Teams with Player Matches Config

Hi Roch – thank you for your reply. Sorry for confusion on how to get in touch, I basically was saying that I am willing to buy the premium license if I can confirm that I can get in touch with someone with information here on whether or not this plugin will work.

Yes the current site this organization is using is here, but it is very temperamental and does not always load well (I’m trying to help them get situated with something new that works!). https://www.tetrisgauntlet.com/

Here are some screens of what the current site shows:

Match detail: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/match_detail_2.png
Game detail: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/game_detail_2.png
Match list: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/matches.png
Player standings: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/player_standings.png
Player details: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/player_details.png
Team standings: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/team_standings.png
Team details: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/team_page.png

To answer your questions and clarify:

Each individual event results in one of the teams “winning” the individual event. So for example, in Match Detail above, Team One received 2 points because the players on that team collectively won two sets. Team Two won 2 sets, and also won the tiebreak set. Therefore Team 2 “Won” this individual event. (There is also some kind of wagering functionality that can happen for the last set for a chance for the player to win two points in exchange for going down a game, but I’ll ignore that for now).

Game detail shows what happens in a set for the two players. In the example, Player 1 won games 1, 2 and 5 with a higher score. (The transition value is an ancillary value that is used for statistics only and not always provided).

Match list shows a list of all recent matches.

Player standings shows a list for individual players, indicating their records for sets, individual games, and sudden death encounters.

Player details shows more stats for the player. I’m okay if we can’t fully get all of this info, but average score is a big one.

Team standings shows overall team league standings for the season.

Team details shows team statistics based on the player performance.

The manual work I’m referring to is shown here: https://jhund-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sportspress_event_example.png

So the person entering the match has to basically map out Games 1-5 (there can be up to 5 games since it’s a BO5) and then manually enter whether or not it is a Win for that player. Same situation for sudden death (half a point for these).

I am unsure how adding a loss for a player would resolve an issue for averaging individual scores. The issue is just that there is no way to know if all 5 games are played. If that was known, I assume I can just add Games 1-5 and divide by 5. Maybe I will need to write a custom function for this.

For the visual issue, I am a developer. But before I go deep into figuring out if I can visually stitch together a better view to show individual head to head games, I wanted to make sure I am not missing a better structure for the data.

I appreciate the help and sorry for all of the information. I am happy to pay something if we can end up getting something working. Thanks.

Hi – still interested in feedback. To update you on other things I have tried….

I am exploring the idea of having every single individual game be an individual event. For example this setup….

One team vs team event placeholder to act as the “main event”.

One event per individual game. So if there are 3 sets of games with one player from each team, where each set is a best of 5, this could mean anywhere between 9 and 15 individual events.

This solves the majority of the issues with accurate statistics. However, it introduces a couple of other issues for which I am curious for advice:

1) Manual entry is too tedious for this. I have explored using the Event Importer. However, it does not work for player vs. player matches (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-individual-player-vs-player-matches-bugs/). However, maybe I am fine with just importing as Team vs. Team matches?

1) This means that there is no clear way to indicate the overall main event winner. To account for this, I have added a redundant event result value called “Match Win”. This value I would imagine could be set just on those main events to indicate which team won the main event. But… this feels weird and may have some caveats? Anything better I can do for that? The main issue is that the main event does not know about which individual events are associated to it…

2) Bigger issue that I do not have a workaround for: do you have a suggestion for how I can have a *concise* summary of the individual best of 5 sets on the team vs team event page? I know that there are short codes available, but none of them present the information that would be ideal. What I would really want is something like this:

“Team 1 vs Team 2”
“Overall Outcome: 2 – 1 (2 sets won by Team 1)”
Set 1:
Player A (Team 1) vs. Player B (Team 2): 3 – 1

Set 2:
Player A2 (Team 1) vs. Player B2 (Team 2): 3 – 2

Set 3:
Player A3 (Team 1) vs. Player B3 (Team 2): 0 – 3

I can modify code if you can point me in the right direction for what I might be able to modify to get a display like this. I will also reiterate that if I can get additional guidance/support by paying I am happy to do so, but I don’t want to pay and still be stuck.

Thanks.