My Online Tournaments enhancements

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6th June 2008, 02:55pm
#1
by NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 859

Some possible enhancements:

1. Have a graphic to indicate which tourneys are multi-round (like invitational and thematic).
2. Add a column for "Total games left in this tournament". For multi-round tournaments, this would be total games left for the current round.
3. Add a column for "Total games for me left in this tournament". Similarly, for multi-round tourneys, this would be total games left for me for the current round.


6th June 2008, 03:53pm
#2
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 6474

thanks for making suggestions!! 

1. so, i think all tournaments are multi-round as long as there are more players than there are max players per group... i guess we could icon that...

2. i think we have this... look here: http://www.chess.com/tournament/1st-chesscom-quick-knockouts-1001-1200 - it shows 33 remanining games.

3. you should be able to see this, as the tournament homepage shows you the pairings and how many games are in progress.

maybe i am missing something? 

 


6th June 2008, 04:20pm
#3
by broze
Bath England
Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 195

Proceed to the following round when all games can have no effect on the pairings/groups in the next round.


6th June 2008, 04:56pm
#4
by NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 859

Erik, I am talking about the "My Online Tournaments" page, which lists all of the tournaments you are entered into in summary. For #2 and #3, I agree that the information is already there, but you have to click into each tournament to retrieve it - I'm wondering if it might be easy to put it in the summary page.

Does this make any sense at all?


6th June 2008, 06:54pm
#5
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 6474
i see. i'll think about it. i'm not sure we have column space for it :( how would you fit it in?
6th June 2008, 07:09pm
#6
by NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 859
Can you combine it into the "% done" column? It is all related. 90% done, 1 game left for me, 9 games left total.
So instead of "% done" column with 90 value,
rename the column to "remaining" and have the value be "90% / 1 / 9"

Or have your usability people come up with something better. :-)

6th June 2008, 08:58pm
#7
by PerfectGent
St Andrews Scotland
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 862

good idea if possible to implement.

saves having to look at lots of tournament pages to see what you have left. 


7th June 2008, 09:09am
#8
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 6474

our usability people = me :)

noted! 


7th June 2008, 09:32am
#9
by Baseballfan
Durham, North Carolina United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1028
FWIW, I am also in favor of this. I think Ozzie's idea will work, unless there are some technical difficulties that I am unaware of.
9th June 2008, 04:32pm
#10
by NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 859
Erik, if you do implement this, there is the key difference between "How many games are going on for me right now in this tournament" compared with "How many games are there left for me in this tournament" (Only is a difference when the games are not concurrent).
9th June 2008, 04:41pm
#11
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 6474
which is more important?
9th June 2008, 04:56pm
#12
by NM ozzie_c_cobblepot
United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 859
I'm thinking "current games for me in current round". What I'm basically trying to answer is "can I enter another tournament" by first asking "how many tournament games do I have going on right now". Also, for non-concurrent tourneys, the next game starts right away, so it's not like the "current games for me in current round" variable ever goes up.
Of course in multi-round tourneys, all bets are off.

10th June 2008, 11:39am
#13
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 6474
ok. thank you! we'll work on this stuff.
 

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