10-05-2009, 09:19 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Officepools.com?
Anyone know what is going on with Officepools.com? I setup my work hockey pool on the weekend, got no stats, and then today it appears to be down.
Anyone know of a similiar website that I can setup a box selection type pool on?
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10-05-2009, 09:23 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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onlinepools.com
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10-05-2009, 09:24 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Khel
Anyone know what is going on with Officepools.com? I setup my work hockey pool on the weekend, got no stats, and then today it appears to be down.
Anyone know of a similiar website that I can setup a box selection type pool on?
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Their stats processing thingy (technical term) was having issues they said they were aware of, they had posted that they would be installing a software upgrade last night... apparently it went poorly, par for course in IT though, give it a few hours (days?), if they can get their stuff together no website does it better.
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10-05-2009, 11:17 AM
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Scoring Winger
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For the times it wasn't down in the last couple days, I must say, the new interface \ layout sucks.
They really dropped the ball this year. I won't be surprised if a lot of pools go to other sites.
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Last edited by kdogg; 08-17-2011 at 04:01 PM.
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10-05-2009, 02:19 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary, AB
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A pool I am in is usually managed on officepools. It looks it will be moving to poolexpert now because of how bad officepools is. The guy organizing it hasn't paid yet, so officepools will be abandoned.
It's pretty stupid of them to do an upgrade during everyone's free trial.
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10-05-2009, 02:25 PM
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Space Sector 2814
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Even when it was up I didn't like the new office pools set up..
Already paid for this year, but next year I think we will be moving set ups as well.
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10-05-2009, 02:51 PM
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Space Sector 2814
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Hrmm I was just on the officepools site and they said..
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A decision has been made to put the old Officepools site back up. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience we have caused you over the last few days. We appreciate both your patience and your loyalty. We will be posting further details on the homepage shortly
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But now the site is reverted, they must be in the process right now.
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10-05-2009, 03:27 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Yeah, I saw that message as well that they are going to revert.
Someone's in trouble...
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10-05-2009, 03:36 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary
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I still get a webpage cannot be displayed message...
I wonder if I may have to recreate my pool... my gut instinct is yep, everyone will... glad my pool is small...
wow they will prolly lose a ton of business over this...
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10-05-2009, 03:42 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
I wonder if I may have to recreate my pool... my gut instinct is yep, everyone will... glad my pool is small...
wow they will prolly lose a ton of business over this...
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I'm thinking the same thing, I just went through all the work to get it setup!
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10-05-2009, 03:51 PM
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Section 304
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Man I would hate to be working there right now. I've had a site go down that didn't matter and it felt awful.
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10-05-2009, 04:01 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Russic
Man I would hate to be working there right now. I've had a site go down that didn't matter and it felt awful.
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I dont understand why it doesn't matter? Was that a typo or are you serious? A fail attempt at funny?
Just becuase its about hockey pools it doesn't matter? Pretty sure it employs some folks and it is very possible it may not be able to employ those people anymore if it losses a ton of business... I think they would disagree with that... not to mention my time and others that entered their pool info over the last couple weeks and will possibly have to redo that work...
What a very odd comment to bother making...
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10-05-2009, 04:02 PM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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No, I think he means that HIS site didn't matter and he felt awful, so it's hard to imagine how much worse it would feel to have an important site go to crap.
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10-05-2009, 04:15 PM
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Section 304
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
I dont understand why it doesn't matter? Was that a typo or are you serious? A fail attempt at funny?
Just becuase its about hockey pools it doesn't matter? Pretty sure it employs some folks and it is very possible it may not be able to employ those people anymore if it losses a ton of business... I think they would disagree with that... not to mention my time and others that entered their pool info over the last couple weeks and will possibly have to redo that work...
What a very odd comment to bother making...
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lol ... i'm not sure how you're reading it but I'll rewrite my statement.
I would feel awful to work at officepools right now because anytime a site goes down it is a horrible, stressful experience. I myself have worked on very unimportant sites that have crashed and even that is incredibly stressful.
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10-05-2009, 08:39 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Russic
lol ... i'm not sure how you're reading it but I'll rewrite my statement.
I would feel awful to work at officepools right now because anytime a site goes down it is a horrible, stressful experience. I myself have worked on very unimportant sites that have crashed and even that is incredibly stressful.
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my bad, I was really hoping i misunderstood as I read it as wrong as it could have been, lol. I know what you mean about being stressed when systems fail or a well planned deployment gets screwed by an unknown OMG thing no one thought of... glad to see you meant well 
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10-06-2009, 01:49 AM
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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i was wondering why our work hockey pool took way longer to get setup than usual, and they switched from officepools to hockeydraft.ca. seeing this makes sense now
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10-06-2009, 06:16 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Vancouver
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So they say they are going to go to the old site? To access it, do we have to go to officepools.com then click the link that takes you back to the old one? That is very annoying.
I've never tried any of the other free sites but am thinking of doing so because my pool is tiny, and I'd rather give the $20 to the winner instead of setup fees. Does anyone know the main differences between officepools and the free ones?
Last edited by burnin_vernon; 10-06-2009 at 06:19 AM.
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10-06-2009, 01:26 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Saint John, NB
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we use pickuphockey.com for ours seems to work pretty good. Although i am not the administrator so can't offer any opinion on that side of it.
tim
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10-07-2009, 08:24 AM
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Space Sector 2814
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Not to take away from Warren Baker, but Officepools Retro is back!
God I Love this pool... so all you have to do is just go to officepools.com and click on the link at the top that will take you to the retro officepools... and bam you are back in business. QQ.
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