If you have any questions about what the task involves, etc please feel free to ask here: LINK. I have been a researcher and tester since before the summer and should be able to answer any questions about the role.
UPDATE: The researcher positions have now been filled.
Here are the details from Jeff:
We've added a few researchers in the run-up to the beta release, but we still have some volunteer research positions we'd like to fill ASAP. They are:
- OHL (this is the highest priority, we want it playable in the first version)
- Slovakia
- Switzerland
- Central Hockey League
- NCAA Division I (possibly broken down by conference, but I'd prefer having one person doing it all)
(those four are less likely to be playable - the Central, Swiss and Slovak leagues might be, but not the NCAA. We'd just like complete data there because it's such a large source of players.)
Rating players is the "fun" part of the job, but fair warning: you'd also need to be doing stuff like checking/fixing team data, entering player biographical data (some of it's already there, but frequently stuff is missing), and the other boring, not-so-fun things that comprise the majority of hockey database work.
The OHL job will require a lot of time over the next month, the other ones won't be quite so urgent.