X-Wing League Management

By kingargyle, in X-Wing

So I've been looking around for a while for either a spreadsheet or a web based system that will allow managing of a league. I've looked at Challonge and ChallengeBoard and neither are really set for a true league system. ChallengeBoard comes close, but only track ELO and not league results with MOV and awarding points for just playing a game.

I haven't found a spreadsheet yet that does what I want, and honestly I'm too lazy to create it myself. Was hoping that others that are managing their own leagues could point me to as a basis.

I've been running a league since October, and it is continuously growing, maybe 1-2 new members every month, so I think we're doing something right.

Here is our league format. Basically we promote casual play, and award players through participation only. We still try to make it fun by adding quirky ways to earn extra points (like bad luck rolls), and do 4 cards a month that are underused to keep things fresh in list building.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzLvnYHZWbxAbXB1NWtFQzd0Slk/view?usp=sharing

I printed out some simple league cards so everyone keeps track of their points for the month, then they are all turned in at the end and I tally them to determine the ranks for the month.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzLvnYHZWbxAamd0U0FsV2hQdWM/view?usp=sharing

We also do monthly tourneys for those that want the competitive aspect, and it's drawing in more casual players as well since it is a little less intimidating when it's against people you play with on the weekly casual games.

Hope this info helps!

Edited by VaynMaanen

In our local meta we have a website with a database to track all of our games.

In our local meta we have a website with a database to track all of our games.

:P

Klutz (mostly) and me made this:

http://xwing.rebelleagues.com

Edited by Mu0n

In our local meta we have a website with a database to track all of our games.

Good job promoting it without any link :P

Klutz (mostly) and me made this:http://xwing.rebelleagues.com

Is the source code available for this on GitHub or something similar? I'd have to translate it to English.

We have an ELO-based ranking based on our tournament games[0]. We plan on adding League games and challenge matches. The ELO rating decays with time, the first N games have smaller changes than the rest.

You can copy the spreadsheet as-is and just change the games, the list of names and the leaderboard will update automatically.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oxt7-o8j_WGe4RyiSayEUvPuzHXvOYbcPvshp-jyV4Q/edit?usp=sharing

weird, not sure why that link is 404ing, that is definitely the url. here's Kevin's github home: https://github.com/KevBelisle

Edited by sozin

In our local meta we have a website with a database to track all of our games.

Good job promoting it without any link :P

Klutz (mostly) and me made this:

http://xwing.rebelleagues.com

Didn't know if you wanted outsiders to know about it since we could get some data pollution.

Source is fine as I can do some tweaks and contribute them back.

weird, not sure why that link is 404ing, that is definitely the url. here's Kevin's github home: https://github.com/KevBelisle

Sozin this looks like it may fit my needs. I'll have to get it setup at home and test things. One thing I would suggest since you are using Angular would be to implement some internationalization support using angular-translate. https://angular-translate.github.io/

weird, not sure why that link is 404ing, that is definitely the url. here's Kevin's github home: https://github.com/KevBelisle

Took me a bit to figure out what was happening to make this happen. This would be the case of the hanging space... there is a space at the end of your link that is actually being carried by the link and breaking it!

Edited by Grayfax

I've been running a league since October, and it is continuously growing, maybe 1-2 new members every month, so I think we're doing something right.

Here is our league format. Basically we promote casual play, and award players through participation only. We still try to make it fun by adding quirky ways to earn extra points (like bad luck rolls), and do 4 cards a month that are underused to keep things fresh in list building.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzLvnYHZWbxAbXB1NWtFQzd0Slk/view?usp=sharing

I printed out some simple league cards so everyone keeps track of their points for the month, then they are all turned in at the end and I tally them to determine the ranks for the month.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzLvnYHZWbxAamd0U0FsV2hQdWM/view?usp=sharing

We also do monthly tourneys for those that want the competitive aspect, and it's drawing in more casual players as well since it is a little less intimidating when it's against people you play with on the weekly casual games.

Hope this info helps!

When I was a manager at the local game store we ran a Magic EDH (Commander) league like this. We even added in weekly challenges for more league points. For example maybe this week having 4 bird creatures on the board at once scored you an extra point, playing some card usually considered on of the worst cards ever in a game might score you a point, etc. We had 20 different additional point conditions every week. We duplicated some after time, but never week to week. These were usually only worth a single point, and only scorable once per week.

This would be easy to translate into X-Wing. Obviously 20 new ones each week would be hard, but you could do 2-3 new ones each week. Maybe one week award people that have no duplicate ship (or upgrade cards) in their list. Maybe award people for playing a certain mission (maybe even make custom ones). Maybe have a "ship of the week" (or upgrade of the week) that scores you a league point for being on the table at the beginning of the game. Maybe limit squad builds by waves for a league extra point. Giving a league point for playing someone you haven't played in a month would be a good way to incentivize people to meet new people or at least not play the same 2-3 people each week.

Varying it weekly gives people a chance to face different builds and maybe discover a ship that the didn't know they liked. It might help the store sell a few more ships too.

weird, not sure why that link is 404ing, that is definitely the url. here's Kevin's github home: https://github.com/KevBelisle

I managed to get this up and running locally, and from the little I've used it, it seems to be what I'm looking for. I'll need to play around with it some more tonight.