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 By specifying a time period, the system will automatically weed out stale rankings and remove players who are no longer active.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.

[Jaxel]

Are you sure its infinite looping? Its supposed to refresh a few times as it calculates.

[EWGF]

I'm sure about it, after 15 minutes it was still refreshing the page while the text "All events have been successfully rebuilt" was displayed

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

This system works with ANY tournament structure for any type of event; doesn't have to be games. Doesn't even have to be single/double elimination; you can do round robin or swiss pairings as well. This system gives scores based on the OUTCOME of an event, not what happens during the event.

Please click the "Mark as Installed" link.

GREAT to hear! Downloaded only but marking as installed since I'll be using this for something else but need time to tweak it

Also it seems your busy but when you have a free moment can you look into my post regarding your video directory? Found here --> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...200819&page=42 becuase that could save me some frustration

Thanks for these great mods imo... I love em'

S-MAN

[Jaxel]

EWGF... try the attached file... if it works for you, I'll include it in today's build.

Superman... I answered that question in a previous post, I'm not answering it again.

[EWGF]

Yes sir, it worked!

[EWGF]

If you have added a player which isn't registered and his ranking account is reasonably filled. If that person later decides to register on the forum, it's just a matter of editing the ranking account by adding his vB-id number?

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by EWGF

If you have added a player which isn't registered and his ranking account is reasonably filled. If that person later decides to register on the forum, it's just a matter of editing the ranking account by adding his vB-id number?

Yep. I made sure you could do that.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

EWGF... try the attached file... if it works for you, I'll include it in today's build.

Superman... I answered that question in a previous post, I'm not answering it again.

Sorry bud, simply did not see the info and I did read through the posts - 41+ pages so forgive the overlook but I did not see it... little more tact next time though, a link eh or a simple reply.. anything other than just ignoring the questions presented leaving us to wonder *sigh, now let's go read all the posts again for another 30 mins to an hour when like I said, you could have saved some time as you know this whereas I do not.

[EWGF]

I noticed tournaments played in 2007 can't be added. Why's that?

It would give people a more complete view of one's accomplishments. Especially for oldskool players who rarely play anymore.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by EWGF

I noticed tournaments played in 2007 can't be added. Why's that?

It would give people a more complete view of one's accomplishments. Especially for oldskool players who rarely play anymore.

You can edit the template and add 2007 in if you want, but I didn't see the point

The default settings are that a player is ranked by their best 10 scores in the course of 12 months. 2007 is outside that spectrum; so I didn't see the need to include it.