Livestat is a software system designed to manage statistics for academic competitions. It streamlines the process for recording and analyzing tournament results, making it easier for event organizers and participants to track progress and improve performance.
Livestat is a Perl-based statistics management system that has been specially designed for academic competition tournaments like "College Bowl" or "quiz bowl" events. With Livestat, tournament organizers can easily automate the processing of statistics from individual matches, and quickly publish statistics on teams and players to the Web.
One of the major advantages of Livestat project is its ability to manage complex statistical data in a simplified manner. It can sort teams by name, making it easier to keep track of all the different teams that are involved in a tournament. Additionally, Livestat now includes common.head and common.foot files that help users store the top and bottom of all HTML pages, thereby saving them time and effort.
Another improvement in this release is that Livestat no longer prints "N/A: " in round views when no player has a positive score. This feature greatly improves the user experience by eliminating unnecessary clutter and simplifying the display of data.
Furthermore, the head2head hash in standings.pl has been restructured to include fields for wins, losses, ties, points-for, and points-against. This makes it easier to compare the performance of different teams and players over multiple rounds. Finally, Livestat now includes the style 'number' in tables, which makes it easier to right-align numeric fields and improves the readability of statistical data.
All in all, Livestat is a powerful and user-friendly software tool for managing academic competition tournaments. Its ability to streamline the processing of statistics and quickly publish data to the Web make it an indispensable tool for any tournament organizer.
One of the major advantages of Livestat project is its ability to manage complex statistical data in a simplified manner. It can sort teams by name, making it easier to keep track of all the different teams that are involved in a tournament. Additionally, Livestat now includes common.head and common.foot files that help users store the top and bottom of all HTML pages, thereby saving them time and effort.
Another improvement in this release is that Livestat no longer prints "N/A: " in round views when no player has a positive score. This feature greatly improves the user experience by eliminating unnecessary clutter and simplifying the display of data.
Furthermore, the head2head hash in standings.pl has been restructured to include fields for wins, losses, ties, points-for, and points-against. This makes it easier to compare the performance of different teams and players over multiple rounds. Finally, Livestat now includes the style 'number' in tables, which makes it easier to right-align numeric fields and improves the readability of statistical data.
All in all, Livestat is a powerful and user-friendly software tool for managing academic competition tournaments. Its ability to streamline the processing of statistics and quickly publish data to the Web make it an indispensable tool for any tournament organizer.
What's New
Version 1.2: N/A