• re-ordering and scrambling of matches upon results update
• Last Matches box in widget should now show the truly latest match
• plus/minus points affect team ranking (reload of page is neccessary to display new ranking

At the moment I have very little time, but will do my best to address the other issues and new sport types as soon as possible. Please let me know if the above issues work.

It is now possible to group teams and rank teams within each group. To activate a championchip, choose “championchip” as Mode in the League settings. After saving the settings there will be another option to specify how many teams advance from the preliminary to the final rounds. That number is crucial, as it defines the number of final rounds. For example Soccer World Championchip as four final rounds (Last-16, Quarter Final, Half final, final), but european championchip as only the last three.

To insert matches for the final rounds go to the “Championchip” page via the new link on the League overview page. There you’ll find a dropdown menu to add matches for a specific final round. The matches are entered symbolically, e..g 1. Group A – 2. Group B etc. Those matches will only be displayed on this page and not with the other matches. The preliminary matches are added just as normal, but don’t forget to assign a group to each match.

The symbol final rounds matches will be automatically exchanged for the true team as soon as the previous round has been played. Here’s a short list of how to setup a championchip.

1. Set Mode to “Championchip” and set the number of teams to advance
2. Add Groups into the settings field delimited by ;
3. Add Teams and assign them to a group
4. Add Preliminary rounds as normal matches and set a group
5. Go to the Championchip Page and setup the final rounds matches symbolically
6. Insert results for preliminary matches just as usual. If all scores are inserted the plugin will automatically exchange the symbolic teams in the first final round with the respective teams
7. Go to the Championchip Page and insert match results. The plugin automatically proceeds to the next round

To display the championchip page in the frontend use the following shortcode.

[championchip league_id=ID season=X template=X]

league_id is obligatory and the ID of league. season and template are optional. If you want to design custom templates name them championchip-X.php

Please send me feedback and suggestions or bugs.

1. Tennis
2. Volleyball
3. Rugby

Further I have added some options to control the display of Played, Won , Tie and Lost Matches in the Standings Table.

Enjoy.

Here’s a short description of the structure. This is only important if you want to programme custom templates or functions for ProjectManager FormFields. The statistics are merge with the $match object whereas the key is the sanitized name of the stat. Suppose you add statistics called Goals, they can be access by

$match->goals

This is an assoziative array which stores the name and fields of this statistic. You can see the contents of the variable by doing

var_dump($match->goals);

Anybody interested can also have a look at view/match.php

[standings league_id=ID]

[crosstable league_id=ID]

[matches league_id=ID]

[match id=x]

[teams league_id=ID]

[team id=x]

That makes things a little shorter. The other attributes are the same.  Sorry for the inconvinience

&upgrade=2.9.2

to the URL on any LeagueManager Administration page. As far as I have tested it, it works. If not, just use the function call directly.

move_league_to_season( 1, 2007);

Now it is possible that you have created two different leagues to emulate two seasons. Let’s say League A 2007 (ID 1) and League B 2008 (ID 2) should belong to the same league, but only different seasons “2007″ and “2008″. First add the two seasons to League A. Then allocate season 2007 to all teams and matches in this league with the above command. Next you can move all teams and matches from League B 2008 to League A season 2008 with the following statement:

move_league_to_season( 2, 2008, 1);

In general the function looks like this

move_league_to_season( leagueID, season, new_leagueID, old_season);

leagueID is the ID you want to move teams and matchs to, season is the seaso. new_leagueID is only needed if you want to merge two leagues into one with different season. old_season should only be needed if you’ve already run the above functions and want to re-allocate teams and matches.

Note: This function is also available in Version 2.9, but the last two arguments are exchanged. So the call from above would look like this

move_league_to_season( 2, 2008, false, 1);

I hope this clarifies things and sorry for the inconvinience

Edit: The best way to do that is put the function call in functions.php of your theme.

* Option to set number of teams that adavance from preliminary round to final round (easy with WP action)
* insert groups (like Seasons)
* dropdown in team edit form to allocate group to team (easy with WP action)
* Add final matches beforehand in a style Winner A – Second B (present)
* replace code format of final matches with respective team

So the basic features of the plugin already exist or are quite easy to implement. However the last part of inserting the true teams for respective final matches is quite complicated. My idea would be to add buttons to proceed into the next round.

Is there anybody or group who would be willing to work on this feature. It should be already possible with LeagueManager 2.9 to implement a Championchip Mode as standalone-plugin. If not, I would provide needed hooks.

I hope there is somebody who could work on that, because I think it would be a very cool feature.

* Modular setup and several new sport types
* unlimited number of widgets
* different dropdown menues for match report
* easy adding of custom fields for matches and teams via WP hooks
* match statistics
* shortcodes to show teamlist and single team page
* TeamRoster via bridge to ProjectManager (for match stats)
* track team rank of previous save

Due to the growing complexity and number of sport types I cannot provide templates to cover everything. I can only impement the basic features to gather all needed data. I encourage anybody who to design new templates for any specific sport type or just for the fun of it. You can then send them to me by email for inclusion into the main plugin.