New League Scoring System in BETA Stage

[Scaredgirl]

Go to http://elementscommunity.org/forum/wiki/ (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/wiki/)

Click "League" in the main navigation.

Here you see the League rankings and match reports (it's still missing a lot of players).

Go back to first page.

Log in using "League" and "123456".

Click "Dashboard" on the top-right.

Click "League" on the left.

Choose "Elements the League".

You can now make changes to league rankings
 - you can change preferences
 - you can add a new season
 - you can add new teams (players)
 - you can add new matches
 - you can add match statistics

Add a new match and choose players "John Doe" and "Jane Doe"

Add a score and click "Update Results".

Go back to League page in Wiki and you will see that the score you just punched in has been updated to the database.

Now this system is still in beta and it's far from perfect but I would say it's much better and faster than the current system that uses a middle man who updates the rankings.

Biggest problem right now is that you cannot reset win-loss ratio. If you make a mistake when you update the database, you cannot fix it, so be careful. Only way to fix incorrect win-loss ratio is to delete the team (player) and type in the results again.

Feel free to test this out and tell me what you think. You can add you own name to the list (with picture), fight someone else one the list, and then go update the score.

Like I said this is just a beta. We will go LIVE sometime on January 2010.

[Cisco]

Well it looks pretty good. The obvious is of course the problem of abuse since all participents have the ability to practicaly edit the leugue to no end. Some suggestions is signing up should of course be via your username and the link league should directly link you to the W-L colum. Correct me if this was your intent from the beginning since there is a lot of work  yet to do on the wiki. Me and Dragoon should be able to edit everything as is right now. Of course the problem with win loss ratio needs to be corrected that we can at least edit that.We also need to be able to ban players from the league who just come to mess things up and they should not be able to edit add anything afterwords. League Players should only be able to edit there profile, add statisics and add the played games . Whene we start the tourney We would need to add extra points, though that is easily done by doubling a win (makin two wins out of it).

[Scaredgirl]

Well it looks pretty good. The obvious is of course the problem of abuse since all participents have the ability to practicaly edit the leugue to no end. Some suggestions is signing up should of course be via your username and the link league should directly link you to the W-L colum. Correct me if this was your intent from the beginning since there is a lot of work  yet to do on the wiki. Me and Dragoon should be able to edit everything as is right now. Of course the problem with win loss ratio needs to be corrected that we can at least edit that.We also need to be able to ban players from the league who just come to mess things up and they should not be able to edit add anything afterwords. League Players should only be able to edit there profile, add statisics and add the played games . Whene we start the tourney We would need to add extra points, though that is easily done by doubling a win (makin two wins out of it).

To prevent abuse, I suggest we give editing rights to only people who have been with this community for a while. And if 2 newbies fight each other and none of them have rights to edit, they just contact someone who does. It's not a big deal because that's what you've been doing so far with ALL matches.

Anyone who makes changes to the scoring leaves a record. So if a person decides to do some creative editing, I will see who that person was and I will ban him from both wiki and forums.

Solution for win-loss ratio thing is to not make mistakes. If you punch in the right scores, there is no problem. If mistakes occur, I am probably the only one who can fix them. You can fix the scoring, so rankings will be correct, only the win-loss ration will be wrong.

I have made 2 different roles:
1. League Participant
2. League Organizer

Participant can only insert the score in matches and update results, while Organizer can do everything. So couple of Organizers and rest and Participants. Any other customizing things are not going to happen. You see this league thing is a premade plugin for Wordpress and it's very unlikely that I'm going to spend any time recoding it because of a small operation like the Elements PvP League. Maybe if there was like 50+ players it would make sense but right now there's not even close to that.

While this system is not perfect, it's much better than the current one. Once you get the hang of it, I'm sure everything will run smoothly.

[Cisco]

I think that answeres the questions. It looks good to me and the league will grow esp with the system like this. But linking directley to the main Elements league page should be done.