I run a golfing ladder, so the highest score doesnt win...the lowest does. Can someone give me some direction as how to change that functionality? is it possible?

Also want to repeat a previous question. Is there any way to manually add players to a ladder as an admin? and secondly a way to reorder/rerank players as the admin?

Thanx.
Tj.

Anyone having any postbit issues?

I enabled (in Options) for the info to appear in both profile and postbit. It appears in profile but no luck with the postbit.

Is there an error with the Elo Calculator?

I have a guy who is 3-0 he didn't get to #1.

He fought someone who is 2-0 and is now 3-1 and he has dropped down to 25 he is actually now behind someone who is 0-3. In addition it says his longest winning streak is 4, when in reality its 3 since he is 3-1.

That seems off.

I have a few suggestions, I love this mod and I see great potential with it.

The admin should be allowed to decide what score each player on a specific ladder starts with. In other words instead of starting with 1000 points maybe I want them to start with a big goose egg.

I also like the idea posted earlier about a manual ranking style or a possible vote ranking style maybe based off ip address or user or something of that nature. Anyway, keep up the good work.

You (the admin) will advance players to next round, hence you have the power... And there are no "scores" in this mod.

Yes, see that applying to a tournament. But what about a ladder....being able to manually place people on a ladder/adjust their rank?

Also, the mod does request a score when you report a match. It asks for the winning/losing score. And thats how it determines who the winner is of that match.

Something doesn't seem right with the ELO calculator:
http://forum.ottawagolf.com/ladders.php?do=elorating

No matter what the score is, the resulting ratings are always the same if the beginning ratings are the same and the winner of the match is the same.

Also, the larger the margin of difference is between opponents is the less gain a winning underdog gets. Example:
If a 1000 beats a 1001 the resulting ratings are 1024.92(winner) and 988.46(loser)
If a 1000 beats a 1030 the resulting ratings are 1022.84(winner) and 1016.42(loser)
and so on up to 1000 beating 2000 resulting in ratings of 1000.15 (winner) and 1975.07(loser)
Shouldn't beating a better opponent result in a higher rating than beating a lesser opponent?
Something just seems wrong with this calculator to me.

Ohh sorry I misread it. :p


Anyway sorry can't help you with that, we only run tournaments on our site.. :(

There are so many places where is it configured it would be very difficult to change it to lowest score wins.

And no. If i get a chance I'll add it.

I've just checked and it works fine on my forum.

Elo rating calculator is wrong. The formula is incorrect - it has yet to be updated to latest one.

I've checked elo formula and found only one error with longest winning streak always increasing by 1 in some circumstances.

I've played around with my test ladder with different scores and here are the results:

player 1 starts on 1083 and player 2 on 1000; p1 loses 2-3; new elo-ranks are 1057 and 1026

p1 starts on 1000 and p2 on 1057; p1 wins 4-2; new elo-ranks are 1026 and 1031

p1 starts on 1050 and p2 on 1000; game is draw; new elo-ranks are 1047 and 1003

p1 starts with 1047 and p2 with 1031; p1 wins 3-2; new elo-ranks are 1050 and 1025


These are all correct. (A higher k-value will mean one match will alter elo-rating more)

Do you know when you will have the updated version out yet? Thanks.

Can you tell me what template hook you used?

hey, i can't add tournaments or ladders after upgrade. can seomebody help me ?

No idea.

$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts]

Check your usergroup permissions.

i already did. i got all permissions as admin...

You should have the following options in usergroup permissions

Tournament and Ladder Permissions
Can View Tournaments Yes No
Can Join Tournaments Yes No
Can Create Tournaments Yes No
Tournament Moderator Users with this option selected have full control over all tournaments. Yes No
Can Comment on Tournaments Yes No
Can Delete All Comments on Tournaments Yes No
Can Delete their own Comments on Tournaments Yes No
Can Create New Team Yes No
Can Request to Join Team Yes No
Can Edit and Delete All Teams Team leaders can edit and delete their own teams Yes No
Maximum teams a user can create Based on number teams the user has created.


More Tournament and Ladder Permissions
Can View Ladders Yes No
Can Join Ladders Yes No
Can Create Ladders Yes No
Can Edit Ladders Yes No
Can add a user to a team No conformation is needed by the user or the team leader(s). Yes No


What error(s) are you getting? Or is it the standard no permission page?

Ok, well I looked at your plug-in and it appeared to use a different template hook...

$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_left]

... I changed it and it still didn't work, so I just manually entered your postbit template into my legacy template so it appears now.

No error Message, when i want to add a tournament or ladder it does nothing, it leaves me at the main page...

try importing attached file

still doesn't work :-(

having an issue joining a team after i've left it (was just testing things and bam)

My members PM link doesnt work when clicking to see challenges?

Any ideas.

Are you using vbseo?

After you request to join a team, the team leader will need to confirm he/she wants you in his/her team.

Which page is this on?

Is there a way you can add an edit to only allow the winner to post wins

I've seen instances where Player B will accept Player A's challenge and if Player B wins, Player A won't confirm that they lost.

it was working before vbuletin 3.8.3 update...

The player encountering problems should click the report image https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/ on the right hand side of the challenge. Then you (or any other ladder admins) can confirm the score. There is option for player reporting the match to provide a screenshot as proof of score.

I have yet to install vb 3.8.3 but i dont think that would cause any issues.

If you view page source

Search for following occurance:

ok cool. as long as there is a way to overwrite someone who doesn't report i'm happy.

What about calculating averages? For example, I'll be using this for football games. Is there a way for you to calculate the averages of multiple games played . For instance if I play 3 games and score 30 points total in all 3, my average will be 10 points a game. This would be fun to allow users to see, who scores the most. Who has the best D, etc ,etc. you could allow the admin to determine what stats users must enter. and only the winner would have to enter the stats.

when i want to add a tournament it shows this code:

i changed it to:

now it works. but if you don't change it, it doesn't work. same for ladder adding

The private mail message that gets sent with the you have been challenged quote to the members mailbox.

Ahh, i know where you mean.

Where does the link point to?

The contents of the pm is defined in the template: tmnt_ladder_chalpm

This is not saving the permission's, what it does do thou is create another usergroup when you update, i've renamed my admincp, could that effect the settings? :confused:

No-one else has encountered this problem, so it probably is due to another modification. Try disabling other modifications installed on your forum.

Renaming your admincp should not be the problem.