pdinklag / MinecraftStats

A Minecraft player statistics browser for the web - supports 1.13 and later!
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Improve handling of events starting in the past #157

Closed pdinklag closed 1 year ago

pdinklag commented 2 years ago

Currently, events are supposed to start in the future, so there is at least one update where an event is already configured, but has not yet started. Only then will initial rankings be computed properly, because if the event has already started, there is no telling with what scores players started into the event.

Right now, the behaviour is that if an event starts in the past, the initial score is assumed to be zero, which does not really represent the reality well. Instead, if an event starts in the past, the following should be done:

pdinklag commented 1 year ago

I've decided this is more of a documentation issue rather than anything else. Events should be setup so that at least an update occurs before they begin, and the readme should state so.

pdinklag commented 1 year ago

Documented in v3.0.0.