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Re: Speed Brackets

• nopro17 17,459 Posts

  Thu, Jun 19 2014 10:57 AM

  First of all, let me say that I really like the concept of speed brackets.  But ... there is a major problem with the implementation of them.

  I intentionally waited to sign up for the Tour Legend Speed Bracket until 15 slots had been filled.  This put me in control of when the tournament was going to start.

  Here are the results:

  
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  Clearly, this is ridiculous.  I "won" because nobody else was around to play the 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds.  This is the second time that I have "won" with no competition for 3 rounds.

  It would become even more ridiculous if this were a premium tournament.

  One suggestion for speed brackets would be to "schedule" them to start at fixed times throughout the day.  For example, start them 00:00, 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 GMT.  If a bracket has not been filled at the scheduled start time, cancel it and start over.  The intention is to have 16 people available at the start time.  With people scattered around the world, somebody is invariably sleeping or working or not at their computer when the bracket starts.

  As I said, speed brackets are a good idea but you really need to rethink the way they work.

• 2,840 Posts

  Thu, Jun 19 2014 11:15 AM

  We are looking at ways ti improve them.  I am not sure starting at specific times would work due to the way they are set up, but it is a good idea to explore.

   

  - WGTdbloshoe

• nopro17 17,459 Posts

  Sun, Jun 22 2014 6:19 AM

  With respect to your programmers, please indulge me for a minute.  I have been doing this for 40+ years.  I think that I know a bit about logic. ;-)

  The first thing that needs to be done is to add a field for the "start time" to your bracket information table.

  There is already logic in place that checks to see if the bracket has filled yet:

  if bracket has not started AND bracket is filled
       start the bracket

  Change that logic to this:

  if bracket has not started AND current time >= start time
       if bracket is filled
            start the bracket
       else
            add 24 hours to the start time (or cancel the bracket)

  That should do the job.

  In my mind, this is an easy solution.  Obviously, I don't know exactly what your program does but I also don't know how it could be very much different from what I described.  Pass it on and see what they have to say.

  Thanks.

• WGTyphoon 597 Posts

  Sun, Jun 22 2014 9:35 AM

  nopro17:

  With respect to your programmers, please indulge me for a minute.  I have been doing this for 40+ years.  I think that I know a bit about logic. ;-)

  The first thing that needs to be done is to add a field for the "start time" to your bracket information table.

  There is already logic in place that checks to see if the bracket has filled yet:

  if bracket has not started AND bracket is filled
       start the bracket

  Change that logic to this:

  if bracket has not started AND current time >= start time
       if bracket is filled
            start the bracket
       else
            add 24 hours to the start time (or cancel the bracket)

  That should do the job.

  In my mind, this is an easy solution.  Obviously, I don't know exactly what your program does but I also don't know how it could be very much different from what I described.  Pass it on and see what they have to say.

  Thanks.

  This is an interesting idea. Thank you for posting this down.