Need someone to find new tournament types
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I'm looking for someone to find new types of tournaments to add to the base SQL scripts. For instance, I have the ACC tournament, but I'd like to see brackets for all of the other conference tournaments as well. I'm not a sports nut, so this isn't something I'm well suited for and would miss a lot of conferences. If even several people could submit brackets structures for conferences they are fans of, that would get us started.
Thanks,
Avery
Hi! Since you asked, I'd be quite excited to get scripts for a tennis grand slam tournament. It's essentially just a double NCAA tournament with one more round (128 draw rather than 64). The next grand slam isn't until the end of January so this is pretty low priority. I'm using the NCAA tournament to run an office pool for Master's series events (which are essentially 64 draws...some players get buys so I just created a bunch of players named 'buy. pick the other guy. 1' which seems to work fine for my purposes).
I looked at the scripts for creating the NCAA tournament and can likely figure it out, but you did ask for ideas for more tournaments :)
If you need more info on the draw let me know...or if you no longer want ideas and I should do this myself that would be cool to know to.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Jeremy,
If you have a website for the tournaments you want to do, which have a visual layout of the brackets, and can post them here, then that would do nicely. Both of these formats should be pretty easy. You can code the draws right into the tournament type structure and it works just fine.
Putting these scripts together doesn't take long. It typically just takes me about half an hour for new one to remember what I'm doing, get it worked out and test it pretty good. I would welcome it if you'd like to do that and post them. But if you don't feel like doing it, I'll try to find some time for it.
How are your tournaments going? What is the one feature you most need?
-Avery
Avery,
Thanks for your reply. I haven't had a chance to look at the sql scripts again, but hopefully will soon. In case you get motivated before I do I've included a link to the draw sheet for last year's Australian Open. It's a two page pdf (128 players).
http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2006/580/MDS.pdf
We used Bracket Tracker for an office pool for a tennis tournament a few weeks back to test it out (in a 64 draw tournament so we used the NCAA format). We had 6 people participating and everyone was able to create accounts, fill out a draw and (once I added them to the group) attach their draw to the group. I assigned one other person as a tournament admin and we shared the responsibility of updating. Everyone loved that they could see how they were doing throughout the week.
Overall it worked great and was a lot less work than doing it all by hand! Thanks so much for this application.
You asked for the one feature I most need...I guess a button that locks the tournament. From previous forum posts, I saw that you recommended choosing a winner for one match to keep people from being able to make changes. Alternatively, an option to have a time when no changes could be made would be great...for instance, at Noon on Monday no further changes could be made...
Jeremy
Thank you for that feedback.
Remember that you don't have to manually add people to the group if you use the Invitation URL feature.
I have upped the priority of [ 1455092 ] Interface to mark a tournament started or close a pool.
I don't expect to spend a lot of time on this software until closer to March madness, though I may find some time over the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
Thanks,
Avery
Thanks for the link to the brackets. However, I'm having trouble figuring out how the seeds work. I'm not seeing anything here that makes it clear what seed plays which other seed. If I had that, then I could put it all together correctly.
I've created a feature request to track this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1598892&group_id=133182&atid=727797
-Avery
Hey Avery,
I'm more than happy to be a guinea pig if you still want to do this! I've been looking to do something like this for a long time, and as my un denotes, I know a thing or two about tennis. :^)
My site is currently in limbo, but I'm set up on HostGator. Can we get Tomcat running there? I'm unsure.
Anyway, pro tennis tourneys run in a multitude of configurations: 16, 32, 48, 56, 64, 96, and 128 (IIRC, I may have missed 1). I don't know how this complicates things for you, since it would be optimal to be able to easily choose the draw size during the initial set-up. Another feature that would be huge would be the ability to run two draws at the same time (for ex, women and men's singles).
Let me know your thoughts and MTIA,
lynn
Lynn,
If you are willing to work on it, I'd be happy to have them.
Some thoughts:
* The tennis tournaments I've seen don't have straight forward seeding. Which seed gets on which game doesn't appear to be consistent from tournament to tournament of the same type. Right now the software assumes they are. Tennis seems to be a seed relates to an individual, not to a place within the tournament. This is a challenge that may require some code and db changes to accommodate unless a workaround is found.
* I've been slowly working on an interface by which you can dynamically define your own tournament types. There is a LOT of work to do here and I'm not very actively working on it right now. It is really the last major thing I'd like before I call it v1.0.
* Run each draw as a separate tournament. You can run as many tournaments at once as you like with bracket-tracker. You would create two different leagues (one for men, one for women) as a convenience for setting up the tournaments.
-Avery
Sounds great! I just sent you a PM so we don't need to fill the forum with unnecessary convo. Thanks!
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