malcolmp's sandbox: League

This project developed from a set of custom modules for managing chess leagues http://sc.popmalc.org.uk/, but the features are applicable to many other sports. The idea of this project is to seperate out all the general features into a new module called League so that it might be of use to other people, and to have other modules to add features for other sports. This is a work in progress. Section to compare other league modules to be added.

Features of the league modules

League

Features common to all sports leagues.

• Allows team captains to login and update match results to which they have been given access.
• Can be used for Team Leagues, Team knockouts, Individual Swiss, Individual All play all
• League tables are updated automatically
• Administrators login to define the league structure, events, teams, clubs.
• Automatic League Fixture generation taking into account dates to avoid and teams to avoid clashes with
• Keep track of club details, team captains, and all the information to manage your league
• Users attached to an organistation are authorised to add events, clubs, teams to that organistation
• Users attached to a club are able to update or verify match results involving teams from that club

Node Types:

• Organisation (contains many events and clubs)
• Event (belong to a season, and contain many teams)
• Team (belongs to a club and event)
• Club (a member of an organisation which runs teams)
• Fixture (a match between 2 teams, or a round of an individual competition)

League Player

Maintains information about players for each organistation and groups them into named lists - for example those in a particular club, or those playing in a particular competition. Entity Types:

• League Player
• League Player List

League Chess

Specific Features for running a chess league. Adds chess match to a fixture and chess related fields to player entity

League ECF

Features specific to the English Chess Federation (ECF)

• Load up the ECF grading list from the dbase file supplied for grading
• Load up the ECF membership spreadsheet to track number of games played by none-members
• Automatic generation of file for ECF grading
• Adds ECF club code, to club node type and ECF player code to player entity

Demonstration

• Download module from git.
• On a fresh drupal install, with the admin account called admin, Install module league_demo_feature (and all dependencies)
• Add admin user to roles football and table tennis.
• Enable Organisations view and League Fixtures block.

NOTES:

To use this for sports other than chess we would need to write a new module for use with individual events, to create a new tab on fixtures to enter the information in a way that makes sense for that sport.

Need to add admin as a user to the organisation to add any events
(bit unusual as admin usually gets access to anything). There is more information in Advanced Help.

I am putting this up here, in case it is uesfull to anyone else. I will help develop it further if so.