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Messages - Corey Cooper

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: Template Gallery
« on: June 21, 2007, 11:29:39 AM »
If there's enough interest, I'll be happy to host these on the main website.

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Help Me / Re: Point system
« on: June 21, 2007, 11:28:21 AM »
"Points" is the sum of the points the player received for each tournament in which they played.
"Overall Score" is the score value calculated using the Overall Score formula defined in the Filter.

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Help Me / Re: Few questions...
« on: June 21, 2007, 11:22:28 AM »
There is no way to enter your own dates and times.

If you only recorded the top 3, then probably you should bust all other players out first, at the same time, so that they all rank 4th.

There is only 1 statistic, "Playing Time", that will be affected by the tournament lasting only a few minutes.  If you don't care about this statistic, then you should be fine.

There is no way to filter out players who did not play in enough games.  However, when creating an Overall Score you can use a formula that will in effect give the player a score of 0 if they did not play in enough games.

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Help Me / Re: Alphabetical order
« on: June 20, 2007, 03:20:40 PM »
Unfortunately, not without some serious work.  The TD uses simple string ordering, nothing fancy, to sort data.  Those characters aren't the same as their English counterparts (Á != A and É != E), and their placement in the ASCII chart is after all other English letters, therefore they probably get sorted to the end of the list.  You can see the Windows ASCII chart here (middle of the page, under IBM PC Extended ASCII Display Characters): http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.shtml

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Help Me / Re: Point system
« on: June 20, 2007, 01:01:14 PM »
Very similar to "Points for playing".

You define, in the filter, your "Score" formula and your "Overall Score" formula.

The "Score" formula is done almost exactly like "Points for playing", and when you run the Stats, it creates a score for each player in each tournament.

The "Overall Score" formula then combines the Scores for each player (for each tournament) into an Overall Score.  So, as the user manual explains, an example would be:

(1 - (r / (n + 1))) * 100

.. as the Score formula.  This creates a score for each player for each tournament.

Then:

average(scores)

.. as the Overall Score formula, would produce an overall score by averaging the scores the player achieved in each tournament in which they played.



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Help Me / Re: Point system
« on: June 20, 2007, 12:11:24 PM »
There is no "default" way points are calculated.  Awarding points to players is entirely up to you: if you want to award points, and how players earn those points.

If you have simple criteria, like players get X amount of points just for playing in a tournament, and get Y amount of points for rebuying, and Z amount of points for knocking someone out of a tournament, you can just enter those amounts into the various input fields provided for that purpose: "points for buy-in", "points received for rebuy", "points for hit".

However, if the manner in which you award points is more complicated, you can use the "Points for playing" field, which allows you to enter simple or complex formulas, based on information about the tournament and its players.

If you load the "sample.tdt" tournament provided with the software, you'll see it awards points using the "Points for playing" field, using a simple formula:

n - r + 1

.. where n stands for "number of players" and r stands for "rank".  Evaluating that formula in a tournament with 20 players for the player who got 1st place (or rank 1) gives "20".  So first place gets 20 points.  2nd place gets 19 points, all the way down to last place which receives 1 point.  The formulas can be as simple or as complex as you like.

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Looks pretty slick.  I love seeing stuff like this.

I'm curious about the right clock.  Is there a reason you didn't just use "rotation=3" to get it to rotate 270 degrees?

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available
« on: June 19, 2007, 09:19:44 AM »
So long as you don't mind submitting the files back to me as well.  I'd be happy to host user-submitted language packs on the Tournament Director website for others to use.

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: The WSOP Layout
« on: June 19, 2007, 09:18:27 AM »
Well, it certainly sounds like something I'd fudge up, but I don't see that.  Using the "Insert Token" feature, the "type" drop-down for <tdbutton> token lists "bustout", not "bustedout".  I went back through a few versions and it looks like it has always been this way.

Are you sure you're not confusing this with the <bustedout> token, which lists how many players have busted out of the tournament?

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available
« on: June 18, 2007, 09:46:37 PM »
No, there is no translation of the software at this time.  But the software *could* be translated, as the language files are all now separate from the program itself.  That allows anyone to change the text, without having to actually change the software.

However, language translation is a rather expensive undertaking - most likely well out of the scope of this software to have it professionally done.  Therefore, it is unlikely there will ever be a true translation of the software to any language, unless it is done by users who are simply interested in using it in their native language.

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: The WSOP Layout
« on: June 18, 2007, 09:37:32 PM »
Not sure what you mean about bustedout vs bustout...

The "inheritFont" attribute of the <tdbutton> token allows the button to inherit font settings (font name, size, italics, bold, etc) from the cell in which the button is placed.  There is also a "style" attribute which allows you to apply any HTML style.

For layout cells, just use the various settings of a cell Property Set to change the font appearance.  If you want to go beyond that, you'll have to learn a little bit of HTML.  But there are tons of HTML tutorials available on the internet.

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Suggestions / Re: display name of "random player"
« on: June 18, 2007, 03:20:32 PM »
Sorry about that last post - I think my use of brackets caused that weird strikethrough stuff...

Your second guess is correct.  Because the player list may change at any time during a tournament, choosing the "random player" isn't done until the moment it is necessary.  That being when a player busts out.  That player has a 1 in N chance of being chosen, where N is the number of players still "in" the tournament (including that busting-out player).

I'm not certain of the "odds" part - I was never good at statistics.  I believe it is fair and doesn't give any advantage to players who last longer, but I really can't say for sure...

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: The WSOP Layout
« on: June 18, 2007, 03:13:01 PM »
There are several ways to do this.  You can place the buttons within a <nobr></nobr> HTML tag to prevent the renderer from placing the buttons on different horizontal lines.  Load up the layout "BlackAndGreenWithButtons.tlo" and look in the "Controls" cell.  Here's part of it:
Code: [Select]
<nobr>
<tdbutton type="previousround" text="Round -" inheritFont="true">
&nbsp;
<tdbutton type="nextround" text="Round +" inheritFont="true">
&nbsp;
<tdbutton type="addplayers" text="+ Player" inheritFont="true">
</nobr>

You could also put each button in its own cell of an HTML table:
Code: [Select]
<table border=0>
<tr>
<td>
<tdbutton type="previousround" text="Round -" inheritFont="true">
</td>
<td>
<tdbutton type="nextround" text="Round +" inheritFont="true">
</td>
<td>
<tdbutton type="addplayers" text="+ Player" inheritFont="true">
</tr>
</table>

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General Discussion / Re: TD vs another software
« on: June 18, 2007, 01:53:54 PM »
Hasn't happened yet, and there are no plans to do so currently.  That is, however, subject to change at any time.

Also, if the software were to move to version 3, there is no guarantee it would incur an upgrade fee.  As the FAQ states:

An increase in major version may (or may not) incur an upgrade fee, should such a version ever become available.

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Suggestions / Re: Rebuys before the start of next round.
« on: June 18, 2007, 12:23:38 PM »
OK, I've added this - will be in the next release which will be soon since it has a rather important fix for non-player tracking mode.

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