| Mike Nolan 2004-12-27, 5:45 pm |
| "irvin" <noone@none.com> writes:
quote:
>1. Ratings and rating calculation
quote:
>There's no reason why the system can't be automated in such way that
>registered tournament directors can be provided with a login and password
>combination for a web page where they can upload tournament reports as a
>delimited (comma, tab, etc.) text file. Then, the appropiate staff person
>can just look at the pending submissions and click a single button to
>perform all rating updates along with the logging of every tournament's
>details.
Check out the USCF's TD/Affiliate Support Area, this is not only
possible, it is already happening, along with processing memberships in
a matter of minutes. However, at this time the only file format that
is supported is to upload the three .DBF files that WinTD and Swis-Sys
prepare for diskette submission, along with a crosstable text file.
TDs can also enter events online.
Will it eventually support other upload formats? That's certainly
possible, though there's kind of a chicken-and-egg issue with regards
to file formats. Right now WinTD and Swis-Sys can prepare the .DBF
files, so that's why that format was the first one implemented.
Does anyone have a program capable of creating comma (CSV) or tab-delimited
rating report files yet, or one that could be readily adapted to do so?
If so, I'd like to hear from the developer and set up a test suite, as
it shouldn't take a lot of programming to support another upload format.
But until someone can create test data, there's little reason to do that
programming.
I agree with you that for the most part it should be possible to rate
events with little or no staff intervention.
For more details, go to https://secure.uschess.org/TD_Affil
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Mike Nolan
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