[VGPelega]

Ladders can work in 2 ways, TCat has given one way for a ladder to work, but I personally dislike that form of ladder, as it is somewhat flawed.

Its not the same as the ELO system, but not too different either.

The other way to do a ladder system is to base it on a "Only able to challenge upwards" format. This means, you restrict all teams/players from challenging downwards (I.E. worse teams, or new teams) ranked below them, and you can limit the number of places a challenger can actually "climb" in one challenge.

I used to run the set up, of only allowing teams to challenge up to 3 ranks above them. This worked well, as the key teams all held positions 1, 2 and 3, and it stopped clans ranked 45th, from taking the first place on the ladder with only one win. Basically forcing them to "climb" the ladder progressively, as well as gaining far more match experience.

I currently use a simple version of sums, to work out a points value, and that is how a team is awarded points, based on the reported result, of a Win, loss or draw. These points are admin configurable, and also tied into my vB database.

BananaLive if you want any help in figuring more of this out, I would be happy to contribute my assistance as best as I can, but I don't build or write mods for release, as my time is pretty well consumed as it is. I am currently playing around with your tournament script, and wouldn't mind being allowed to edit some of that myself as well.