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Would it be at all possible to implement something that Ash is suggesting?
I'd be available for Design & specification support if desired.
chance of building this into the client or server seems very low since it’s quite a big ask, tiers would have to be manually kept up to date too, but I see Ash’s volunteering here and I don’t know what he’s capable of. If he can do it, I guess it could be possible!
Then you have the Elo/ladder idea. Seems much more doable… but we did have a working teams ladder, it just died during a migration and it’s been too long for me to know how to work it again. But is it even worth it? again maybe Ash or someone else can take a look but just keep in mind:
The previously existing ladder first auto-added any duo that played like 10 games together in addition to having manually created teams. But there’s so many duo combinations that the standings filled up with these auto duos and custom teams had a hard time finding them to play and moving up. SoI required manual team creation to be ranked and it promptly died completely. Community was too small and couldn’t support it, there were only like 4 teams registered even with team members capped at like 4. So what would work best? I guess the auto teams worked better than just a dead league…happy to let anyone try to repair it and get it going
Factoring in elo… hmm. You could have a table that updates individual elo after every game, 1s or team. for teams it could sum up the total elo on each side and then distribute whatever is gained or lost across each team member. And then a separate teams ladder, with team standings, where the elo gained/lost is added or subtracted whole to the team score/elo. Not sure if that would make it worthwhile to put a bad player on your team or not. And still a lot of work that would need help but at least I can picture kind of how it would work.
Just keep in mind it’s a lot of work to do for three custom teams, clearly pointless really, so I think you need to auto include all duos. And I don’t know if that’s what people are interested in? If you want just custom teams I would suggest starting on myleague or just a forum thread or something to ascertain how much interest there is. Maybe you need to make it 2 player teams maximum in order to get more teams going. I think you’d want a lot of teams for it to make sense.