Revision as of 14:12, 19 August 2006

Teams

All players should be able to join a team of his/her choice, this should be accepted by the team founder. A player should be able to:

• Create his/her own team.
• Join an existing team.
• Leave a team.

Teams have a team founder, he/she should be able to:

• Challenge other teams.
• Changing the team name (ladder supervisors should approve with the namechange too).
• Kick players from the team.
• Edit the schedule (when the team is able to play).
• Accept players into the team
• Delete the team
• Join a ladder, this will be done automaticly on the 2vs2 ladder at first, it can be choosable when we decide to add more ladders.
• Reset ladder statistics.

Ratings

We've decided to go with the ELO rating system as the ladder rating.

Database settup

Users

The user table should get the following elements:

• ID, an autoincrement field to keep the ID of the user.
• name, the actual name of the user, a varchar limited to 32 characters.
• password, a varchar limited to 32 characters
• team_id, the ID of the team the member is in, tinyint. Linked to the teams table
• rights, if the user is an admin or has more rights than the average user, tinyint.
• email, the e-mail address of the user, a varchar limited to 50 characters.
• nationality, the nationality of the user, tinyint. Linked to nationality table

Teams

The team table should get the following elements:

• ID, an autoincrement field to keep the ID of the team.
• founder, the user ID of the player that is founder of the team, tinyint. Linked to the user table
• name, the name of the team as choosen by the founder, a varchar limited to 50 characters.

Score

The score table holds the score of teams for each ladder they participate in. It should get the following elements:

• ID, an autoincrement field to keep the ID of the score.
• team_id, the ID that the score belongs too, tinyint. Linked to the teams table
• ladder_id, the ID of the ladder to which the score belongs, tinyint. Linked to the ladders table
• score, the ELO score.

Ladders

The ladders table holds the information on the current (running) ladders. It should get the following elements:

• ID, an autoincrement field to keep the ID of the ladder.
• name, the name of the ladder, a varchar limited to 50 characters. Should be something like "2vs2 coopetition".

Nationalities

The nationalities table should get the following elements:

• ID, an autoincrement field to keep the ID of the nationality.
• name, the name of the country, a varchar limited to 20 characters.
• image, the name of the country's flag image.