Jachaelter wrote:that is confusing
oops insert Basketball for baseball, sorry and yes at first it is confusing. You almost just have to use it to start to understand parts of it. Was your question regarding specifics about Basketball or just a general how to use xkoranate?
Tumbra wrote:I want to sim a F1 season, how do I do that?
this probably also applies to you too, but there will be some more items that need set up between steps 1 and 2 below. I have not done auto racing so not sure what to tell you on those steps, but they are mostly just lap info and if you want qualifying or the actual race. There is also starting grid and some other parameters for the cars that I know nothing about.
Here's some more details:1.
When you first open xkoranate you will have two items on the left side;
1. Bonus
2. Events
Select #2 Events and for now ignore #1, then under that left section locate the
+ and click it. This will add a field under the Events label, you can click on it and type what you want to call it - Hoops Tourny 1 or something....
After you click that green check, even before entering anything on the new field that became available a large list will show up on the right side of the window, which is all the sports. Scroll through and find Basketball and click on it, then click continue in the lower right.
2.
On the next screen (right side) you will enter all your teams, click the
+ on that right side to add the first team and each subsequent team (or use the import feature, paper with arrow next to the
+). If your having an international tournament put the nations name in the Participants field and the trigram in the Team field (if you want, you should be able to leave the Team blank too). Then enter any ranking in the skill field, new and unsactioned event would start with zero in the skill field. The skill field is also where you add in the RP Bonus. Remember that the skill next to a participant can not exceed the Maximum Skill listed above that section, so if you have a team with 25 you will first have to change the Max Skill to 25 or greater. Now click continue at the bottom.
3.
On the next screen select what you want, individual matches or round robin. Individual matches is just that, one game. Round Robin will ask for some more information, like number of legs. Home and Away (two legs) is common, but what ever you choose is up to you and the event. Also, under round robin you will want to set any tiebreakers. This is below the leg selection and also has a check box for allow draws and show grid, select as needed. For tiebreakers, well that's up to you and the event, but can be added to, moved in terms of order, or removed by using the
+ or the
- or by drag and drop. At the bottom is where you set the point details for win, loss, and draw. It defaults to 3 for win, 1 for draw, and 0 fr loss. Once you get all that click continue.
4.
On the next screen you will set up your groups and first need to click the
+ at the bottom to add a group. Once that is done you can add a group name and add in the teams for that group. You can click on the
+++ looking thing to add all participants into one group or use the single
+ with the circle around it to add single participants to the group.
I've found it's easy to, for unseeded (potless) draws, create all your groups then go back to the first group and use the +++ looking button to add all the teams into the top group. You then click the dice looking button to randomize that first group. Then drag and drop the # of participants into each group below (first five stay in group A, next five to B, next five to C, and so on). Once you get all the groups set up click on continue again at the bottom.
5.
Now you are at the actual scorinate screen. Depending on what type you selected, Individual Matches or Round Robin (and more than one leg), there may be a Matchday drop down at the top. Select the match day you want to scorinate, typically MD1 for the first day, and click the dice at the bottom.
You have now scorinated your first day for your first event.
Hopefully that is better to follow than my first post, but please read through a thread before asking extremely general questions as you're bound to find what your looking for on another page within the thread. -----
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=7631203#p7631203-----Zwangzug did a fine job with it already on the first page, and each sport is generally the same with a few minor differences from one to the next.