Originally, when the Arena season started for World of Warcraft, there was no statistical tracking for teams, the Armory was still non-existant. So I took it upon myself to design a system to statistically track the ratings of teams, based on User Submission and via a UI Interface Mod (That would read your game), and then created a site to house the data. The database schema, framework, and sorting functionallity all worked. This system is powered by AJAX/PHP/MySQL, and was my version of the Armory, before it existed. It featured the following:

• Career Statistics for Teams and Individuals
• DHTML Layering, showing statistics requested by AJAX live on the sort.
• Drill-Down and Comparision Functionallity between teams.

This system however was scrapped, as the armory was released by blizzard, essentially making this program void. Program is best viewed in IE, because it was never tweaked to work in Firefox.

Before the release of Burning Crusade for World of Warcraft, I worked on a site that simulated healing potential for all classes in the game. The result was a program that gathered information about your talents, skills, buffs and abilities, and used in-game math to determine the outcome as well as statistical outcomes for each spell. The program could help you determine how good a piece of gear to upgrade was.

• Start by Selecting your Class, then enter all buffs/talents/etc.
• Ability to read data from CTProfiles (talents/gear/stats) and import them into the calculator.
• Using gathered statistics, showed outcomes and efficency of all your spells, and theoretical max outputs.

This system has since been retired and depreciated, since Burning Crusade has changed a lot of the dynamics in the system. Perhaps soon the system will be revived for Burning Crusade healing statistics, but for now it will sit in the archives.

With Blizzard releasing their Armory, all using XML, it has opened up numerous doors for us to play with the data directly from Blizzard's website. Well, this is one example of the way you can directly interpret that data in your website, directly with item linking. This program, when you mouse over an item link, will contact blizzard's servers directly and gather the statistics for that item, and display them as a mouse over!

• Integration into PHPBB2/3 and other apps
• Live data, caching Possible.
• Gathers data off of anything incased in [item][/item].

Theres a "How-to" on the site, as well as some downloads that can help anyone put this functionallity on their site!