Re: [pbmserv-dev] tournaments

[Paul van Wamelen <wamelen@math.lsu.edu>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Richard Rognlie wrote:

> oh wait.   someone has to implement it.

I'm willing and wanting to do it.

>  securely.

Huh?

> For tournament stuff, I don't see much need to automate it.  we have
> the ability to easily create round robin pools (via the "pool" script
> in the source tree) and auto matic notification of users in those
> pools (via the "notify" script in the source tree).

But someone still must collect names of those that want to play, keep
track of those who go to the next round and so on. I know this has been a
deterrent for me to organize a tournament.

How about if I write scripts for the "championship" tournament system I
outlined before. Making use of the pool script. So just these commands
"tournament game userid name add"
"tournament game userid name delete"
"tournament game list"
"tournament game start"
(pbmserv.pl will call tournament.pl to execute these commands)
The usual ratings command will show the tournament standings and
eventually I'll do a web interface to old tournament results.

I would like to also compute a SON (the total of the points the opponents
you beat got) in order to break (most) ties. That would need the standings
files to be more general (not just how many games one won and lost but
which games they were...)

Richard, if I coded these (on a test server) and I can get it to work,
will you let me install it on your machine?

Best,
Paul