Whoops, posted in the duplicate thread.
Here's what I put:
LoboStele wrote:
Well, you're going to need a laptop that can run Excel, and there's still a slight chance that I may not be there for GenCon at all. So, may have to have a cell phone at the ready to call me if there's problems.
But right now.....I've only got the program working for up to 6 rounds and 64 players. I've not had the time to work on the 7 round/128 player version. And there are almost certainly going to be some errors with the pairings. I'll do what I can to work on between now and then, but I'm honestly not sure if I can guarantee anything.
You may have to fall back on the plan of just using the DCI software to do the pairings, and then keep a separate list with 3/2 scores. I really hate to do that though, so I'll see what I can work with in the next 3 weeks.
Work and home life have just been an absolute wreck lately. I've been lucky to get 6 hours of sleep each night, and typically running less than 4 hours of sleep on the weekends due to helping out with various things. Sort of sucks because most of it isn't because I'm doing 'fun' stuff for myself. I mean, yeah, I enjoy what I'm doing most of the time, but it's usually helping other people (mainly my wife) with their projects. Sorry to vent a bit, but just wanted to let you guys know that life has been legitimately crazy, and I'm not just blowing you off on this or anything like that.
Will see what I can whip up...Well, you're going to need a laptop that can run Excel, and there's still a slight chance that I may not be there for GenCon at all. So, may have to have a cell phone at the ready to call me if there's problems.
But right now.....I've only got the program working for up to 6 rounds and 64 players. I've not had the time to work on the 7 round/128 player version. And there are almost certainly going to be some errors with the pairings. I'll do what I can to work on between now and then, but I'm honestly not sure if I can guarantee anything.
You may have to fall back on the plan of just using the DCI software to do the pairings, and then keep a separate list with 3/2 scores. I really hate to do that though, so I'll see what I can work with in the next 3 weeks.
Work and home life have just been an absolute wreck lately. I've been lucky to get 6 hours of sleep each night, and typically running less than 4 hours of sleep on the weekends due to helping out with various things. Sort of sucks because most of it isn't because I'm doing 'fun' stuff for myself. I mean, yeah, I enjoy what I'm doing most of the time, but it's usually helping other people (mainly my wife) with their projects. Sorry to vent a bit, but just wanted to let you guys know that life has been legitimately crazy, and I'm not just blowing you off on this or anything like that.
Will see what I can whip up...
In addition, the programming IS quite complicated, but I've had a couple ideas floating around my head to work on the issue, just haven't had a chance to actually program it in yet. We'll see if I can pull it off. What typically happens, is that you get a bunch of people that all have the exact same record, I mean exactly the same Points, Wins, %, Head-to-head, and OMW%. It happens a lot. Once those 5 tie-breakers have been sorted by the program, then it's totally random as to who plays who. I have
some control built into it to try and get past those issues, but it doesn't work 100% of the time still at that point. Actually, one of the cool things you can do at that point, is to just hit the 'Perform Pairings' button for that round again. Because there is a random factor involved, sometimes, it might fix it if you click the button a couple times more.
I always want to quickly code in something that will highlight cells where you have players who have a re-match, or when the same person gets paired against more than 1 opponent (as I've seen that one too).
Anyways....we'll see what I can pull off before then.
FYI...if I do make it to GenCon, I will NOT be able to use my laptop for that weekend, as it's technically my work laptop. So someone else will need to supply a laptop with Excel, and PLEASE have tested the Excel file out before we get there.
(I will likely bring my laptop with me for the weekend if I can, just I won't be able to use it for running the tournaments.)