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Main => Help Me => Topic started by: Linker_Split on August 09, 2010, 08:25:28 PM
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hi everybody,
I'm testing a formula I've just created it's very simple, but I would like to knowe if it will return the correct results:
if(rank <= ((numberofPlayers/100)*10),((numberofPlayers/100)*10) - rank, 0)
basically i want to award the top 10% of players with points, so if 100 players, only 10 players with points, if 1200 players, only 120 players...
is it correct?
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Also, why this doesn't work?
assign("tot_pls",((numberofPlayers/100)*10))
if(rank <= tot_pls,tot_pls - rank, 0)
basically what I'm doing is assigning "tot_pls" the value of 10% of players...
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Oh I found it doesn't allow me to use the underscore _
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if(rank <= ((numberofPlayers/100)*10),((numberofPlayers/100)*10) - rank, 0)
Just an observation... why divide by 100 , just to multiply by 10, when you could just as easily divide by ten? simplify it to be the following
if(rank <= (NumberOfPlayers/10),(NumberOfPlayers/10)-rank,0)
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thank you for the answer, I must be tired it's 4 AM Lol
anyway, I managed to get this formula:
10 * [sqrt(n)/sqrt(r)] * [1+log(bc+0,25)]
but I want to give points only to the ITM players.
i sitll don't get the way :(
this formula gives ALL players some points...
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Ok guys. I think I got it sorted out:
assign("pointsPP",(10 * [sqrt(n)/sqrt(r)] * [1+log(bc+0.25)]))
assign("PlayerPaidPoints",(numberofPlayers/10))
if(rank <= PlayerPaidPoints, pointsPP)
this way it will assign the top 10% of players points :)
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Looks like you worked it out, but just let me point out one thing: don't use brackets []. Although in written math formulas they are the same as parentheses (), they are different in most programming languages, and they are different in Tournament Director formulas. It's basically a quirk of the language that is allowing it to work properly in your formula. Change the [] to () to save yourself headaches in the future if you run across a formula where it doesn't work like you think it should.