Tourney Question For Those Who Use The Tournament Director to it's Fullest Capacity (1 Viewer)

[Moxie Mike]

Hi and thanks in advance for checking out my post. Tagging @CraigT78 & @krafticus & @HiveKueen for your experience.

The next season of the Moxie Poker League kicks off in about a month. I'm exploring TTD to see if it can make life easier for running the league and whether it would be worth the effort vs. my current setup.

Currently, I have TTD software but I literally only use it for the blind timer. I know it's capable of much more but my understanding of how to set all this up is basically zero, and less than zero if programming knowledge is required.

We run a 7-event league that culminates with a championship game where bonus chips and buy ins are determined by participation.

The entry fee is $70, which is comprised of the $35 entry, $10 bounty, $10 house fee, $5 dealer tip and $10 championship game prize pool contribution. Rebuys are $55 which is $40 to the prize pool, $10 bounty and $5 dealer tip.

First break add on is $30 for 30,000 chips, all of which goes into the prize pool. Players who volunteer to deal get their add ons comped.

Players are seated at the beginning of each regular season event by drawing a seating chip, which also serves as their first bounty chip.

Entry fee to the championship is $50 for players who've participated in at least 3 events; $100 for those who played in one or two events.

Bonus chips in the championship game are awarded based on 7 different criteria:

• leading the league in points;
• number of players outranked;
• number of top 3 finishes;
• outright wins in regular season events;
• bounties collected throughout the season;
• serving as a player/dealer;
• Rebuys in regular season events.

Right now, regular season results are tracked via a sign-out sheet as players bust. Results are transferred to a Google Sheet where all the formulas are already in place.

Payouts are calculated via another Google Sheet where all I have to do is input the numbers of entries, rebuys and add ons purchased and the formula does the rest.

So at the end of the event, the post-event process of updating the Google sheet and emailing the group about the next game takes about an hour. Setting up for the championship game also takes about an hour.

So I have 7-8 hours of labor for various tasks throughout the season.

So my question is considering all of this, how much of a time savings can I reasonably expect to realize if I go to the trouble to set everything up through TTD? Can TTD meet all of these requirements? How much time will I likely have into setting all this up? If it helps, I have an IT guy who can help but that will cost $$.

 

[CraigT78]

Hi and thanks in advance for checking out my post. Tagging @CraigT78 & @krafticus & @HiveKueen for your experience.

The next season of the Moxie Poker League kicks off in about a month. I'm exploring TTD to see if it can make life easier for running the league and whether it would be worth the effort vs. my current setup.

Currently, I have TTD software but I literally only use it for the blind timer. I know it's capable of much more but my understanding of how to set all this up is basically zero, and less than zero if programming knowledge is required.

We run a 7-event league that culminating with a championship game where bonus chips and buy ins are determined by participation.

The entry fee is $70, which is comprised of the $35 entry, $10 bounty, $10 house fee, $5 dealer tip and $10 championship game prize pool contribution. Rebuys are $55 which is $40 to the prize pool, $10 bounty and $5 dealer tip.

First break add on is $30 for 30,000 chips, all of which goes into the prize pool. Players who volunteer to deal get their add ons comped.

Players are seated at the beginning of each regular season event by drawing a seating chip, which also serves as their first bounty chip.

Entry fee to the championship is $50 for players who've participated in at least 3 events; $100 for those who played in one or two events.

Bonus chips in the championship game are awarded based on 7 different criteria:

• leading the league in points;
• number of players outranked;
• number of top 3 finishes;
• outright wins in regular season events;
• bounties collected throughout the season;
• serving as a player/dealer;
• Rebuys in regular season events.

Right now, regular season results are tracked via a sign-out sheet as players bust. Results are transferred to a Google Sheet where all the formulas are already in place.

Payouts are calculated via another Google Sheet where all I have to do is input the numbers of entries, rebuys and add ons purchased and the formula does the rest.

So at the end of the event, the post-event process of updating the Google sheet and emailing the group about the next game takes about an hour. Setting up for the championship game also takes about an hour.

So I have 7-8 hours of labor for various tasks throughout the season.

So my question is considering all of this, how much of a time savings can I reasonably expect to realize if I go to the trouble to set everything up through TTD? Can TTD meet all of these requirements? How much time will I likely have into setting all this up? If it helps, I have an IT guy who can help but that will cost $$.

First glance, most can be accomplished by TD.

Exception - bonus chip payouts. I use my final league standings and import them into an Excel doc that calculates the final event starting stack. I haven't found, or even attempted to find, a method to do this in TD.

I'll respond in line shortly when I have some time where work isn't in the way.

 

[brewdawg]

I have found that most of what you are looking to setup is pretty easy. And once you have your players in the database and assigned to the league, TTD will track all their stats, and points can be assigned for different events and outcomes.

I just fired mine up and confirmed that you should be able to setup the buy-in, rebuys, add-ons with all the options that you listed. You would need to add additional Rakes on the Preferences page.

The forums for TTD are extremely helpful. Anytime I have had an issue I posted it there and someone was able to help me figure out the configuration necessary.

 

[Moxie Mike]

First glance, most can be accomplished by TD.

Exception - bonus chip payouts. I use my final league standings and import them into an Excel doc that calculates the final event starting stack. I haven't found, or even attempted to find, a method to do this in TD.

I'll respond in line shortly when I have some time where work isn't in the way.

No rush I appreciate your willingness to provide guidance.

 

[HiveKueen]

Apologies, I'm just seeing this today! Summers are pretty busy for me. If I'm too late iwth my reply you can ignore the following!

So if I understand correctly, the google sheets calculate player points-per-game, prizes and determine how many chips players get in the championship. Correct? Did i miss anything? Do youR league players access the google sheets to see their point totals or do you communicate this to them some other way.?

TD will do everything you need and I think it would save you time with post-game work. Literally, all I have to do after my games is run the predefined stats profile for the game, export the results to html and upload the 2 html pages to my website.

It's hard to estimate how long it would take you to get all set up in TD because I don't know enough about how much you know the tool or about your ability to learn to use a software tool. I would estimate it would take me 3-5 hours to set up what you need. That said, including the learning curve, it took me way more hours to set up my own league, which is a bit more simple than yours.

Cheers