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Hi Jason,
Sorry for the delayed response. My website is having a few e-mail issues that I can’t find time to fix. Really annoying. Sorry.

I’m running MSTW League Manager 2.10 on PHP 8 on my local test box. If it does you any good, I can give you a beta of that (off the top of my head, I’m not certain how many changes were made from the released version on WordPress.org).

I’ve not had time to fully test the Add-ons. I hope to get to it soon.

-Mark

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Some leagues/teams add information on the coaching staff as text (or links) on the team pages (normally the roster pages).

You might also look at the MSTW Coaching Staffs plugin. Then you can provide a link on a team page to some pretty complete coaching staff information.

-Mark

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Upon further review, it’s not an oversight. My users in soccer and hockey really like it that way (because they have ‘standard’ point calculations based on wins, losses, and ties). SO I’ll need to add a setting to control whether or not you want to hand jam points. It’s added to “the list”, but that’s going to take more time. If you need it soon, please contact me via email.
-Mark

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For records – home, away, overall, conference, whatever – here’s the issue. There are a (growing) number of sports where there are no ties, games are settled via overtime. If I show ties for all leagues/sports, we’ll get a somewhat ugly ‘W-L-0’ for every team. That zero on the end of everthing is not good.

Right now, I think you are correct. You can display a column for total ties, but you can’t display ties for conferences, home, away, etc.

SO I really need to add a setting – something like ‘show ties in records’ – for every sport. Doable, but it takes some work on the front and back ends. It’s not high on the list due to the difficulty combined with the reasons above. (Contact me by email if you really want to get this done by football season.)

As for streaks: I think of streaks as Wins or Losses probably because most leagues do for the reasons above. I could add that one either driven off the new setting described above or just add it because the leagues without ties will never have it. A streak of ties offends my sensibilies, but I see your point, it makes total sense.

-Mark

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IDK. I’ve never seen a case where games from one season are displayed with another season’s standings. My guess would be there’s something wrong with your shortcode incantation and/or your database. You have to be careful that the right seasons are associated with the right leagues. And the right settings (which are tied to sports not leagues) are associated to the right sports and the leagues are associated with the right sports.

I love this because your situation is exactly what LM Add-ons was created for. So we’ll sort it out. Several regional high school sites have been working with many leagues, divisions, sports, etc. without seeing this problem. But they have not been mixing auto-fill standings with no auto-fill.

As far as your 6 vs 12 issue, it seems to me that the 6 spring teams have records so they appear when you turn off auto-fill. When you turn on auto-fill you are going to see all the teams in the league. We’ve already discussed this, but maybe it’s a hint that will help your de-bugging.

-Mark

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Oops! That seems to be a bit of an oversight. It’s added to “the list”.
-Mark

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Hi Owen,
I believe the solution to situations like this is to NOT auto update the standings. Then you can manually enter whatever Records you want. (I haven’t checked if the points are calculated automatically, but they should not be.) You can also order teams by Rank and enter whatever Ranks you want regardless of any other data.
-Mark

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Hi Tom,
Thank you for posting here and thanks for the screenshots (via e-mail … you can add these to this post).

So here’s the question: when you de-activated “Auto-fill Standings” where did the records come from for the six teams that are displayed in the standings? Six teams got their records from somewhere and six teams (that hadn’t played games) didn’t.

My guess is that you have entered records for the six teams that played games (why?) but not for the six teams that didn’t play games.

-Mark

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Alex,
There is more than enough guidance on creating leagues in the user manuals and video tutorials. I don’t think I can write more about it.

You may be missing my point in the last message. Please send me a screenshot of your demo leagues Update Games screen. Here’s mine.

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Hi Alex,
I checked this out on my dev site and everything seems fine to me. See the bottom of this page: https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/lm-league-standings/

Thanks for the additional info. In looking at your screenshot of the standing table, I’m not sure what’s up with the OTW and OTL columns, but they don’t look right to me.

Oh wait, just another thought … when you updated the games, did you click the Is OT? checkbox? The software has no way of knowing that a game is an OT game otherwise.

-Mark

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Yes. Use a CSS rule. Rows for Home and Away games are tagged with class = “away-game” (Or “home-game”) So you’d do something like

tr.away-game td a:before {
    content: "@";
    margin-right: 6px;
}

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Hi Alex,
Thanks so much for all the information. It helps. If I understand your thinking, Team 6 should have 2 pts (not 3) and Team 4 should have 1 pt (not 0). Am I reading this correctly? Pleaee let me know. I’d also like to see two more bits of information:
o The exact shortcode incantation you’re using (perhaps you could just make it the title of your table).
o A standings table that displays columns with the OTW and OTL.

Thanks,
-Mark

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Hi Jason,
So first, in the future post ONE question/topic per thread. Otherwise it becomes difficult for others (and me!) to find topics. Thanks. BUT in this case, since I’ve been down due to Hurricane Beryl, I’ll take a shot.

(Team) Schedule
#1. Yes. Take a look at https://dev.shoalsummitsolutions.com/lm-team-schedules/. The CSS for that schedule is in the Code Snippets https://shoalsummitsolutions.com/tr-custom-css-from-dev-site/

#2. Yes. I think I’ve done this before, but I’ll need a little time to remember what I did. You can also change the styling as above. There are tags for home and away so you can style however you’d like – bold, italic, different colors, etc.

(Multi-) League Schedule.
#1. I’m not quite sure what you are trying to do and I’m not quite sure what PHP 8 has to do with it. If the plugin is running on 8, there should be no difference in functionality. ?? it might help if you sent me the shortcode incantation you’re using.

#2. Again, I’m not quite sure what you are after here. Maybe setting show_nonleague=1 will help with some of it. Again, the exact shortcode incantation might help me.

I hope this helps some. Perhaps you can break your response up into each issue (4 total?) That might help others improve their sites.

Stay tuned.
-Mark

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Hi Webcando,
Thanks for the research and the information. I will certainly have a look at this issue.
-Mark

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