I made a not-so-small patch for Bygfoot 1.9.5 providing "Fortune Teller" feature. Wanna hear the story?
First, i wanted to solve a problem: "given an opponent, and a set of players compute best possible structure and team to play against this opponent". In order to do this i needed to extract the algorithm of one-time game play. When i did, it showed up, that the algorithm is to slow to acomplish such a difficult task
I didnt want to abandon all my work, so eventually i decided to implement a "fortune teller" - feature that allows you to estimate probabilities of win, draw and defeat in a next coming match.
It was quite a difficult job for me, to make bygfoot play one match and not screw anything up. This probably can be made in an easier way, but i do not know how (btw, it's my first time i used gtk/glib for anything). For now - there is a lot of copy-pasted code from original Bygfoot, modificated only slightly (preventing Bygfoot from changing account balance for example).
Being honest, i dont think it is my fault
I could not see modular structure inside Bygfoot code (i dare not to say objective design , and extensive use of global variables (even for temporary variables - statX) was a bit of shock for me So i dont like this code On the other hand, it might as well be my prejudice, as i really dont like gtk, and programming in pure C, when C++ is at hand
What my code do is taking the next Fixture, that user team is involved in, and repeat the following procedure 50 times:
- make a rather deep copy of that Fixture (new Teams, new Players)
- play a match
In the end a summary of results is presented.
Fortune Teller is activated via button next to "next week" button. Yes, this one with a dark sphere
The best part of my patch in my opinion is the image you see during simulations
You can get Fortune Teller on http://www.kormoran.net/kubol/
Comments are welcomed