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sryan27

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prize list maker
« on: July 25, 2004, 03:38:31 AM »
I whipped this together for my wife.  Thought maybe someone here might like to use it.  It's a prize list maker.  Put in the number of teams, total amount of money, then pick a distribution.  1 is almost even.  50 is top heavy.  Any suggestions or questions please post here.

http://home.comcast.net/~sryan27/PrizeList.exe

bonus points to whoever can guess what ball is on the icon.

Shawn

*edit* - distribution was wrong.

*edit2* - fixed award bug

Edited on 7/26/2004 10:01 AM

Edited on 7/26/2004 10:17 PM
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Rock77

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2004, 11:10:39 PM »
Thats a nice little extra to have. Especially if you are on the prize fund committee. My guess on the ball is a V2 particle.
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Kan_Man

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2004, 11:16:00 PM »
Nice program.  Works good.  My guess for the ball would be the Raging Inferno.

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sryan27

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2004, 09:15:16 AM »
Thanks.

The ball is *supposed* to be a Ninja RPM.
That was my first resin ball way back in
high school.

Visual Studio's icon maker really isn't that
robust

Is there anything you guys think can be
improved upon?
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livespive

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2004, 10:02:48 AM »
Question,

Don't you mean that 1 is even, and 50 is top heavy?
I do like it though very simple and "Simplicity is Genius."
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LuvThatWhiteDot

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2004, 10:39:16 AM »
quote:
Thanks.

The ball is *supposed* to be a Ninja RPM.
That was my first resin ball way back in
high school.


Based on the color of the ball I would guess a Thunder Road.  Neat program
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seadrive

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2004, 11:32:29 AM »
Cool little program.  Nice job!
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MichiganBowling

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2004, 11:42:52 AM »
I had one problem with it.  When I put $6000 as total money, all of the calculations came out to 6045.  Other than that, awesome program!!!  Can you make one for tournaments too?  I imagine that would be a lot more of the same for what you did with this program, meaning just an increase in the choices in the criteria.

Good job!!!
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sryan27

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2004, 11:48:45 AM »
Darn it.  I made a change to the program last night
and it looks like I broke the individual awards.  I'll
shape it up tonight.  For the time being don't use them
and it works fine.

As far as a tournament one goes...  I've never run a
tournament and I haven't been in one since I went adult.
What types of awards are common?
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hotstoy

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2004, 09:41:09 PM »
This is a great program, but won't work for me(unless I missed something here) as all my leagues pay out per points won.  So, I was just wondering how many others also pay based on points won rather than on a set distribution?
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sryan27

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2004, 10:25:56 PM »
How does it work in the points won scenario?  I assume there is a set number of points any team could achieve?

I haven't seen a league like this.
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sryan27

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2004, 01:32:32 PM »
I've fixed some stuff and uploaded the new version.
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hotstoy

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2004, 06:35:25 PM »
sryan27,
There is no set number of points.  If 1st place had, for example, a possibility of 128 wins and they got 96 points won and the second place got 95, the payout would be almost the same.  Total prize fund divided by total points available multipled by points won.  Anyway, I've only bowled in 2 leagues that didn't do it this way.
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Constantine

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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2004, 07:05:52 PM »
sryan27,

You forgot Most Improved as an individual award.

Point money does have a set number of points.  For example, a 20 team league who bowls 35 weeks at 7 points a night (2 per game & 1 for total) would have 245 points as a maximum for a team and 2,450 for the league.

Another potential feature could be to show the percentages of money distributed by type (place, individual awards, points)

All in all you've created a very neat tool.  Well done!
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Re: prize list maker
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2004, 12:22:12 AM »
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