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Messages - Corey Cooper

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Suggestions / Re: Player Tracking
« on: July 31, 2007, 03:37:35 PM »
Players tab -> Track Players button.

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Help Me / Re: Points under V prizes show as 0 when using a formula
« on: July 31, 2007, 03:37:05 PM »
The <pointsforplaying> token is a little tricky, because depending on what your Points for Playing formula looks like, you sometimes can't actually show the number of a points a player who busts out in a particular position will receive.  All you can give is an estimate.

If, for example, your PfP formula is: n-r+1+nh

You can't really show what a player who goes out in 3rd place will get for points, because you don't know how many other players that 3rd place finisher will bust out.  In this case, the "nh" part of the formula (number of hits) won't necessarily be accurate for a particular player until the tournament is over.

The <pointsforplaying> token works like the Points for Playing "Test All" dialog.  That is, "here's my formula, let me fill in some fake values for what any player might get, like number of hits, number of rebuys, etc, and then run it for ranks 1 through 10".  Attributes in the token, such as "prizeWinnings", are the fake values you fill in to give a more accurate representation of what a player might receive if they go out in rank N.

To be honest, I'd love to get rid of this token.  It's messy and unless you have a straightforward formula, like the default "n-r+1", it won't show you real point values that will be awarded - only estimates.

At this time, there is no unified way to show the prize amount a rank receives along with the points for playing amount.  You'll have to use <prizes> (or <prize>) and <pointsforplaying>.  It's an ugly solution, but frankly, it's an ugly problem.

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Help Me / Re: displaying total rake
« on: July 31, 2007, 03:26:33 PM »
It shouldn't run any slower.  But you can always download it and install it in a new location and try it out before upgrading your current installation.

Or you can backup your current installation, upgrade, and if it doesn't work out for you, restore the old one.

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Help Me / Re: Entry Fee / Per Player Rake
« on: July 31, 2007, 03:24:59 PM »
Not exactly.

The Per-Player Rake is taken out of the buy-in immediately, before any of it reaches the prize pool, so to speak.  Then the Fixed Rake, on the other hand, is taken from the prize pool.

If you set the Buy-in to 55, and the Per-Player Rake to 5, and the Fixed Rake to 5%, then for each player that buys-in, 50 goes to the prize pool, and 5 goes to the rake.  That 5 that goes to the rake never goes to the prize pool, so the 5% for the Fixed Rake will be from the prize pool (or the 50 from each player).

If you have 100 players, you'll have 5000 in the prize pool initially, and 500 raked from the Per Player rake.  The Fixed Rake will then calculate 5% of 5000 (the prize pool), which will be 250.  You'll end up with:

Original prize pool: 5000 (50 X 100)
Per-Player Rake: 500 (5 X 100)
Fixed Rake: 250 (5000 X .05)
Final Prize pool: 4750 (5000 - 250)

I think you've discovered a bug - but I'll need to go back and review this before deciding.  It looks like the Fixed Rake, when set to a %, would calculate the fixed rake based on the total Take In (which is 5500, or 100 X 55).  I don't think this is correct, since it would be raking the prize pool PLUS the per-player rake.  Fixed rake was always supposed to come straight from the prize pool.  It's a little difficult for me to tell what exactly is going on since I'm right in the middle of developing other features and lots of stuff is "broken" at the moment...


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Help Me / Re: Points under V prizes show as 0 when using a formula
« on: July 31, 2007, 12:39:14 PM »
<pointsforplaying>

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Suggestions / Re: Backup/Restore
« on: July 31, 2007, 11:36:02 AM »
On the to-do list.

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Help Me / Re: Vista File Location
« on: July 31, 2007, 11:35:36 AM »
Moving everything is just fine.  The software doesn't make any attempt to "remember" where it is installed.  Think of it as "portable".  When you run the program, it immediately tries to determine where it is running from, and that's where it will look for the database, preferences, etc.

If Vista just tries to be "smart" about programs putting things in "C:\Program Files" (or %PROGRAMFILES%), then what Scott did seems to me to be the best solution.  Put the software somewhere else so Vista doesn't mess with it.

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Help Me / Re: Entry Fee / Per Player Rake
« on: July 31, 2007, 11:32:16 AM »
If you are "raking", it has to be taken away from the prize pool.  I do not see how it could possibly be any other way.

Maybe it is just the way you are looking at it.  The the buy-in for your tournament is $50, and you charge a $5 fee to each player, then you should set the Buy-in to $55, and set the Per-Player Rake to be $5.  That way $50 goes into the prize money, and $5 goes towards your fee.

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Help Me / Re: Points under V prizes show as 0 when using a formula
« on: July 31, 2007, 11:29:50 AM »
The points shown as part of the <prizes> token show points that are given as part of the prize, not as part of the "Points for Playing" formula.

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Help Me / Re: displaying total rake
« on: July 31, 2007, 11:26:43 AM »
Upgrade.  <totalrake> was added in version 2.3.

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Help Me / Re: stats issue
« on: July 31, 2007, 11:24:12 AM »
How did you move your player database to the new computer?  If you manually added each player to your new computer and then moved your saved tournament files to the new computer, you probably have different players in your player database (although likely with the same names).

Load one of your saved tournaments, then go to the Players tab.  Are the player names in italics?  If so, they are not in your player database, and therefore they won't show up in Stats.  You can also press the Info button on the Stats page (after refreshing your tournaments).  Double-click on one of the tournament files that loaded AND passed the filter.  You should be able to see how many players were in the tournament, and how many of those are in your player database.

I recommend using the Backup and Restore features to move data from one computer to another.  This is outlined in the user manual in the Database section.

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Help Me / Re: Vertical Seating Chart Layout?
« on: July 26, 2007, 08:55:43 PM »
Right-click on the Seating Chart page and select Seating Chart Properties.  You can also press the "Other Properties" button on the Layout tab and select "Seating Chart Page".

On the bottom-half of the properties, on the left-hand side, Diagram Format should be selected.  Underneath it you can select the number of columns.  Enter 1.

Note that this is part of your Layout, so this setting will be saved with your layout template.

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available
« on: July 24, 2007, 10:00:01 AM »
... from the guys speaking 'Jive' in the movie Airplane.

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Suggestions / Re: Players unique identifier
« on: July 24, 2007, 09:58:35 AM »
I'll put it on the to-do list.

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Beta Testing / Re: Version 2.3 is available
« on: July 23, 2007, 10:20:58 AM »
S'mo fo butter layin' to the bone. Jackin' me up.

Cutty say he can't hang.

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