Boxing Scorecard

[ihsahn]

I run a Boxing forum @ boxrev.boards.net and our biggest draw is our live round by round coverage of the fights where our members will score the fights themselves to compare. The issue is that everyone loses track of their score because of the great page lengths that spring up pretty quickly. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to create a simple scoring bracket that would preferably but not needed entirely, tally the scores at the end of 12 rounds. It can be a simple template too but I'd need it to match the colours of the forum itself (Navy Blue). 



Just for a reference a scorecard would look like this...

[Wormopolis]

Is there an image there I can't see?

[P̌̓aͧś̀t̀u͒le͆o͂2̀3̃̓]

May 11, 2015 14:51:44 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

Is there an image there I can't see?

yes, I can see it on desktop. Rather large

[Wormopolis]

weird. my phone wouldnt open that image. I had to wait till I got home.

So how are you foreseeing this working? everyone sees the same score card or they just see the one they made?

[ihsahn]

May 11, 2015 22:32:39 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

weird. my phone wouldnt open that image. I had to wait till I got home.

So how are you foreseeing this working? everyone sees the same score card or they just see the one they made?

Ideally it would be great if each poster could post their own cards and just update it as the fight progresses, viewable to everyone. In similar fashion to the Tournament Brackets I suppose. Thank you sir for you're help, its appreciated! 

[Wormopolis]

Current issues I see:

Storage would have to be done in a thread key in order to keep it seperate from the posts. Because of that, there is an upper limit. That limit would be dependent on lengths of usernames.

As someone updates their card, they wouldn't be able to see anyone else's updates without doing a refresh if the page. The key data is only written to the page once. Along with that, in order to keep collision from happening, it would have to push data updates to the key instead of a full override. And because of that, if someone were to push a bunch of overwrites, it could potentially pushout someone else's scorecard.

Alternately, you could go with a super user key. Then only that person could ever write to the key, and limitations come down to storing a limited number of cards. Eventually older cards would have to be removed for newer cards to be stored. With proper settings, everyone can read rveryones cards, but you wouldn't be able to get a community average unless every participant was referenced on the page (which you could do by tagging everyone in first post - but then second page wouldn't have all names). Updates would again only be seen after a refresh.

[ihsahn]

What about if there was a limited amount of Scorecards available only to specific users, assigned by the admin? If I was able to do up to 4-5 scorecards at the same time it would be perfect, don't need a large amount but I could use this as a perk of being an active member. I will use a Super Key if I have to, what you recommended would be fine.

[Wormopolis]

honestly.. the super user key would be easier to write and implement. the thread key has the advantage I guess of having everyones scores all the time, but because it requires so many people to update the data it is lackluster.

the super user key has the advantage of no one being able to write to it except the member, but it loses that "community" quick access.

basically Im just rewriting everything I wrote above...

keys dont work the way you think they do. a thread key is available for EVERY thread. user keys are available for EVERY user. there isnt a way to have 10 of them and distribute them. they just exist. so because of that, if a key could only hold 20 score cards (Im just throwing anumber out), then when the 21st score card is created it will push the oldest one out.

[ihsahn]

I understand what you're saying but I am not sure what to say, if you don't think it's doable then that's fine but if it is doable than I don't care what key I need to use really. I am not the most fluent person when it comes to this sort of thing. I doubt we would get more then 5 people at the same time using a scorecard. Once they were done it could be deleted that's no problem.

[Wormopolis]

Im saying its doable, but I want you to understand the limitations. I didnt want you to come back later and complain that it wasnt holding unlimited data.

[ihsahn]

May 13, 2015 20:34:15 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

Im saying its doable, but I want you to understand the limitations. I didnt want you to come back later and complain that it wasnt holding unlimited data.

I am just appreciative that you'll do this for us, we will work within it's limitations, thanks again. 

[Wormopolis]

Another question: Will each thread have the name of the fighters in it and always in the same format? like "Floyd Mayweather vs. Mike Tyson"? because that will shorten the amount that needs to be saved in the key considerably.

[ihsahn]

Yes they will, or in most cases it will look like this... "Mayweather vs Tyson RbR" the RbR simply means Round by Round.

[ihsahn]

I am stepping away from the Boxing forum that this plugin will be added to but theirishassassin will be taking over and so you can work with him from here on out on getting this off the ground. Thank you very much for your help, its appreciated. 

[emperortohoku]

I am the former Ihsahn, I transferred ownership of my previous forum to another person as mentioned above. I am still highly interested in this plugin for my forum and really appreciate your help.