Major Additions - TIO/FTL Compatible Ranking Ladder System LITE

This ranking system is based very loosely on the Association of Tennis Professionals ATP Entry Ranking System (as apposed to their ATP Race System). What this means, is that players are ranked by the total scores of their best performances within a specified time period. Using this system solves many problems within other ranking systems; especially race systems that tend to give preference to players who attend the most tournament events. This system ensures a more accurate calculation on the relative performances of players.

With this system, a player's rank is calculated using their best scores within a specified time period. Stronger players are not penalized because they had a "bad day", and weaker players are not rewarded by attending the most events. By specifying best scores limit, a player's weakest performances will be ignored in the ranking calculations (provided that player attends enough tournaments to exceed the limit). By specifying a time period, the system will automatically weed out stale rankings and remove players who are no longer active.

What is this mod?

Using this system, you can put together a fully featured ranking system for your tournaments. The purpose of this system is to give users a method to calculate rankings for all manner of events, even events that exist outside the spectrum of your forums. Because of this, this mod does NOT integrate with your forum user database; if it did, people who attended your event, but are not members of your forum, would be left out and it would skew the point values for events.

Product Demo:

http://www.8wayrun.com/ranking.php
http://www.thebreak.net/tekken/

Basic LITE Feature Listing:

• Fully integrated into the product manager with built in plugins.
• Fully phrased and built on templates for easy reskinning and styling.
• Fully administratable and a myriad of settings for personalization.
• Submission form for users to submit their tournaments for addition.
• Ability to define specific point modifier values for categories.
• Ability to define tournaments to specific categories and games.
• Keeps a paginated history of past tournaments and their values.
• Each event has full listings of attendance and earned player scores.
• Ability to upload images for each event, such as bracketted results.
• Keeps a paginated list of all players, their scores and their ranks.
• Each player has a full listing of attendance history and scores.
• Ability to link a player on the ladder to their vbulletin profile.

Advanced PRO Feature Listing:

• Ability to parse data instantly and directly from TIO files.
• Ability to automatically generate brackets based on TIO files.
• Ability to parse data instantly and directly from Forum Tournaments & Ladders.
• Ability to automatically generate brackets based on Forum Tournaments & Ladders.
• Ability to embed brackets directly into posts with [bracket]ID[/bracket]

Installation Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. CHMOD /ranking/events and /ranking/games to 777.
3. Import the product "product-rankingladder.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. OPTIONAL: Import the VBAdvanced RankLad module into your VBAdvanced Pages.

Upgrade Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. Take note of the information stored in Ranking Award Values of Ranking Ladder Settings.
3. Import the product "product-rankingladder.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. Re-establish your previous Ranking Award Values settings in Ranking Ladder Settings.

NOTES:

• Before you can add any event listings, you must have both a category, and a game to assign it to.
• Before you can add any scores for an event, each player in your event must have a Ladder-ID (INT).
• When adding scores to an event, you need to input their earned rank (INT), and their Ladder-ID (INT).
• If you are using the PRO version, you should put a player's Ladder-ID as their "Name" field in TIO. Then use the "Edit Existing Event" link and use the "Upload Scores from TIO" form. If you properly added all of your player's Ladder-IDs in your TIO file, the script will automatically add all scores to the event with a single click.
• If you are using the PRO version, you can automatically generate bracketted results based on the event.
• You should only need to use the "Rebuild All Events" function if your change the modifier values for your categories or awards; then you will need to rebuild all events to recalculate the scores for events.
• In order to recalculate scores for player, you will need to run the "Rebuild All Players" function; I do it once a week.
• Immediately after running "Rebuild All Players", you should also run "Rebuild All Rankings" to calculate ladder positions.

Don't forget to click INSTALL!

For more information on how to purchase the PRO version, feel free to send me a message.

[Covert-OPs_]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

This mod is a RANKING SYSTEM... not a mod for the RUNNING of tournaments. This mod is used to calculate the RESULTS of a tournament that has already been done. Using the pro version, you can parse the results of a tournament run using the Forum Tournament & Ladders mod.

Ok but what is the support for a round robin? As far as I know the current Tournament & Ladder mod does not have a round robin setup. Unless I have the wrong mod.

[Jaxel]

EWGF... you will like this new feature coming in the next version (will be available in the FREE version)

http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php?do=...s&videoid=1045

[EWGF]

ZOMG, ajax + character statistics! =D

[Jaxel]

Yet another new feature... http://www.8wayrun.com/ranking.php?do=players&gid=1

GAME BASED RANKINGS!

Now, in addition to the global rankings that are already in, you can now have different rankings based on the GAMES (http://www.8wayrun.com/ranking.php?do=games) in your ladder.

[Jaxel]

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Version 2.0.0
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• Added the ability to put the sidebar on the left or the right.
• Added a vbAdvanced Events module that automatically parses for events.
• Added a moderation permission setting for AJAX editing and scripting.
• Added a system so players can easily edit their character usage settings.
  
  • VIDEO: http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php?do=...s&videoid=1045
    
  • Each game in your ladder must have a folder in /usage/ with it's TAG
    
  • Characters are validated by the existance of images in /usage/TAG/
    
  • For example, I have included several character usage images.
    
  • This feature must be turned on in your admin control panel first!
    
• Adding a new event will now return to the edit page of that specific event.
• Slightly changed the editing of events so that it returns to the edit page.
• The top 1/3 of unranked players will now earn double points for ranking.
• Changed the way scores are rebuilt to include a new multi-game ladder system.
• There are now multiple ladders, as well as the previous GLOBAL LADDER.
  
  • Each game will get it's own ladder, which must be updated seperately.
    
• GAME and CATEGORY pages are now gone and have merged into EVENTS listings.
• Many template names have been changed to fit this new system. Please revert!
• Redid the Event Submission page to be easier to read and less oppressive.
• BUG FIX: Fixed erroneous hypertext errors in vbAdvanced Players module.
• FILE EDITS SINCE 1.8.0: (make sure you upload these new versions!)
  
  • vbacmps_ranklad.xml
    
  • vbacmps_rankvnt.xml
    
  • upload/includes/xml/bitfield_rankingladder.xml
    
  • upload/ranking/usage/**
    
  • upload/ranking/functions_rank.php
    
  • upload/ranking/instantedit.js
    
  • upload/ranking.php
    
  • upload/rankingAJAX.php
    
• TEMPLATE EDITS SINCE 1.8.0: (make sure you revert these templates!)
  
  • rankings_categories_add
    
  • rankings_categories_bit
    
  • rankings_categories_edit
    
  • rankings_event
    
  • rankings_event_bit
    
  • rankings_events
    
  • rankings_events_add
    
  • rankings_events_bit
    
  • rankings_games_add
    
  • rankings_games_bit
    
  • rankings_games_edit
    
  • rankings_player
    
  • rankings_player_bit
    
  • rankings_players
    
  • rankings_players_add
    
  • rankings_players_bit
    
  • rankings_postbit
    
  • rankings_profile
    
  • rankings_scores_merge
    
  • rankings_SHELL
    
  • rankings_SHELL_bit
    
  • rankings_SHELL_nav
    
  • rankings_submit
    

[Adem GEN?]

Hello,
Error Unistalling

Altering Table user ...vB_Database_Alter: fetch_table_info() has not been called successfully.

I know how to uninstall this product?

[cowcowcow]

This looks so good, its a pity i missed it all these years!

Is it still working? Both demo sites are down. Also, how can i get the pro version?