Weekly Map Scorer Program

[DethbyIT]

Just posting to bump this up for new players.
dbit

[mopa42]

It's been a while since I checked in on the tournaments. Looks like there's another bug I can fix.

SC - I'm not sure why, but this one is not registering when I try to do an 'Import' with the Scorer. Just thought you'd like to know.
dbit

It's because 'February' is spelled out instead of using '2' and hyphens. But you can copy the table (from 'The Shining' up to 'Low') and paste on the missions table in the tool; this will work.

Sometimes the closing dates don't get accepted unless they are in the right format. Currently, the program expects MM-DD-YYYY format only (including the dashes). Well, we've had a couple tournaments use the European format DD-MM-YYYY, which my program misparsed, and some where the month name was spelled out to avoid ambiguity, which it didn't allow at all.
I'm going to work on an update for better (more flexible) date parsing. Should have it out in a day or two.

While I'm doing this, anyone have any other features they want added?

[Lord_Farin]

I have noticed some issues where a player wouldn't get an asterisk on the scores list, despite only completing 3 or 4 maps; mainly when there weren't many contestants (like, when this person was the only one with that much times posted)

[mopa42]

I've updated the program. Highlights of v0.4:

• Correctly parses the tournament closing date if the month is spelled out. Tournaments are now in order!
  
• Better conversion from frames to seconds. The program rounds the same way the game rounds.
  (note that internally frames are still used, so rankings will be accurate even with rounding)
• The high score table now includes the time retrieved (in the forum time).
• I removed the lib folder, making the download a quarter of the size.
• The check for completing all maps works even when tournament has few players.

Download it on the first post. (I've removed v0.3, let me know if anyone needs it for anything).

[Amram]

found two little quirks.

Tournament Results

Rank

Player

Total Score

* Did not finish all maps.

Scores recoded at 2012-03-20 13:04:28 forum time.

Scores recoded

recorded?

the current tourny I started has a map name it doesn't much like.  importing the tourny works ok, except a map name screws up pretty good.

Eureka!  I've got it.

becomes

Eureka!  I've got it.


It seems it doesn't like double spaces, which used to be the the norm when ending one sentence, even if its just a single word.


I'll know if its importing well or not soon as we have a score for that map for it to import.

[mopa42]

Good catch. I'm working on a fix for those issues.
Edit: looks like it is due to HTML requiring non-breaking spaces ( ) if there is more than one space between words.

[xoft]

Two spaces being a norm??? Can you provide a source for that? I can't believe that.

[Amram]

Two spaces being a norm??? Can you provide a source for that? I can't believe that.

Its how I recall being taught in english class.  the space between words written or types was expected, and marked against if not, to be shorter than that which ends your sentences.  Its something i've never really looked back on, but I can't seem to find a good example of it now.  it does seem rare to find a webpage with sentences ended with a double space now that i actually look.

Looking now I can find plenty of examples of people on both sides calling the other wrong, but nothing i would call 'definitive'.

I can however find this:  http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?page_id=1325

I know that many peo­ple were taught to put two spaces between sen­tences. I was too. But these days, using two spaces is an obso­lete habit. The prac­tice was passed down from the type­writer era.

Seems im just getting old.........


So, I will meet you in the middle.  I won't retract the 'norm' citation, but I will insert 'used to be the '.  Growing old sucks, you were taught, swear left right and center its correct, and find it now is actually wrong, lol.

I do still think the scorer should behave with it as it's evident it will occasionally encounter it.  I doubt this will be the last time it encounters doubled spaces.

[Lord_Farin]

Two spaces being a norm??? Can you provide a source for that? I can't believe that.

It appears to be a (formal) standard in English writing. The language LaTeX for (among others) production of mathematical text has it as a standard. I know this, because the same two spaces is erroneous in Dutch, and has to be manually put into the LaTeX parser by the command \frenchspacing. Now I'm quite sure that LaTeX would not put an erroneous condition into their parser as a standard. Hopefully, this provides some justification. But maybe this discussion needs to be taken to the 'random section'.

[xoft]

Thank you for the explanation. I'm from Czech Republic and I've never seen such a thing even mentioned, so I guess it's some "western" weirdness, same as inches and feet instead of cm ;)

[mopa42]

I added 0.1 to the version number of the program so now things are 25% better ;)

Highlights of the latest release, v0.5:

• Now imports "Eureka!  I've got it." correctly by converting any   non-breaking spaces into normal spaces.
• New tournament table export options (thanks to past tournament creators):
  Include Header - add the standard links before the table, like so:
  
  Spoiler

  INTRO GOES HERE
  
  A few useful links:
  All Tournaments
  Code Map Scoreboard
  Tournament Score Tool
  
  Theme:
  THEME GOES HERE
  
  
  
     
     
     
     
     
     

  Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:
  One	Large	High
  Two	Medium	Medium
  Three	Medium	High
  Four	Large	Medium
  Five	Small	High

  [close]
  Extended Table - add Gravity, Build, and Experimentals map info columns to the table:
  
  Spoiler

  
  
     
     
     
     
     
     

  Map Name:	Size:	Complexity:	Gravity:	Build:	Exp:
  One	Large	High	DIRECTION	DIRECTION	YES/NO
  Two	Medium	Medium	DIRECTION	DIRECTION	YES/NO
  Three	Medium	High	DIRECTION	DIRECTION	YES/NO
  Four	Large	Medium	DIRECTION	DIRECTION	YES/NO
  Five	Small	High	DIRECTION	DIRECTION	YES/NO

  [close]
• Rule 6 reminders: if you enter maps with repeated size/complexity combinations, the program will highlight the offending maps. It only warns - you can still enter whatever maps you want.

Download the program on the first post. (I've removed v0.4, let me know if anyone needs it for anything).

[Amram]

I added 0.1 to the version number of the program so now things are 25% better ;)
Rule 6 reminders: if you enter maps with repeated size/complexity combinations, the program will highlight the offending maps. It only warns - you can still enter whatever maps you want.

perfect, a safety net to prevent me from being retarded again, lol.

[Helper]

@mopa42 -
Running Tournament Scorer V.5 on Windows 7, SP1.

Attempting to Import current game and getting Java warning:
"Something went wrong!"
"java.lang.NullPointerException"

MS released some patches/updates last night and I'm not sure if that is the cause.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Thank you.

[J]

Fill in the table yourself (map names, height, complexity, just do it yourself and you don't need to import tables)

[thepenguin]

Running Tournament Scorer V.5 on Windows XP, SP3.
I seem to get NullPointerexception whenever I try to connect to the internet

not before, but now it seems to happen with v3 and v2 as well