Ranking players

[ccarpol]

Is it possible, when listing the player rankings, to give players with the same amount of points the same ranking number?

Example: Rank   Player    Points
             1        Jon       10
             2        Jim         9
             2       Tom        9
             4        Bill          8

When I try to run the stats, it shows Jim as rank #2 and Tom as rank #3 rather than showing them both as a tie at rank #2

Thanks Corey

[Corey Cooper]

Ranking describes (as far as the TD software is concerned) the order in which players bust out of a tournament.  The Stats page doesn't rank players.  So... I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

[ccarpol]

In my league, which runs for several months, the players are all ranked according to their current point totals(a collection of ALL their tournament points, not just one tournament).  The more points you have, the higher you are ranked.  When I export that stats, players that have the same number of points should receive the same ranking.  This does not occur however.  Example: If two players are tied for 25th place(same amount of points) the first of the two is ranked in 25th place and the second is ranked in 26th place.  Can this be fixed, other than manually, to make both players ranked in 25th place?  Then the next player would be ranked in 27th place(since there are two tied at 25th).  The only stats we post in my league are rank(players position according to points), name, and total points.  The more new players we get, the more tedious it becomes having to manually change the player rankings.

Thanks for your help.

[Corey Cooper]

OK, but the Stats feature does NOT RANK any players.  I assume what you are seeing is the players sorted by Points.  The column you are calling "Rank" is not a rank, it is simply the index of the player - the column header is "#", right?  The players are numbered from 1 to n for convenience - not as any type of ranking.  If that column bugs you, remove it.

By the way, players are always secondarily sorted by their name.  So when two rows would sort to the same position, the players' names are used as the sort key.  This makes the sorting deterministic.  That's why you see Jim before Tom, in your example.  If the name was NOT used as a secondary sort, you might see Tom before Jim sometimes, and other times see Jim before Tom.