getPTS does not discriminate between regular season and post-season matches

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One thing that puzzles me is why the getPTS function does not try and 
discriminate between regular season and post season games. 

In most real world competitions the post-season play offs do not affect the 
rankings from the league stage. For example you wouldn't expect to see a FIFA 
World Cup group to give those who won their quarter final an extra 3 points in 
the group stage rankings. 

If this is intentional, how are leagues expected to manage post-season games 
without affecting the league stage? 

If not, does anyone have a problem with me fixing it so only knockout matches 
(round of 16, quarter, semi & final) do not count for points?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by doublesk...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2012 at 2:03

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Well, this is because you actually should be using tournaments in each season. 
So, for example:

Every year some national league (containing the entire pool of teams), 
consisting of four divisions (say north, south, east and west) each have a 
tournament to decided the winners of these divisions. These then compete in 
some finals tournament in a separate division to find the winner of the season. 
Now, next season/year you keep the league and division structure, but simply 
create a second set of tournaments within the division representing the next 
season. This way the season stats are contained within the tournaments, whilst 
the inter-season stats for each division and entire league are contained as the 
division and league stats. This is just one way you can use the node structure 
of obblm. There are really no limits or no proper way of using them, but one 
should be aware that stats accumulate in the division and league layers are 
more and more tournaments are held. Regarding how you conferences module works 
in this setup I don't know :-).

I hope I understood you correctly. 

Original comment by Nimda...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2012 at 5:36

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Bump...

Original comment by Nimda...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2012 at 3:21

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Okay, so I decided to add this as an option. However, I found it is not 
possible with the current way getPTS() is written. 
In getPTS() there is no way to differentiate between match stats of regular 
rounds and those of finals when calculating points. Therefore, the stats which 
are used to calculate points upon (cas etc.) cannot be filtered for only those 
of regular rounds.

If you very much miss this feature I suggest you implement it yourself, but 
don't add it to the trunk yet - trying to make a stable/tested release 
candidate for 0.95 now and will therefore not add it any time soon.

Original comment by Nimda...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2012 at 9:01

• Changed state: WontFix