Malifaux Rankings 2016

[OldManMyke]

Hi all

it is my intention to stop running the Malifaux rankings at the end of this year, i think 2 years is enough TBH.  When I stepped in to keep something running after RankingsHq pulled the plug it was only intended to be a stop gap until something more permenant came along, but that hasnt happened yet, perhaps whoever takes it over will be able to do a better job than I do.

i will happily work with whoever takes over to give them the historical databut they will need to have there own hardware etc. to run something along with coding a new website - the existing one is held together with duck tape at best.

 

hopefully 4 months is enough notice for someone to step up

[mythicFOX]

My thanks to Mike for all his hard work over the last two years keeping the rankings alive.

I suppose the question now is, what next?

[Joel]

I want to add my own thanks to Mike here too - you've done a great job and done so in the best spirit of the community.  You've more than done your share, and I am grateful to you for doing so.

unless another community member has the necessary skills, hardware and finances in place, I'm going to suggest that people may have to pay for rankings in future so that whoever takes it on won't be massively out of pocket.

joel

[Big Ned]

My thanks to Mike for all his hard work over the last two years keeping the rankings alive.

agreed,

 

Thank you Mike

[Shadowopal]

Not in the UK But thanks anyway for inspiring the US with all your time and hard work. 

[Gitli]

I've only been in the rankings for a couple of months but am aware of just how much Mike has given to the UK and international Malifaux community. So a huge thank you for the part you've already played in adding to this community. 

I really hope someone is prepared to take this on as it really is great fun to be a part of the national rankings even down at the bottom end of the table such as I am.

[Frisch]

The rankings most go on; PM sent

Thank you for doing such a great job so far.

[PotentiallyLethal]

I've also sent you a PM to see if I can be of any help

[shakes1066]

I have no skills in this area but would be more than happy to help towards any costs for those involved.

[PotentiallyLethal]

Hi Mike, just wondering if you've had any thoughts - as I've a lot of free time right now and could get on with working on the site if that's ok?

Edited September 20, 2015 by PotentiallyLethal

[OldManMyke]

Will set up a dump of the database next week, busy this week Im afraid

[PotentiallyLethal]

No worries Mike, just so I know that I'm working on this

Will start work on the tables and such on the site now, and whilst thinking about this I wouldn't mind extending the ranking system to the regions as listed in the Community Events section of the forums, so; North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica, as well as the UK, but will have to work out how to let people know this before I set it in stone.

[PotentiallyLethal]

This is what I'm thinking of posting to various groups and forums.

As of the start of 2016 I will be taking over the management of the UK Malifaux Rankings, keeping these up to date, the originals are at www.malifauxrankings.com.

Before then though I want to start taking ranking scores for the rest of the world, specifically those regions mentioned in the Wyrd Forums Community Events area; North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia (as well as the UK).

I’ve set up example pages at www.potentiallylethal.co.uk/malifaux-rankings and I think the instructions are relatively straightforward, and to emphasise, these are not the completed areas as I will be breaking down the regions into countries as and when I get data.

If you want to start sending data for non-UK tournaments to me at malifauxrankings@potentiallylethal.co.uk with the required details as stated on the instruction page I can start getting this started internationally.

If you see any glaring mistakes or have suggestions for improvement please let me know.

Thanks.

[mythicFOX]

Reads well, thanks for stepping up to help the community out!

 

[OldManMyke]

Right to get a dump of the events you can use the following URL

http://www.malifauxrankings.com/api/api.geteventlist.php?country=uk&year=2015

You can then parse this to get the individual event information using

http://www.malifauxrankings.com/api/api.getevent.php?event=<eventname>&year=<year>

You can use

http://www.malifauxrankings.com/api/api.getplayer.php?player=<nospaces>

to get a players record

That I think will give you all the data you need

Yes you will need to write some scripts to parse JSON

 

[PotentiallyLethal]

Thanks Mike

 

[OldManMyke]

So with PotentiallyLethal taking this over the rankings on MalifauxRankings.com are now frozen to aid data transfer.  Hopefully the new site will be up and running soon so you can check in and see how you are doing in the race for the masters etc.  Not sure what the url is going to be though.

 

 

[PotentiallyLethal]

Just to let people know that they should send Malifaux tournament data to me now for ranking purposes - use this email stephen@potentiallylethal.co.uk - if you have any tournaments from August, September or October (so far) please send to me as well so I can ensure that the rankings are as complete as possible.

The rankings at malifauxrangings.com is still the most up to date, but within a fortnight the new rankings area should be open with any new data added.

thanks Stephen

[mythicFOX]

Brilliant news.

Thanks for all you're doing Stephen.