The Season Rating

A season is a set of the domain's games over which teams are given a total score. A game may stand in a season or it may not; it gets there by hand, once it has been played.

• The list of the domain's seasons — https://YOUR_DOMAIN/ratings.php
• The table of one season — https://YOUR_DOMAIN/rating.php?season=NUMBER

Seasons are created and managed by the domain admin; the author of a game can only look.

Seasons live on the add_rating.php page: there is the list of the ones already made, the “Name of the new season…“ field and the “Add a Season” button.

The button fires on the second press: after the first one it renames itself to “100% Add a Season” for three seconds. That is how every irreversible button on this site works — it is not a fault.

A game is added from its statistics page: at the bottom, under the table, there is the row “Add the game to the season rating” — a season picker and the “Add” button.

The places are taken exactly as they stand in the table at that moment, so:

• first bring the game to an end — autopasses and stopping the game;
• hidden teams do not take a place, so take the test team and the organisers' team out beforehand — with the “Hide a team from the statistics” row in the same admin block;
• teams that took no level and earned no bonuses do not get into the rating at all.

Then the score calculation page opens:

• The formula — the field holds 1 + teams - place: the first place gets as many points as there were teams, the last one gets one. The “Recalculate” button applies the formula to the table of places.
• The formula is an ordinary expression, and instead of a calculation you can write ready-made points per place: [7, 4, 3, 1, 1, 1][place - 1].
• The points in the table can be edited by hand, on any row, after the calculation.
• “Save” writes the result into the season.

To recount a game, take the same route: add it to the same season once more — the previous result of that game is replaced.

On the season page, above the table, the admin has the “Managing the season” block of three rows:

• “Switch a game's ordinariness flag” — a game picker and the “Switch” button. A special game is always counted and does not take up a slot in the limit (see below). The flag toggles; there is no separate “make special” and “make ordinary”.
• “The number of ordinary games counted” — a number and the “Set” button.
• “Remove a game from the rating” — a game picker, the “I confirm” checkbox and the red “Remove” button. Without the tick the button silently does nothing.

When no games are left in the season, a fourth row appears — “Delete the whole season”. While there are games, the season cannot be deleted as a whole: remove them one by one first.

A team's season total is every special game plus the best N ordinary ones, where N is that same “number of ordinary games counted”.

• The remaining ordinary games are shown but not summed.
• If a team has no more than N ordinary games, there is nothing to cross out and everything is summed.
• On a tie, the earlier game is the one crossed out.
• To not limit the count at all, set a number knowingly larger than the number of games in the season: from a hundred the limit counts as lifted, and the banner about the rule disappears from the table.

What of this the player sees:

• above the table, the banner “The best ordinary games of the season are counted: N”, and it only appears when the limit actually cuts something off;
• a special game is tagged with the word “special” in its column header;
• a result that did not make the cut is struck through, with the caption “not counted” under it;
• in the “Season total” column, next to the sum, stands “Games: N” and, when not all of them counted, ”, counted: M” as well.

The “Games” menu above the table saves nothing. Its checkboxes take a game out of the view — and the scoring is immediately recomputed without it. This is a way to see “what if”, including for the admin before changing the number of counted games. Nothing in the database changes.

• Running and Closing a Game — the admin block on the statistics page, which is where a game enters a season from.
• Section for Administrators — the rest of the domain's admin screens.