Major Additions - Forum Tournaments & Ladders

[Script Demo] [Version History]
Compatible with 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x

Tournament Description:
Users or teams can join tournaments. Once full the tournament starts. In single elimination tournaments competitors progress through rounds of tournament with the number of rounds depending on the number of players in tournament which is set on tournament creation. Last Man Standing Tournaments also supported.
[Screenshot of Single Elimination Tournament (Slightly outdated)]

Ladder Description:
Users or teams can also join ladders and challenge other players or teams in the ladder. Elo rating system is used which calculates the difficultly of a match according to the players' ranks and this is taken into account when the ranks are updated after the match is finished.

Feature List:

• Tournament Features
  • Hall of Fame (Top 10 Tournament Players)
  • Permissions can be set per usergroup
    (AdminCP -> Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> {Select Usergroup} -> Tournament Permissions)
  • Tournaments start automatically when no slots are left
  • Tournaments have proper Date/ Time converted to users timezone and DST
  • 2 Tournament Modes: Last Man Standing and Single Elimination
  • Filter Tournaments Displayed according to Tournament Status
  • Tournament User Stats Page
  • 'Start Tournament' for Single Elimination adds bye players and creates brackets
• Tournament options
  • Turn on/off tournament
  • Create Thread on Tournament Creation
  • Tournament Stats in Member Profile
  • Tournament Stats in Postbit (Can be turned on/off in Tournament Options)
  • Comments per page
  • Tournament description length shown in tournament List
• Tournament Display
  • LMS realtime ranking shows if players are equal positions
  • Tournament View Counter
  • Tournament creator and last edited by notes at bottom of tournament
• Tournament Moderators can...
  • Add/edit tournament (description uses vBulletin Editor)
  • Edit tournament type if not started yet
  • Add Score type (points, wins, kills, deaths, etc.) for LMS tournaments
  • Tournament mods can remove players if tournament hasn't started
  • Increase/ Decrease Tournament Slots
  • Pm all competitors with custom message and title (permissions set to bypass max pm recipients restrictions)
  • Add players (Ajax/Javascript userid fetch)
  • Swap players in LMS mode
  • Create/ edit/ delete announcements
• Competitors can...
  • Players can remove themselves if tournament hasn't started
  • Users can PM themselves the details of the tournament
  • Sign up to tournament only once
• Tournament Comments
  • Uses vBulletin Editor
  • Comment Display with user avatars and last edited by note
  • User able to edit/delete their own comment (subject to permissions)
  • Tournament moderators can edit all comments
  • If applicable under username on comments Tournament Creator, Tournament Competitor or Tournament Winner
  • Comment paging
• Teams
  • Users can apply to teams
  • Leader can accept/ decline users
  • Team profile shows team stats
  • Team list
  • Can limit teams created by user (in usergroup options)
  • Fields: team website, gamertag, logo, description, slog, tags
• Team leader can...
  • delete players from his/her team
  • Promote players in his/her team to Leader or Co-Leader
  • Join tournaments
• Ladder Features
  • Elo rating system (Javascript Elo calculator @ ladders.php?do=elorating)
  • Players last activity (date)
  • Winning/ Losing Streak
  • Longest Winning Streak
  • Admin can submit scores/ add challenges
  • Report/ dispute challenges
• Ladder Display
  • leader-board for each ladder
  • last 10 upcoming/ past matches per ladder
  • separate page for accepting/rejecting challenges and submitting score (have to be accepted by other user)
• Tournament Announcements
  • Tournament Moderators can create/edit announcements
  • Uses forum last visit for announcement read marking
  • Shows last user to edit announcement
• Categories
  • Share categories for tournaments/ ladders
  • Category displays in navbar when viewing ladder/ tournament

Installation:

1. Follow instructions included in .zip
2. If you are using v3.6.x you will need to download this product file and import it
   (It contains memberinfo css which is used in profile comments in v3.7.x and is in used in Tournaments Comments and Team Profiles)
3. Click Install

Future Features:

• Add more Different Tournament Types (Double Elimination and Round Robin)
• Allowing a player to only join one team per ladder
• Use 3.7/3.8 notification system
• My Teams page
• Easy way to Re-arrange users in tournament
• Limit number of challenges per week/day
• Ladder match finder
• Custom message included in challenge pm sent to user

Donations:

• If you want to donate please click 'Support Developer'

Translations:

• German/ Deutsch http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/showthread.php?t=5594
• French/ fran?aise http://www.vbulletin-ressources.com/...itions-t15101/

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by OttawaGolf

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.

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

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by vash911

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

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by bananalive

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)

[aztecboi2003]

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

[BlueNinjaGo]

Originally Posted by bananalive

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

Can you tell me what template hook you used?

[Playa82]

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

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by aztecboi2003

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

No idea.

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by BlueNinjaGo

Can you tell me what template hook you used?

$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts]

[bananalive]

Originally Posted by Playa82

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

Check your usergroup permissions.

[Playa82]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Check your usergroup permissions.

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