Quizbowl software
Revision as of 03:27, 28 December 2010 by Ophir Lifshitz (talk | contribs) (Cleaning up; added more items (Jerome, ItALX, QBStatGen, etc., list of stats and packet formats))
Basically, lots of links to computery quizbowly stuff. Feel free to edit or help out in any way.
Question/packet databases
Search engines
- ACFDB
- Home page
- Jun 05, 2008 ACFDB - a new tossup database
- Gyaankosh
- Home page
- Sep 21, 2008 Some new question database
- Feb 25, 2009 Gyaankosh?
- QBDB
- Home page
- May 18, 2006 Quizbowl tournament database, alpha version
- Jan 13, 2008 return (sorta) of the question database
- May 03, 2008 QBDB thread
Comparison of search engines
| Name | Creator | Released | Updated | Questions | Tournaments | Tagging? | Rating? | Types of questions | Technology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACFDB (visit) | Carlo Angiuli | June 2008 | 13339 [1] | Yes | No | ACF Question Archive only | PHP and MySQL | ||
| Gyaankosh (visit) | Arnav Moudgil | September 2008 | Late 2010 | 50898 [2] | 99 [3] | Yes | No | Both collegiate and high school | Django (Python and MySQL) |
| QBDB (visit) | Jerry Vinokurov | May 2006 | Early 2010 | 37 | Yes | Yes | Collegiate only | PHP and MySQL |
Archives
- HS QB Packet Archive
- http://quizbowlpackets.com/
- Collegiate Packet Archive
- http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/
- Stanford Packet Archive
- http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/archive/
- ACF Question Archive
- http://www.acf-quizbowl.com/archive.php
- Wastebin
- http://www.doc-ent.com/trash/
- http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9100
Stats
Stats programs
- SQBS
- Home page – "for tracking and reporting statistics for virtually any quiz bowl tournament"
- QBSQL
- Google Code page – "online stats program for running quizbowl tournaments"
- New web-based quizbowl stats software project
- Round Report on Stats
- Taft
- Home page – discontinued; archived version – "record and share the statistics for your quiz bowl tournament"
- Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software
- Taft: Launching soon
- Taft launching soon...
- Taft now supports playoff brackets
- Shutting down Taft
- BEeS
- Home page – "integrate an entire quizbowl tournament into one seamless electronic experience"
- Announcing BEeS: A Better Electronic Stats program
- BEeS, Part 2
- QBStatGen
- Home page – "designed to create a more versatile statistics report from SQBS files"
- Tournament Central
- Home page
- QBTPS
Home page- I needed a database project
- Quiz Bowl Tournament Posting System (QBTPS)
- Tournament Director
Home page- SourceForge page
- GitHub page
- Livestat
- Home page
- JAGUARS
- SourceForge page
- Chris Carter's stats iPhone app
- Home page
- https://github.com/cdcarter
- Excel score sheets
- http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6742
- Excel Scoresheets on Hunter
Comparison of stats programs
| Name | Creator | Released | Updated | Version | Price | Output formats | Documentation | Platforms | Technology | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQBS (visit) | Chris Sewell | 2004 or earlier? | February 2010 | 4.0 | Free | SQBS, HTML | [4] [5] [6] | Windows only | ||
| QBSQL (visit) | Avram Lyon | October 2008 | February 2010 | 0.7.1 | Free | SQBS, HTML | [7] | All; web server required | PHP and MySQL | GNU GPLv2 |
| Taft (visit) | Evan Silberman | January 2007 | February 2010 | Discontinued | $25 per event | SQBS, HTML | All | Ruby on Rails | ||
| BEeS (visit) | Sean Skaar, Andrew Hart | Not yet | TBA |
- Statistics formats: SQBS; HTML, XML, Excel, etc.
- Feb 17, 2007 computer-assisted quiz bowl
- May 16, 2008 LaTex and packets
- Jun 09, 2009 Better Stats
- Feb 14, 2010 Stats programs and you
- Oct 05, 2010 statkeeping and online scoresheets (split from ACF Fall 2010)
Rankings
- NAQT Statistics Database
- Home page – "collects results and statistics from past tournaments that used NAQT questions; tracks record-setting performances and provides some quantitative rankings for every team in the nation"
- Aug 21, 2008 NAQT Statistics Database
- Byko's Quiz Bowl Quotients
- Home page – "A rating system for high school quiz bowl"
Packet formats and parsing
- ItALX
- Home page – "ItALX is designed to allow easy LaTeX typesetting for quiz bowl competition packets"
- Oct 10, 2006 SURVEY & RESULTS: NAQT JIAT 2006 (10/7/06) @ TJHSST (NoV
- QB Toolbox
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbtools/
- QBML
- Jul 09, 2007 QBML: wouldn't it be nice?
- Aug 18, 2007 Packet archive project...what you can do to help
- May 16, 2008 LaTeX and packets
- Alejandro's Packet Parser
- Dec 26, 2010 Packet Parser
- Packet file formats: Word, ODF, RTF, PDF, HTML, QBML (unstandardized; many variations exist), plain text, lightweight markup languages (many variations exist), QBBot, LaTeX
- Packet formatting rules: ACF, NAQT, mACF, PACE, etc.
Tournaments
Tournament writing
- Jerome (ca. 2004)
Home page- Technophobia 9
- Aug 09, 2005 Jerome information
- May 16, 2008 LaTeX and packets
- QED (Question Editing Database)
- Home page
- Jul 4, 2006 Question Editing Database 1.00
- Tournament Question Database
- http://www.scobo.net/qdb.aspx
Tournament management
- See Taft, BEeS above
Tournament databases
- 2005 tournament database
- Aug 22, 2005 Tournament database feedback
- HSQB Tournament Database
- hsquizbowl tournament database
- Aug 29, 2008 New tournament database for all quizbowl events
Other
IRC and stuff
- TriviaBot
- http://www.aegisquestions.com/triviabot/
- http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8147
- http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~alopezlago/qbbot/
- http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2981
- http://code.google.com/p/qbbot/
- Quizzy
- http://code.google.com/p/quizzy/
- http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8871
Misc
- Audio Match Hosting Software
- Aug 12, 2005 Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software
- "Evan Silberman's technological wankery"
- http://www.hsquizbowl.org/qbtxt/
- http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7364
Study guides
- http://ai.stanford.edu/~csewell/culture/
- http://www.naqt.com/YouGottaKnow/
- http://acequizbowlcamp.com/free-stuff/