User Manual

All you need to make the best use of Braacket.com.

Go to the page "Players" in your league.
Use the buttons at the top of the page to add one player, add multiple players, link league players with tournament players, or delete all players.
To edit or remove a player, use the dropdown menu at the right of the players list.
Players settings are simple: a name and a link with an account (optional).
A league player can be linked with some tournament players. This is useful to generate power ranking, and to have statistics and history. See below to learn more.

Go to the page "Tournaments" in your league.
Use the buttons at the top of the page to create a tournament, link an existing tournament or import a tournament from challonge.com or smash.gg.
To remove a tournament from a league, go to the "Settings" page of the tournament you want to remove, and change its league.
When you have added a tournament in your league, you can link its players with league players to have stats and to generate power ranking, see below to learn more.

To generate power ranking, you need to have at least one tournament to your league (see above how to do that).
After a tournament is added to your league, you must link its players with league players, 2 options are available to do this:
- From the page "Player" in your league: use "link with tournaments players".
- From the page "Player" in your tournament: edit the link of the tournament player.
Then, go to the page "Ranking" in your league.
Use the top button to add a ranking type (Elo, Glicko, TrueSkill or Point).
To update or remove a ranking, use the dropdown menu at the right of the ranking list.
Statistics and history are automatically updated. You can see all the details in the player's specific page.

Ranking based on matches played.
Players start with 1500 points.
Players win or lose points per match depending on who is winning the match and the current points of both players.
Example; if A have 1500 points and B have 1600 points:
If A win the match, A win about 20 points, and B lose about 20 points.
If B win the match, B win about 10 points, and A lose about 10 points.
For more information, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

Glicko is an improvement of the Elo ranking system.
Ranking based on matches played.
Players start with 1500 points.
Players win or lose points per match depending on who is winning the match, the current points of both players, reliability of current player points and other specific parameters.
For more information, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system
Note that the Algorithm used is "Glicko2".

Microsoft power ranking algorithm.
Ranking based on matches played.
Players start with 0 point.
Players win or lose points per match depending on who is winning the match and the current points of both players.
For more information, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill

Same as TrueSkill, but the weight of the tournaments of the previous months decreases gradually.
A "strength" parameters is available. The higher this value is, the greater the monthly rebalancing will be.

Ranking based on tournaments results.
The total of points attributed by a tournament is defined by the current league ranking of participants. If a tournament has many top players, the total of points will be high.
The winner of the tournament has 100% of these points, and the percentage decreases for the following players.
Then the points of each tournament are summed.
Note: You can increase or decrease the number of points allocated by editing the "weight" parameter in the tournament settings.

Ranking based on tournaments results.
The number of points for each places in the tournaments are defined by the administrator of the league.
Then the points of each tournament are summed.
Note: You can increase or decrease the number of points allocated by editing the "weight" parameter in the tournament settings.