doesn't one include the other?

Football League: Event Properties

2008-10-07T21:36:38.0012Z

A football league in the soccer sense, is an event as such, as a:

* it recurs every year

* has a start date

* has "things" invovled (teams rather than people, which change each year - unlike some American sports I guess)

Perhaps event isn't the best type to include, perhaps football league just needs beefed out with the relevant properties instead? I can think and make proper suggestions for discussion...

Football Organization: Pointless?

2008-10-07T21:23:24.0012Z

I guess to me on first look, any type that has no properties (but forces you to include another type on the item which fulfils the same purpose) is pointless, but I also see why that may be a bit harsh on it too.

Football organisation's tend to be silly (if I'm being honest), as they tend not to look after all the competitions in a given country (from Scotland for example):

* The Scottish FA, only look after the internation team, and the cup competition

* The Scottish Football League, look after the lower leagues, and the league cup

* The Scottish Premier League, only look after the top division

Also, UEFA has "members" (the countries assocation), as does FIFA, whereas the "sports association" doesn't have these properties (only teams).

Football is such a specific sport that it deserves it's own type, but feel that is should extend the given type (sports association in this case), rather than require both to be added...

Still not sure of the best way of explaining this in words like this, if that makes sense!

Football League: Event Properties

2008-10-07T18:41:42.0012Z

Should which include the properties? Football league? I'm not sure that makes sense. A football league isn't an event, is it?

Football Organization: Pointless?

2008-10-07T18:40:44.0000Z

Looks fairly pointless, yes. It's what we call a "bucket" -- something where the only useful semantics gained from typing something as this are that a thing "is-a" whatever.

At the very least this type should include "Sports Association".

Can we think of any properties that a football organization should have that are special to it? For instance, do they relate to teams, or to competitions? Can you say that teams are members of a football organization, or that a competition is run by them?

Football Competition: Sports League Championship properties

2008-10-07T18:38:14.0012Z

OK, some thoughts...

We could simply include the sports league championship type, which would cause all competitions to be co-typed as sports league championships, but are all competitions championships? I don't know the semantics here.

Another thing to think about wrt included types... are such competitions events, recurring events, or anything like that? I note that some are already co-typed as such. It seems reasonable that any given competition would have a start and end date and whatnot.

Or... another thought... should this type be used for "World Cup" or for "2008 World Cup"? Seems to me we've got the event/recurring event pattern going on here. Perhaps we should have two types?

Football Organization: Pointless?

2008-10-07T07:00:26.0018Z

Is this a pointless type given that "Sports Association" takes care of most of the required fields for this, and the fact that this doesn't have any properties?

Football Competition: Sports League Championship properties

2008-10-06T21:24:35.0018Z

Can we add the properties similar to the sports league championship type (http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/sports/sports_championship)?

Football competition seems rather empty...

Football League: Event Properties

2008-10-06T20:52:44.0018Z

Should this include the properties from /time/event (http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/time/event...

Football Stadium (do not use): Should this include "Structure"?

2007-10-22T23:39:06.0007Z

This type isn't set up properly and isn't adding any value - I'm going to retire it and just use Sports Facility.

Football Stadium (do not use): Should this include "Structure"?

2007-10-22T00:20:46.0000Z

Hmm, perhaps "Sports Facility".

Football Stadium (do not use): Should this include "Structure"?

2007-10-22T00:18:15.0005Z

Should this type include "Structure" or similar? Seems like it could use the properties it would gain that way, eg. location.

Dwarf Planet: Publishing this type?

2007-07-23T05:43:11.0004Z

Hi stu, Nice type, but I didn't know that it existed until I looked at the page history for Pluto ... would you be able to publish it so that the rest of us can use it? Thanks, Luke.

Star: RA points to educational_degree

2007-04-30T16:46:29.0006Z

Just FYI, the "degree" that the property "RA" is pointing to is /education/educational_degree, not the unit of circular measure. I don't think we have a type for degrees of a circle or angle; it should probably just be a floating point number.

Jethro Toe: Never a band name

2007-03-07T02:05:03.0012Z

This was just a typo, which is one reason it's a collector's item.

Jethro Toe: I Have a copy

2007-02-01T03:39:19.0011Z

Worth lots of money ;)

Jethro Toe: Jethro Tull's first recording!

2007-01-31T21:03:09.0011Z

The song was 'Sunshine Day' which MGM put out under the band name "Jethro Toe." Fortunately, it sold very few copies, which of course have become collectors' items. It was produced in 1968.

stu: The search Plugin is a great addition

2007-01-24T06:15:21.0011Z

in my opinion

stu: Game Sites

2006-12-08T23:34:14.0005Z

Why not join Stu's free Chess Club or one of the other game sites. They are all free!

The Secret: Getting Started in the Game

2006-12-08T23:25:54.0011Z

When you begin a new game, with no equipment except the map and compass you found in Angel Cavern where you awake. There are many locations (towns, altars, shrines) and are generically referred to as Towns in some of the game text. These locations serve various functions such as healing, buying items,buying maps, obtaining information, quests and more and displaying game information and much more. To heal yourself, click the "Rest at the Inn" in a town or select the Altar or Shrine or equivalent locale link on the screen. Each town's Inn or Altar has a different price - some towns are cheap, others are expensive. No matter what town you're in, the Inns or equivalent place or person always serve the same function: they restore your current hit points, magic points, and travel points to their maximum amounts. Out in the field, you are free to use healing spells to restore your hit points, but when you run low on magic points, the only way to restore them is at an Inn [unless you find some edible items in your travels.]. The Island has been mapped out by Magelle the Cartographer, and Veldur the Town Crier has added ouposts called MessagePosts. These messageosts are located close to towns or other placs of interest. At these Message Posts, the traveller can read the latest news, neet other adventurers and chat and send/read mail messages. Buying weapons and armor is accomplished through the appropriately-named "Buy Weapons/Armor" link. Not every item is available in every town, so in order to get the most powerful items, you'll need to explore some of the outer towns. Once you've clicked the link, you are presented with a list of items available in this town's store. To the left of each item is an icon that represents its type: weapon, armor or shield. The amount of attack/defense power, as well as the item's price, are displayed to the right of the item name. You'll notice that some items have a red asterisk (*) next to their names. These are items that come with special attributes that modify other parts of your character profile. See the Items & Drops table at the bottom of this page for more information about special items. Maps are the third function in towns. Buying a map to a town places the town in your Travel To box in the left status panel. Once you've purchased a town's map, you can click its name from your Travel To box and you will jump to that town. Travelling this way costs travel points, though, and you'll only be able to visit towns if you have enough travel points. The final function in towns is displaying game information and statistics. This includes the latest news post made by the game administrator, a list of players who have been online recently, and the Babble Box.