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mred
11-06-2002, 12:16 AM
http://mred.sytes.net/wbb/bracket.html

http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/smile.gif

You all may remember the excel spreadsheet I made that automatically calculated the Big XII Tournament seedings (taking into account all tiebreakers) when you gave it the results of all Big XII games. Well, I finally made a version on the web. I wrote all of the code in http://www.labview.comLabVIEW</a>, a graphical programming language that allows you to program in a tenth of the time ordainary programming (like Java or C++) would. It still took a lot of time to program and troubleshoot, as I had to recreate the sorting algorithm from scratch as well as write server and image generation programs.

Anyway, it's ugly right now, but prettying it up is the easy part anyway.

Note that if you hit submit without changing any of the games, it'll be messed up. That's because right now all South teams are 5-11 and all North teams are 11-5 by default, and the tiebreaks all go down to the coinflip, which I have not yet taken into account. Feel free to play around and add suggestions. I hope to have it looking nice and working well by the time it'll actually be relevant. http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/smile.gif
mred
11-06-2002, 01:11 AM
I've been notified that it isn't working right. Let me fiddle with it a bit...
mred
11-06-2002, 01:53 AM
Hmmm... It seems to be functional now, but I can't vouch for its accuracy. It still seems to have some bugs. I'll keep everyone updated.
mred
11-06-2002, 02:03 AM
OK. Here's the deal: my program does not yet correctly handle situations where there is a thre-way tie among teams in the same division. This isn't exactly a typical situation. I put in the games for this past season and it handled it correctly.
mred
11-06-2002, 11:29 AM
There was a bug that prevented this from working with Netscape (and presumably Mozilla; I don't know about Opera). It has been fixed.
mred
11-06-2002, 08:23 PM
I changed a few things in the program, and now it should be correct in the vast majority of situations.
DblT81
11-06-2002, 11:39 PM
mred

YOU are the man! http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/smile.gif Thanks for your effort.
mred
11-07-2002, 11:39 AM
I have confirmed that Netscape Communicator 4.7 (and presumably other versions of Communicator) have problems with this. Plain old Netscape Navigator seems to work fine, however.
swok34
11-07-2002, 12:59 PM
wow, that's really cool mred.....seems to work fine with Internet Explorer.

Thank you.
mred
11-08-2002, 01:47 AM
There was a problem with some versions of IE 5.5. I believe I have fixed it, but I'm not sure.
mred
11-08-2002, 12:28 PM
Originally posted by mred:
There was a problem with some versions of IE 5.5. I believe I have fixed it, but I'm not sure.

Yep. Fixed. http://hoopscoop.net/ubb/smile.gif