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1. 3 Submit The Submit menu item brings up a window Figure 3 that lets you submit events to Ratings Central The menu item will be disabled if you haven t entered your director ID and password in Cantor gt Set Up or haven t set up your Internet parameters in Cantor gt Set Up Internet 3 1 Submit Events Click the Submit Events button to submit results to Rat ings Central Clicking this button submits all events to Ratings Central that need to be submitted You do not have to nor can you specify a single event to submit The button will be disabled unless there are events to submit If an event has not been submitted before then it will be submitted if it has any results Once an event has been submitted it will be resubmitted if you ve made any changes to the event its players or its results that Ratings Central needs to know about 42 5 EVENTS MENU You can tell if an event will be submitted by looking at the grid in Events gt Select Current Cantor will submit the event if the row for the event says Modified or Submit Failed You can also look on the Edit page of the notebook to see if either the Modified check box or the Submit failed check box is checked See Chapter 10 on page 63 for what happens when you submit events If you need to correct any of the match results player data or other informa tion that you submitted just correct them and then click the Submit Events button to submit the eve
2. Event Ratings Central Open Event date July 30 2003 Submitted July 30 2003 7 27 pm Status Problem The director s password is not correct or the director is not authorized Ratings Central www ratingscentral com Official Ratings Rankings of the Austrian Table Tennis Association the Lower Austrian Table Tennis Association the Salzburg Table Tennis Association the Carinthian Table Tennis Association the Burgenland Table Tennis Association the Tyrolean Table Tennis Association the Vienna Table Tennis Association the Styrian Table Tennis Association Table Tennis Queensland the Tasmanian Table Tennis Association and the Hardbat English Association Of Table Tennis FIGURE 2 Problem email Actually you can keep either of the two player IDs by changing the events for the other ID and resubmitting So you can keep the second ID if that is easier which it may be if different or multiple directors submitted events for the players If you need another event director to remove a duplicate please contact them directly If that doesn t work please contact us see http www ratingscentral com Problems php for our email address CHAPTER 11 Mistakes and Errors This chapter discusses Cantor s handling of mistakes or errors in what you type or click To correct information that Cantor submitted to Ratings Central see Section 3 on page 41 Cantor checks all values you enter or selections you make to ensure that they are val
3. v Es verwrite Player Name Ratings Central Address 1 USATT Address 2 City State VA v Province Postal code 23227 1721 TT Australia Country United States v Email Unrated prior Sex Male v e Rating 1827 Mean Birth 9 9 1973 Standard deviation 32 Standard deviation New personal info _ Club E N ey 4 b d 197 Virginia Table Tennis Association FIGURE 11 Edit player page OK button Click the Cancel button to close the window The main window will look like Figure 15 on page 24 The final step is to submit the event to Ratings Central Submitting events is covered in Section 3 on page 41 rather than in this tutorial But you don t want to submit the test event that you just created So click anywhere in the grid e g click Sean s name The result row in the grid will now be highlighted and the words 2 OVERVIEW 23 4 Browse Players R C ID Name 7 Rating St Dev USATT ID TTA ID Club 5002 James David H 1827 32 56475 E 5001 O Neill Sean Patrick 2445 43 8840 L Add Player Rating List ae FIGURE 12 Player grid New Result James David H O Neill Sean Patrick No score Match format 13 of sv FIGURE 13 New result window Ctrl Del Delete Result in the bottom left wil
4. e For each player in the event all information on the Players gt Modify gt Edit notebook page except for Rating and Standard deviation the Unrated prior gt Mean and Unrated prior gt Standard deviation are sent s All results for the event including the scores The way that Ratings Central handles player information is a bit complicated To make the explanation clearer define the player s RC ID and rating information to be the information in the Ds gt Ratings Central Unrated prior gt Mean and Unrated prior gt Standard deviation player fields Define the player s personal in formation to be the information in all the other fields that are sent to Ratings Central i e the information in the Name IDs gt USATT IDs gt TT Australia Address 1 Address 2 City State Province Postal code Country Email Sex Birth and Club fields While Cantor sends both the RC ID and rating information and the personal in formation for each player in the event to Ratings Central normally Ratings Central only copies the personal information for a player to its database if it is the first time that it has received information for that player The reason for this is that suppose that you download a rating list enter a player from the rating list in an event don t make any changes to the player s personal information that was on the rating list and submit the event Also suppose that in between the time that you download the rating list
5. 17 27 27 27 27 28 28 28 29 30 31 31 31 33 33 33 34 35 36 36 37 37 37 39 6 CONTENTS 3 Submit 3 1 Submit Events 3 2 Previous Submissions Chapter 6 Players Menu 1 Modify 1 1 Browse 1 2 Edit 1 3 Rating List Browser 2 Copy from Event 3 Import 4 Print Chapter 7 Main Window 1 New Result 2 Modify Result 3 Print Results Chapter 8 Club Browser Chapter 9 Unrated Players 1 Player Priors 2 Event Prior Chapter 10 Submitting Events 1 Duplicate Players Chapter 11 Mistakes and Errors Appendix A Who Was Cantor Appendix B Screen Resolution and Font Size Appendix C User Interface 1 Persistence Basic Window Operation Scroll Bars Focus Disabled and Read Only Controls The Main Menu Enter Key Accelerator Keys Grids 9 1 Incremental Search 10 Drop Down List 11 List Box 12 Dates and Date Fields 12 1 Calendar 13 Buttons and Radio Buttons 14 Button Edits E Sk 7 41 41 42 43 43 43 44 47 49 50 sl 33 54 54 35 37 59 59 60 63 64 67 69 71 73 73 73 73 74 74 75 76 76 77 77 78 78 78 79 79 79 IS 16 17 T8 19 CONTENTS Check Boxes Navigator Bar Notebooks Edit Fields Progress Bars Appendix D Database Folder Appendix E Crashes and Bugs Appendix Index 79 80 80 80 80 83 85 87 OO N OY FW NY e Rh hh gt A O wk wo Neo O M b MM bM kea d Md N a E List of Figures Quick st
6. Director ID 5044 ETA Password Sport Table Tennis List database folder Cancel FIGURE 1 Set up window 27 28 3 CANTOR MENU Enter your director password in the Password field You select your password on the Ratings Central website Since this is a password Cantor will display as terisks in this field rather than the characters you type The password is case sensitive Select the sport that corresponds to your director ID in the Sport field If you want to submit events for more than one sport you will need a director ID for each sport see Appendix D on page 83 2 2 List Database Folder The rating list database file RatingList nx1 and the club database file Club nx1 contain the same information that is in whatever rating and club lists you ve imported Since the rating list database file can be rather large and there is no need to back up either of the list database files you may wish to keep them in a folder other than the database folder thus making it simpler to back up the database files that you do need to back up whenever you use Cantor Another reason you might wish to do this is if you have more than one director ID see Appendix D on page 83 You can use the same list database folder for both Cantor and Zermelo or two or more instances of either of them but if you do so you can only have one app running at a time Enter the folder you wish to use in the List database folder field Leave the
7. Ratings Central Open Event date July 20 2003 Submitted July 30 2003 9 38 pm Status Processed Thank you for submitting this event to Ratings Central We have finished processing it Summary report http www ratingscentral com EventSummary php EventID 1138 Detailed report http www ratingscentral com EventDetail php EventID 1138 Here is the information that we have for you Name Last First Marcus David Email abc xyz Director ID 5044 Title Clubs Boston Table Tennis Center Address 25 Beacon St Apt 16 City Somerville State Massachusetts Postal code 02143 4336 Country USA Phone 617 492 4317 Sport Table Tennis If any of this information is incorrect or missing please log into the Ratings Central website to correct it Ratings Central www ratingscentral com Official Ratings Rankings of the Austrian Table Tennis Association the Lower Austrian Table Tennis Association the Salzburg Table Tennis Association the Carinthian Table Tennis Association the Burgenland Table Tennis Association the Tyrolean Table Tennis Association the Vienna Table Tennis Association the Styrian Table Tennis Association Table Tennis Queensland the Tasmanian Table Tennis Association and the Hardbat English Association Of Table Tennis FIGURE 1 Event processed email 66 10 SUBMITTING EVENTS From Ratings Central Subject Incorrect Ratings Central password To David Marcus Date Wed 30 Jul 2003 21 13 44 0400
8. You can t have a list open in Excel while you are trying to import it into Cantor If you do this you ll get an error message that says something like Cannot open file RatingList csv The file is open in another application Excel uses a nonstandard CSV format Cantor can import lists that are in either the standard CSV format or in Excel s CSV format 1 IMPORT 35 MemberID Name Rating State Zip Gender DateOfBirth ExpirationDate LastPlayedDate 8840 O Neill Sean Patrick 2484 VA 22903 M 1 2 1967 12 31 2099 8 31 2003 56475 James David H 1827 VA 23227 1721 M 3 4 1973 9 30 2002 11 25 2001 FIGURE 3 Sample USATT rating list Once you ve downloaded the rating list and the club list you are ready to import them Set the Source drop down list to File To import the rating list file RatingList csv type the filename of the file in the Rating list field Include the path to the folder where the file is e g C My Documents RatingList csv Alternatively click on the button at the right of the field to browse for the file To import the club list file ClubList csv type the filename including path in the Club list field or click on the button at the right of the field to browse for the file You can import both a rating list and a club list at the same time If you do so then the selections you make in the radio boxes apply to both lists Click the Import button to import the lists Note that the rating list and clu
9. field blank to use the database folder as the list database folder You can enter the name of a folder that doesn t exist and Cantor will create it You can click the button to the right of the field to browse to the folder you want If you have already imported a list changing the list database folder will not move the list database files You will either have to move them yourself or import the lists again If you wish to move them yourself do it when Cantor is not running 3 Set Up Internet The Set Up Internet menu item brings up a window Figure 2 on the facing page that lets you set your email and Web parameters Cantor uses these when submitting events to Ratings Central and when downloading rating and club lists Put your email address in the Your address field Ratings Central will send con firmation messages to this address Enter only your email address don t include angle brackets or a display name Cantor can submit events to Ratings Central using either email or the Web Select the method you prefer in the Submission method drop down list The Web submission method is easier to set up and will work with more Internet connec tions The email submission method will probably work more quickly 3 1 Email Enter the name of your SMTP outgoing mail server in the SMTP server field This is typically something like smtp YourlSP com or mail YourlSP com For example RCN uses smtp rcn com Many ISPs include this information on thei
10. individual events that count for ratings 2 Select Current The Select Current menu item brings up a tabbed notebook window Figure 1 on the next page that lets you select which event is the current event The current event is displayed in Cantor s main window and is the event that you can add players and results to 37 38 5 EVENTS MENU y Be Current Event bate name Modified Submitted T Submit Faile i 5 13 2004 ETT Night RR Not Submitted 5 29 2004 Ratings Central Open Not Submitted FIGURE 1 Select current event window The Select Current menu item also lets you browse and add events and set the parameters for each event 2 1 Browse The first page of the notebook the Browse page contains a grid listing the events along with various parameters for each event Just like Cantor s other grids you can resize a column by dragging an edge of the column header you can rearrange the order of the columns by dragging a column header with the mouse and you can sort the grid on a column by clicking the button to the right in the column header You can only sort the grid on columns that have the button The column that is being used for sorting will show a downward pointing arrowhead in the button The grid lets you select which event is the current event The current event is indicated by the right pointing arrowhead in the leftmost column of the grid If the grid has the focus see Section 4 on page 74 for an explanati
11. 1 2 14 Standard Deviation Enter the player s standard deviation in the Stan dard deviation field If the player is unrated leave the field blank or enter an estimated standard deviation This field is not submitted to Ratings Central when you submit the event It is only for your information It is displayed in the player and result grids and printed on the player and result lists 1 2 15 Unrated Prior The Mean and Standard deviation fields in the Unrated prior box let you specify the mean and standard deviation of the playing strength of the player if this is the player s first event You can leave these fields blank but if you set one you must set both See Chapter 9 on page 59 for advice on what to put in these fields 1 2 16 Club The Club box shows the club that the player is from A player can be from more than one club but Cantor only lets you set one club for a player The club you set for the player in Cantor will be the player s primary club To add a secondary club for the player you must go to the Ratings Central website and log in see Section 5 on page 31 A player doesn t have to belong to a club If you change an existing player s primary club and check the New personal info check box the player will still be a secondary member of the old primary club To remove the player completely from the club you must go to the Ratings Central website and log in You set or change the player s club just as you do for the
12. 55 printer 31 progress bar 80 Province 46 63 quick start 17 radio button 76 79 radio group box 79 Rating 46 47 63 Lists 47 49 77 Print Lists 51 Rating List 18 44 47 Rating list uLists gt Import 35 rating list 13 14 33 36 43 45 47 64 77 rating list browser 18 36 44 45 47 RatingList csv 34 RatingList nx1 14 28 Ratings Central ID see ID Ratings Central Read only 14 read only 74 ReadMe txt 13 result 53 54 63 deleting 53 grid 47 53 55 77 Match format see Match format result sorting 55 window 54 Result nx1 14 Return 79 Right 75 77 80 SampleClubList csv 13 17 SampleRatingList csv 13 17 Score 20 54 screen resolution 71 scroll bar 73 77 Select Club 17 57 Select Current 17 37 41 43 77 Select Printer 31 Server name 30 Set Up 27 Set Up Internet 28 Sex 46 63 Shift End 80 Shift Home 80 Shift Left 80 Shift Right 80 Shift Tab 74 shortcut key 45 48 75 SMTP port 29 SMTP server 28 90 sort grid see grid sorting results see result sorting Source 48 Source 33 35 Space 67 79 80 Sport 28 sports multiple 28 83 ssleay32 dll 13 Standard Deviation player 63 Standard deviation event unrated prior 41 player 46 47 player unrated prior 47 63 Start in 83 State event 17 40 player 45 46 63 Status 41 63 Stop Importing 35 36 Submission method 28 Submission nx1 14 Submit 41 Submi
13. Figure 2 on the next page Select Lists gt Import You will see the window shown in Figure 3 on the following page Click the button at the right of the Rating list field and select the file SampleRatingList csv in the program folder e g C Program Files x86 RatingsCentral Cantor Click the button at the right of the Club list field and select the file SampleClubList csv in the program folder Click the Import button Cantor will import the lists Select Events gt Select Current You will see the window in Figure 4 on page 19 Click the Add Event button The notebook will switch to the Edit page see Figure 5 on page 19 Type Ratings Central Open in the Name field Click the button at the right of the Date field to drop down a calendar Click the Today button Set State to VA Click on the Change button to pop up the club browser Figure 6 on page 20 Click the Select Club button to select the VITA club and close the window Enter 1600 in the Unrated prior gt Mean field and enter 200 in the Unrated prior gt Standard deviation field see Chapter 9 on page 59 for instructions on how to set the Unrated prior fields for your event Click the Save button You will see the Browse page and the event you just added will be listed in the grid see Figure 7 on page 20 Click the OK button The main window now displays the name and date of the event see Figure 8 on page 21 Select Players gt Modify You will
14. The shortcut keys are PgUp moves to the previous record PgDn moves to the next record Ctrl PgUp moves to the first record and Ctrl PgDn moves to the last record These keys work regardless of which control on the Edit page has the focus 17 Notebooks Notebook tabs can have the focus just like any other control If a notebook tab has the focus then Up Left and Home change to the first notebook page while Down Right and End change to the second notebook page since all of Cantor s notebooks only have two pages 18 Edit Fields An edit field is a control into which you type text numbers or dates In an edit field Del deletes the character at the caret the caret is the vertical bar that shows where you are in the field Backspace deletes the character to the left of the caret Left moves left one character Right moves right one character Home moves to the beginning of the field End moves to the end of the field Ctrl Left moves left one word Ctrl Right moves right one word Alt Backspace and Ctrl Z undo the last change you made Ctrl C copies the selected text to the clipboard Ctrl X cuts the selected text Ctrl V pastes Shift Home extends the selection to the start of the field Shift End extends the selection to the end of the field Shift Left extends the selection left one character Shift Right extends the se lection right one character Ctrl Shift Left extends the se
15. bring up the club browser from the Club gt Change button of the Edit pages of the player Players gt Modify and event Events gt Select Current notebooks or from the Lists gt Club menu item The grid works like Cantor s other grids see Section 9 on page 77 The Find field lets you search for a specific club It works like Cantor s other incremental search fields see Section 9 1 on page 77 If you ve brought up the club browser by clicking the player or event Club gt Change button then the Select Club button will be enabled Click this button to make the club that is selected in the grid the club of the player or event Name City Virginia Table Tennis Association Charlottesville Boston Table Tennis Center Medford FIGURE 1 Club browser 57 CHAPTER 9 Unrated Players When Ratings Central processes an event it first assigns a prior mean and stan dard deviation to each unrated player in the event The adjective prior means that it is the player s mean and standard deviation prior to the start of the event If you entered a prior mean and standard deviation for the player in Players gt Modify gt Edit gt Unrated prior then it uses those values If you didn t enter a prior mean and standard deviation for the player then it uses the prior mean and standard deviation that you set for the event in Events gt Select Current gt Edit gt Unrated prior Note that it never uses the pl
16. checking the New personal info check box When Ratings Central processes an event it assigns a Ratings Central ID num ber to any player in the event who doesn t have one You use this ID number to identify the player in subsequent events typically by downloading and importing an updated rating list or by entering the ID number in the Ds gt Ratings Central field in the Players gt Modify gt Edit notebook page Cantor and Ratings Central keep track of which player without a Ratings Cen tral ID is assigned which Ratings Central ID so resubmitting an event will work correctly even if it contains new players that don t have Ratings Central IDs You only need to use the Ratings Central ID for the player when they play in a subse quent event When Ratings Central finishes processing the ratings for an event it will send you an email like the one in Figure 1 on the next page If there are no results in the event then it won t send you an email If there is a problem with an event that you submit Ratings Central will send you an email like the one in Figure 2 on page 66 Ratings Central will send an email to each player who played in the event to let them know that the event has been posted The email will contain a link to the results on the Ratings Central website and a link so that the player can opt out of receiving future emails Of course the player will only receive the email if Ratings Central has the player s email address At most
17. event club on the Events gt Select Current gt Edit notebook page see Section 2 2 7 on page 40 If the player s club is not set then when you click the Change button the club browser will come up with the event club selected Since most new players are from the club that is sponsoring the event this makes it easy to set these players clubs 1 3 Rating List Browser The rating list browser Figure 3 on the next page lets you view the rating list You can bring up the rating list browser from either page of the player notebook or from the Lists gt Rating menu item From the Browse page of the player notebook you can click the Rating List button From 48 6 PLAYERS MENU gt Rating List A A E Olsson Marie Pro Tour 3 1 2004 Omar Rashid Pro Tour 5 4 2004 Omoding Julius Pro Tour 7 4 2001 Omori Takahiro Pro Tour 3 19 2004 O Neill Sean Patrick UVATTC VA 4 23 2004 Ong Michael MA 7 10 2004 Ongking Christine UVA TTC VA 2 27 2002 Ono Tatuya Pro Tour 1 24 2004 Opazo Rodrigo Pro Tour 6 17 2004 Opdencamp Karen Pro Tour 11 6 2003 Find O Neill Sean Patrick Add Player LT En Player New Player Pinion f FIGURE 3 Rating list browser the Edit page you can click any of the buttons that show a hand pointing to a list of records From either page you can use the Ctrl N Ctrl R Ctrl U and Ctrl T shortcut keys These bring up the rating list browser on the player whose name Ratings Central ID USATT
18. is enabled then you can double click a player in the grid to add the player to the current event If the list database folder is set see Section 2 2 on page 28 the title bar of the window shows the folder s location 2 Copy from Event The Copy from Event menu item brings up a window Figure 4 that lets you copy players from another event into the current event This is a convenient way to add players to the current event if another event has many players in common with the current event The menu item will be disabled if you don t have at least two events Select the other event in the grid Then click the OK button Cantor will copy the players from the selected event to the current event Cantor will only copy players that have Ratings Central ID numbers Cantor will not copy a player if the player s name or player s Ratings Central USATT or TT Australia ID number is the same as that of a player who is already in the current event You can also double click the event in the grid This will select the event and immediately copy the players If you check the Update info from rating list check box then Cantor will replace each copied player s information i e name address rating etc with the player s information from the rating list 50 6 PLAYERS MENU A a Import Players Organization Ratings Central ID list C Doc PlayerIDs bt 0 Import Cancel FIGURE 5 Import playe
19. now In either date field increments the day decrements the day Up incre ments the month Down decrements the month Ctrl Up increments the year and Ctrl Down decrements the year 12 1 Calendar You can click the button at the right of the event Date field or press Alt Down or F4 to drop down a calendar Today s date will have a maroon frame around it You can select today s date by clicking the Today button You can select any date by clicking a day Click one of the buttons at the top of the calendar to move to the previous month or next month If you click one of the buttons and hold the mouse down the month will keep changing and speed up the longer you hold the mouse down You can also select the month by clicking on the header text that displays the month name This displays a pop up menu that lists the months Select the month you want by clicking on it or by using the Up Down and Return keys You can also select the year by clicking on the header text that displays the year This displays two buttons on either side of the year Click the left button to move to the previous year and the right button to move to the next year If you click one of the buttons and hold the mouse down the year will keep changing As for the keyboard Left moves to the previous day Right moves to the next day Up moves to the previous week Down moves to the next week Home moves to the first day of the month
20. numbers 1 4 Import Errors If Cantor encounters a problem parsing a line in a list that it is importing it will display a window like Figure 4 Click the Continue Import ing button to skip the line and continue importing the list Click the Continue and Ignore Errors button to skip the line continue importing and silently skip any sub sequent lines that have errors Click the Stop Importing button to stop importing the list 2 Browse Rating The Browse Rating menu item brings up a window that lets you browse the rating lists that you ve imported See Section 1 3 on page 47 for more information 3 Browse Club The Browse Club menu item brings up a window that lets you browse the club list that you ve imported See Chapter 8 on page 57 for more information CHAPTER 5 Events Menu The Events menu contains items that let you set the current event add events set event parameters and submit events to Ratings Central Ratings Central identifies an event by its date and director ID So Cantor only allows you to have one event on a given date If you need to submit two events on the same date see Appendix D on page 83 Do not use the same director ID with Zermelo to submit a tournament on the same date as an event that you are submitting with Cantor 1 Multiple Day Events While events are identified by their date you don t have to have all the matches be played on a single day For example if you run a tournament that lasts t
21. one email will be sent to a player for a given event So if you resubmit an event to make corrections players who were in the first submission will not receive a second email When Ratings Central receives an event or a resubmitted event it processes the ratings for the event and also processes all subsequent events that any of the players in the event or in a subsequent event that is being processed played in Please be careful when viewing old events or results that you don t click the Save button even though you haven t really changed anything 1 Duplicate Players If you neglect to enter a player s Ratings Central ID number for a player who has one typically because although the player had played before you didn t notice them listed on the rating list then when you submit the event the player will end up in the Ratings Central database twice i e there will be two Ratings Central ID numbers that are really the same player The way to fix this is to enter the player s first Ratings Central ID number the ID number that you neglected to enter not the new one in the Ds gt Ratings Central field and resubmit the event After you do this the second ID number will be for a player who has not played at all The system automatically deletes players who haven t played 1 DUPLICATE PLAYERS 65 From Ratings Central Subject Event processed by Ratings Central To David Marcus Date Wed 30 Jul 2003 21 38 26 0400 Event
22. see the window in Figure 9 on page 21 We ll assume the players have played in a previous event and so are on the rating list Quick Start Cantor gt Set Up to enter your director ID and password Lists gt Import to import a rating list and club list Events gt Select Current and click the Add Event button to add an event Players gt Modify to add players New Result button to add results Events gt Submit to submit the event to Ratings Central Please read the User s Manual for more information FIGURE 1 Quick start window 17 18 2 OVERVIEW A Cantor 7 2 Players Events Lists Cantor Z Winner Rating Winner Name Loser Rating Loser Name Score New Result Modify Result Print Results C Users David Documents Cantor FIGURE 2 Main window Import Lists Source File Rating list Club list a FIGURE 3 Import window If you have players who have not played in a previous event then you would add them by clicking the Add Player button Since we are assuming the players are on the rating list click the Rating List button You will see the rating list browser Figure 10 on page 22 Click the Add Player button to add David H James to the event You will now see the Edit page of the modify players notebook Figure 11 on page 22 Click the Save button Click the Rating List button to bring up the rating list again This time click on the line that says O Nei
23. strings may be in a slightly different order from the other version of Windows and the database wants to make sure that everything will work correctly 2 Language Cantor only accepts characters that are in the ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 character set en wikipedia org wiki ISO_8859 1 In general Cantor will use your Windows locale But if your Windows locale does not use the Windows 1252 Latin 1 code page Cantor will use the US English locale for sorting strings This may affect the order in which records are displayed in grids 3 Notation In this manual Ill write the names of menu items buttons field labels etc in a slanted sans serif font e g Rating List TI specify sequences of menu items buttons etc by separating them with a gt sign The double colon means that the sequence of items starts at the main menu For example you can exit Cantor via Cantor gt Exit TI write keys on the keyboard by putting the name of the key between angle brackets e g Ctrl Del or Enter Note that Ctrl Del means hold down the control key and press the delete key CHAPTER 2 Overview This chapter provides a brief overview in the form of a tutorial Working through this tutorial is not a substitute for reading the rest of the manual Start Cantor You will see the quick start window see Figure 1 Cantor only displays this window if you haven t entered any results Close the window You will see Cantor s main window
24. will give you two inconsistent versions of any events that occur on the same date in both sets If you set up a second set of database files you may wish to set the list database folder see Section 2 2 on page 28 to something other than the database folder This would let you set both copies of Cantor to use the same list database folder So you would only have to import the lists once rather than twice However if you do this you won t be able to run both copies of Cantor at the same time because only one copy of Cantor can be accessing a folder at a time APPENDIX E Crashes and Bugs If Cantor crashes you will see a window like Figure 1 If you don t under stand the message then it may be a bug You can copy the message and the details to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl C The message and details will also be in the file CantorCrash txt in the database folder There may also be a file CantorDatabaseError txt that contains additional error messages If you wish to report a bug or have any questions or suggestions please con tact us see http www ratingscentral com Problems php for our email address If you are reporting a bug please include specific steps so that we can reproduce it send us the CantorCrash txt and CantorDatabaseError txt files and also send us the database files if these will help us reproduce the bug The database library that Cantor uses writes all information to a journal file before updating the database fil
25. 250 e 95 of the players are between 800 and 1400 e 99 7 of the players are between 650 and 1550 Note that when estimating the event prior standard deviation from the range of players that you expect at your event you should interpret the range as being plus or minus two standard deviations not three If you set the prior mean and standard deviation for any individual unrated players then the event prior mean and standard deviation should only describe the population of unrated players for whom you haven t set individual prior means and standard deviations If you set the prior mean and standard deviation individually for every unrated player at your event then Ratings Central won t actually use the event prior mean and standard deviation but you still have to set them It is possible that a player that you thought was rated may become unrated because of a correction to some other event If this happens the event prior mean and standard deviation would be used for the player even though you thought it wouldn t be But this eventuality is extremely unlikely so not worth worrying about CHAPTER 10 Submitting Events This chapter describes what happens when you submit events When Cantor submits an event it sends the following information to Ratings Central e Your director ID and password from Cantor gt Set Up e All information on the Events gt Select Current gt Edit notebook page except for Match format and Status
26. 3 database folder 14 28 53 83 85 Date 17 40 78 79 default button 54 76 Del 80 Director 27 director ID second 83 disabled 74 Discard all 34 Display Version 31 Down 75 77 80 drop down list 78 duplicate players 64 66 duplicate record 34 Edit 80 Events gt Select Current 39 41 Players gt Modify 44 47 64 edit field 80 Email 46 63 enabled 74 End 77 80 Enter 54 67 75 76 78 80 error message window 67 errors 67 correcting see correcting errors Esc 67 73 75 78 80 event Club see Club event Country see Country event current see current event deleting 39 Match format see Match format event multiple day see multiple day events Name see Name event State see State event submitting 41 63 two on same date see multiple events on same date Event Director Login 31 Event Director Support 31 Event nx1 14 Events menu 37 Select Current see Select Current Excel 34 INDEX Existing records 34 Exit 27 Expiration 48 F10 75 F4 78 79 Find 77 club list 57 Players gt Modify 44 Rating List 48 rating list 48 focus 74 75 font size 71 For duplicates keep 34 grayed 74 grid 17 38 43 73 77 sorting 38 73 77 hardware requirements 13 Help 13 hint 79 Home 77 80 hourglass 80 hover 73 79 ID new Ratings Central 64 Ratings Central 45 46 63 64 TT Australia 45 46 63 USATT 45 46 63 ID Director 27 ID li
27. Cantor Georg Cantor 1845 1918 Cantor User s Manual David Marcus Version 9 10 April 19 2015 You may use Cantor the application documented in this manual for free to submit results to Ratings Central Any other use is prohibited There is no warranty for Cantor We provide Cantor as is without warranty of any kind either express or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose The entire risk as to the quality and performance of Cantor is with you In no event will we be liable to you for damages including any general special incidental or consequential damages arising out of any use of Cantor or out of any inability to use Cantor Copyright O 2015 David J Marcus All rights reserved Contents List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Installation and Files 1 1 Upgrading 1 2 Moving Files 2 Language 3 Notation Chapter 2 Overview Chapter 3 Cantor Menu 1 Exit 2 Set Up 2 1 Director 2 2 List Database Folder 3 Set Up Internet 3 1 Email 3 2 Web Proxy Server 3 3 Test 4 Select Printer 5 Visit Website 6 Display Version Chapter 4 Lists Menu 1 Import 1 1 Automatic Download 1 2 Manual Download 1 3 USATT Rating List 1 4 Import Errors 2 Browse Rating 3 Browse Club Chapter 5 Events Menu 1 Multiple Day Events 2 Select Current 2 1 Browse 2 2 Edit 11 13 13 14 14 15 15
28. End moves to the last day of the month PgUp moves to the previous month PgDn moves to the next month Esc closes the calendar without changing the date and Return accepts the se lected date and closes the calendar 13 Buttons and Radio Buttons If a button has the focus you can click it via either Enter or Space If a button has an icon but no text you can hover the mouse over the button to pop up a hint that explains what the button does In a radio group box you can use the Up Left Down and Right keys to change which radio button is selected 14 Button Edits A button edit is an edit control that has a button as part of the control to the right of the edit box e g Lists gt Import gt Rating list If the button edit has the focus you can click the button by pressing Alt Down 15 Check Boxes You can toggle a check box by clicking it or if it has the focus pressing Space You can click the box or the text 80 C USER INTERFACE 16 Navigator Bar If a navigator bar i e the bar containing four buttons in the bottom left of Events gt Select Current gt Edit or Players gt Modify gt Edit has the focus you can click the selected button with Space but not Enter and select a different button with Left or Right If you hover over a button with the mouse Cantor will display a hint that explains what the button does and what shortcut key you can use to do the same thing
29. ID or TT Australia ID respectively is closest to that of the player that you are editing or that you have selected in the grid on the Edit page A button and shortcut will be inactive unless you ve imported a suitable rating list via Lists gt Import The rating list grid works like Cantor s other grids see Section 9 on page 77 The meaning of most of the columns should be obvious The Last Played column contains the date of the last event that the player played The Source column indicates whether the record came from Ratings Central R C or USATT The Expiration column contains the player s USATT membership expiration date If the player has a life membership the Expiration column will say Never The Find field lets you search for a specific player It works like Cantor s other incremental search fields see Section 9 1 on page 77 Click the Add Player button to close the rating list browser and add the se lected player to the current event If you were editing a player i e you were on the Edit page of the player notebook Cantor will save any changes you made to the player Then Cantor will add a new player to the current event and copy the information for the player you selected in the rating list browser from the rating list to the new player s fields all ready for you to save the player Click the Overwrite Player button to close the rating list browser and overwrite the player you were
30. If you haven t previously submitted the event you will now be able to delete it If you have previously submitted the event then resubmit it You won t receive an email confirmation when an event with no results is processed so check on the Ratings Central website that the event is no longer there to make sure that the resubmission worked Then delete the event You can tell whether you can delete the highlighted event by whether the words Ctrl Del Delete Event just below the grid are dimmed or not 2 2 Edit Figure 2 shows the Edit notebook page 2 2 1 Navigation and Saving Any changes you make on the Edit notebook page are not saved to the database files until you save them One way to save your changes is to click the Save button If you click the Browse notebook tab Cantor will save your changes just as if you clicked the Save button In the bottom left of the window there is a navigator bar with four buttons This lets you move to a different event without first going back to the Browse page The left navigator button moves to the first event order of events is determined by how the grid on the Browse page is sorted while the right navigator button moves 40 5 EVENTS MENU to the last event The middle left button moves to the event before the one that is displayed while the middle right button moves to the event after the displayed one If you navigate to a different event Cantor first saves any changes you have made to t
31. Space 73 Alt Up 78 arrow buttons 73 Backspace 78 80 Birth 46 63 78 bold submenu item 76 Browse Events gt Select Current 38 39 42 Players gt Modify 43 44 Browse Club 36 Browse Rating 36 bugs 85 button 76 79 button edit 79 calendar 79 Cancel 73 Cantor 27 Cantor Georg 31 69 Cantor exe 13 83 Cantor ini 1 31 73 Cantor pdf 13 CantorCrash txt 85 CantorDatabaseError txt 85 caret 80 Change Club 17 40 47 57 check box 76 79 City 45 46 63 Index 87 Clear Club 40 Close 73 Club event 40 74 Lists 57 player 46 47 63 74 club browser 17 36 40 47 57 Club list 35 club list 13 14 33 36 40 57 add your club 33 Club nx1 14 28 ClubList csv 34 columns reorder 38 73 77 resize 38 73 77 combo box 78 Configuration nx1 14 Continue and Ignore Errors 36 Continue Importing 35 36 control 74 Copy from Event 49 correcting errors 41 42 54 63 64 Country event 40 player 46 63 crash 85 CSV 34 35 Ctrl A 67 Ctrl C 67 80 Ctrl Del 23 39 44 53 Ctrl Down 77 79 Ctrl End 77 Ctrl G 77 Ctrl Home 77 Ctrl Left 77 80 Ctrl N 45 48 Ctrl PgDn 77 80 Ctrl PgUp 77 80 Ctrl R 45 48 Ctrl Right 77 80 Ctrl Shift Left 80 88 Ctrl Shift Right 80 Ctrl T 45 48 Ctrl U 45 48 Ctrl Up 77 79 Ctrl V 80 Ctrl X 80 Ctrl Z 80 current event 37 38 43 53 current folder 8
32. a control is disabled its background is the same color as the window and its label is grayed A con trol will be disabled if it doesn t currently apply When a control is read only its background is the same color as the window but its label is displayed normally A control will be read only if it does apply but you aren t allowed to change it For example in Figure 1 the Submitted check box is read only while the Submit failed check box is disabled because until an event is submitted the submission can t have failed The Club field is a bit unusual It is shown as read only because you can t change it by editing the club s name but you can change it by clicking on the Change button 6 THE MAIN MENU 75 TABLE 1 Main window shortcut keys Action Key Modify P Players Copy from Event Y Import O Print T Events Select Current E zu Submit S Import 1 Lists Browse Rating G Browse Club C Exit X Set Up U Set Up Internet Cantor Select Printer Visit Website B Display Version V 6 The Main Menu The main menu and Cantor s only menu is at the top of Cantor s main win dow Each menu and submenu item has one letter underlined If you don t see the underlines then the underlines should appear if you press Alt You can also tell Windows to always show the underlines In Windows XP uncheck Control Panel gt Display gt Appearance gt Effects gt Hide underlined letters
33. al rating list and a USATT rating list When you import the second rating list you will need to select the Keep radio button in the Existing records radio box For the For duplicates keep radio box it doesn t matter whether you select New or Old because Cantor knows to not confuse player IDs from the two organizations If Cantor encounters a problem with any line in the file you are importing it will display a window with a message explaining what the problem is and what line is causing the problem The window will have two buttons Continue Importing and Stop Importing Click the Continue Importing button to continue importing subsequent lines in the file Click the Stop Importing button to stop importing 36 4 LISTS MENU Import Lists Error cu o Bad state V in this line O Neill Sean a Patrick 5001 2445 43 12 15 2002 1 V 22903 USA sean ratingscentral com 7 31 1967 M 1 8840 0 Continue Importing Continue and Ignore Errors Stop Importing Ctrl C Copy Message FIGURE 4 Import lists error window lines from the file In both cases any lines already imported will remain imported and the problem line will not be imported Some players in USATT s ratings csv file may have temporary ID numbers These are USATT ID numbers that are greater than 999999 Cantor will import these players but not their temporary ID numbers That is when you browse the rating list these players will have blank USATT ID
34. and the time that you submit the event some other director makes a change to the player s personal information If Ratings Central always copied the personal information to the Ratings Central database then the old values that you submit would overwrite the changes that the other director made Similarly if you were to make a correction to an old event and resubmit it all the old player personal information would overwrite the current information The exception to this rule of not copying personal information for players al ready in the Ratings Central database is if you check the New personal info check box for the player the check box is on the Players gt Modify gt Edit notebook page If you check this check box it tells Ratings Central that you have updated the player s personal information and that Ratings Central should replace the player s personal information in its database with the information that you are submitting 63 64 10 SUBMITTING EVENTS See Section 1 2 12 on page 46 for specific instructions on when you should check the New personal info check box You can also update a player s personal informa tion by logging in to the Ratings Central website Note that the only changes to the Players gt Modify gt Edit notebook page for a player in an already submitted event that will cause Cantor to consider the event to be modified and so resubmit the event are changes to the player s RC ID and rating information or
35. art window Main window Import window Select current event window Edit event page Club browser Event grid Main window showing event name and date Modify players window Rating list browser Edit player page Player grid New result window Result being entered Main window showing result About to delete result Set up window Set up Internet window Test sent window Test reply email Select printer window Version window Import lists wndow Download window Sample USATT rating list Import lists error window Select current event window Edit event page Submit events window 17 18 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 27 29 30 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 38 39 41 pa o 0 N OU Bb U Ne ked LIST OF FIGURES Modify players window Edit player page Rating list browser Copy players from event window Import players window Print lists window Player list sorted by name Player list sorted by rating Main window Result window Result list Club browser Event processed email Problem email Error message window Window showing disabled and read only controls The Modify Result button is the default button Progress bar Crash window 43 44 48 49 50 sl sl 52 53 54 35 37 65 66 67 74 76 81 85 1 List of Tables Main window shortcut keys 11 75 CHAPTER 1 Introduction Cantor is the front end for Ratings Central Cantor allows you to easi
36. ayer s rating in Players gt Modify gt Edit gt Rating for the prior The following sections give detailed advice on how to set the individual player prior means and standard deviations and the event prior mean and standard de viation If you have any questions or aren t sure what to do please contact us for assistance see http www ratingscentral com Problems php for our email ad dress Please get unrated players at your event as many matches with rated players of a similar playing level as you can This will make the resulting ratings for these players more accurate Note that the Ratings Central rating scale i e what playing strength a number corresponds to is similar to but not identical to the USATT rating scale To convert from the USATT rating scale to the Ratings Central scale subtract 200 points note that this conversion is only approximate and the number of points to subtract at lower ratings may be less The Ratings Central rating scale is not the same as the ITTF rating scale or the Canadian Table Tennis Association rating scale 1 Player Priors The following advice for setting player priors assumes that you are very fa miliar with the rating scale i e you know and play with many players who have established ratings If this is not true then you should probably rely on the event prior and rarely set individual player priors If you aren t sure what to do please contact us for assistance It is usuall
37. b list are sport specific So if you have more than one director ID and the director IDs are for different sports be sure you download and import the lists that are appropriate for your event s sport 1 3 USATT Rating List Cantor can also import a USATT rating list in CSV format that you can get from USATT USATT provides a publicly accessible list that does not include birth and a list that is only available to tournament directors that does include birth Cantor can import either version of the list Figure 3 shows the first few lines from such a list To compare Figure 3 to the file that you receive from USATT view the file in Notepad not Excel The first header line must have the column headers shown ignoring case and in the same order the DateOfBirth column can be omitted Each succeeding line must have the information for one player with the fields separated by commas Any field that contains a comma must be surrounded by double quotes Names must be in Last First format Unrated players must have a rating of 0 or blank Dates must be in m d yyyy format Gender must be either M F or blank Players with life memberships must have an expiration date of 12 31 2090 Import the USATT rating list file the same way that you would import the Rat ings Central RatingList csv file i e set the Rating list field to the name and path of the file and click the Import button You can import both a Ratings Centr
38. c Download To have Cantor automatically download the rating and club lists from the Ratings Central website and import them set the Source drop down list to Web You won t be able to select Web unless you ve already entered your director ID and password via Cantor gt Set Up N Import Lists Source File v Rating list RatingList csv Club list Existing records For duplicates keep Discard all New gt Keep Old Import Cancel FIGURE 1 Import lists window 33 34 4 LISTS MENU Downloading Lists Status Resolving hostname www RatingsCentral com FIGURE 2 Download window If you ve previously imported lists then the Existing records radio box will be active If you select the Discard all radio button then all the records that you previously imported will be discarded If you select the Keep radio button the new records you are about to import will be appended to the ones you previously imported If you previously imported the sample rating or club lists that come with Cantor be sure to select Discard all If you select Keep then the For duplicates keep radio box will be active You have a duplicate record if there are two records for the same player ID or club ID number If you select New then the new record for any duplicate will be kept and the old one will be discarded If you select Old then the old record will be kept and the new one discarded Click the mport bu
39. cally when it starts if the files in the database folder are from a previous version Please back up your database files before letting Cantor update them Cantor doesn t bother to update the Club nx1 and RatingList nx1 files since they only contain the same data that is in the club and rating lists you imported If Cantor finds these files are from a different version it will simply delete them and create new empty ones that are for the current version If you have database files from Cantor version 1 or 2 and you used different director IDs for different events then Cantor won t be able to update the files In this case keep your old version of Cantor to access the old files If you have multiple versions of Cantor installed be sure you don t enter the same event into more than one version 1 2 Moving Files If you move the database files from one computer to an other by writing them to a CD or if you restore them from a backup on a CD the files may end up being read only When you start Cantor you will get an error message to this effect To fix the problem right click the files in Windows Explorer select Properties and uncheck the Read only check box Sometimes if you move the database files to a different version of Windows Cantor will need to do a database pack when it starts If it does you may see a slight delay when Cantor starts The reason is that Windows is telling the database 3 NOTATION 15 that the way it sorts
40. cking the desktop and selecting New gt Shortcut This starts the Windows Cre ate Shortcut wizard For the location of the item on the first page of the wiz ard enter the path and filename of the Cantor exe file e g C Program Files x86 RatingsCentral Cantor Cantor exe Click the Next button to go to the second page of the wizard For the name of the shortcut enter the text that you want to ap pear as the caption under the desktop icon e g Cantor Click the Finish button Right click the shortcut that you just created on the desktop and select Properties Change the Start in folder to the folder where you want to put the database files If you need to submit two events on the same date then you need a second director ID If you think that you need to do this please discuss it with us first see http www ratingscentral com Problems php for our email address Also if you want to submit events for more than one sport you need a director ID for each sport 83 84 D DATABASE FOLDER In addition to a second director ID you need a second set of database files Choose a folder for the second set of files and set up a shortcut for Cantor with the Start in field set to the second folder Set the shortcut s caption to something that will tell you which set of database files it is using If you do set up a second set of database files be sure that you don t enter the same director ID into both sets of files since this
41. currently selected player you can also click the Edit notebook tab or double click the player s row The Close button closes the window Press Ctrl Del to delete the player that is highlighted The grid must have the focus for you to delete a player Cantor will not let you delete a player who has any results To delete the player first delete the player s results You can tell whether you can delete the highlighted player by whether the words Ctrl Del Delete Player just below the grid are dimmed or not The Rating List button brings up the rating list browser See Section 1 3 on page 47 for more information on the rating list browser 1 2 Edit Figure 2 shows the Edit notebook page This notebook page handles navigation and saving just like the Events gt Select Current gt Edit notebook page see Section 2 2 1 on page 39 1 MODIFY 45 1 2 1 Name Enter the player s name in the Name field with the last family name first then a comma then the first and middle names If the player s name has a suffix e g Jr add that after a comma at the end Since Cantor identifies players by their name you cannot have two players in an event that have exactly the same name The button to the right of the Name field brings up the rating list browser positioned on the player in the rating list whose name is closest to the name you have in the Name field The button will be disabled unless you ve imported a rating list The sho
42. de in the Postal code field 1 2 8 Country Set the Country field to the country that the player is from When you add a new player Cantor initializes the country to the country of the event since most new players are from the country that the event is in 1 2 9 Email Enter the player s email address in the Email field Enter only the email address don t include angle brackets or a display name When you submit an event Ratings Central will send an email to each player who played in the event to let them know that the event has been posted The email will contain a link to the results on the Ratings Central website and a link so that the player can opt out of receiving future emails Of course the player will only receive the email if Ratings Central has the player s email address At most one email will be sent to a player for a given event So if you resubmit an event to make corrections players who were in the first submission will not receive a second email 1 2 10 Sex Set the Sex field to the player s sex 1 2 11 Birth Enter the player s birth date in the Birth field Use the year month day order that matches your Windows regional settings 1 2 12 New Personal Info Check the New personal info check box if the per sonal information that Ratings Central has for the player is incorrect or incomplete and you are updating it The New personal info check box only applies to the personal information fields i e the Nam
43. e IDs gt USATT IDs gt TT Australia Address 1 Address 2 City State Province Postal code Country Email Sex Birth and Club fields If you check the New personal info check box the values in all these fields will be sent to Ratings Central and will replace the corresponding information for the player that Ratings Central has Note that this includes any fields that you clear For example if you clear a player s Email field and check the New personal info check box then after you ve submitted the event Ratings Central will not have an email for the player Also note that if you check the New personal info check box you should make sure that all of the personal information fields for the player have the correct information since all of them will be sent to Ratings Central Do not check the New personal info check box if you only make changes to the Rating Standard deviation or Unrated prior fields since the check box has nothing to do with these fields Generally you should not check the New personal info check box if you change the IDs gt Ratings Central field The most common reason you would change the IDs gt Ratings Central field is if a player has two Ratings Central IDs an original one and a duplicate and you are changing the value in the field to the player s original ID The Ratings Central ID is not personal information about the player but rather identifies who the player is If you change the Ds gt Ratings C
44. e If the player does not have a TT Australia ID then leave the field blank The button to the right of the TT Australia field brings up the rating list browser positioned on the player whose TT Australia ID is closest to the value in the TT Australia field The button will be disabled unless you ve imported a Ratings Central rating list The shortcut key for the button is Ctrl T See Section 1 3 on page 47 for more information on the rating list browser The shortcut keys for the rating list browser buttons also work from the Browse page of the notebook 1 2 3 Address Enter the player s address in the Address 1 and Address 2 fields If you only need one line for the player s address leave the Address 2 field blank 1 2 4 City Enter the player s city in the City field 1 2 5 State Set the State field to the state for the USA or province for Canada that the player is from For countries other than the USA and Canada the field will be disabled When you add a new player Cantor initializes the state to the state of the event since most new players are from the state that the event is in 46 6 PLAYERS MENU 1 2 6 Province If the player is from a country other than the USA or Canada and their mailing address includes a province enter it in the Province field The field will be disabled if the player is from the USA or Canada Please use the State field for Canadian provinces 1 2 7 Postal Code Enter the player s postal co
45. e mouse selects a player You can also select a player by typing their name into the list box For example to select James you can type j or ja In general the list box moves to the first player whose name starts with the string you typed After 1 5 seconds the list box forgets what you ve typed so you can type a new string You can also press Backspace to clear the last character you typed 12 Dates and Date Fields In grids Cantor displays dates using the short date format specified in your Windows regional settings You can change these settings in Control Panel gt Re gional and Language Options Cantor has two date fields where you can enter a date Players gt Modify gt Edit gt Birth and Events gt Select Current gt Edit gt Date For the Birth field use the year month day order that matches your short date Windows regional settings The event Date field displays the month name but you can still enter the date 15 CHECK BOXES 79 into this field using numbers However unlike the Birth field you must enter the numbers in this field using the month day year order since the month comes first when the number is converted to a word You can use either a two digit year or a four digit year in either date field For the Birth field Cantor assumes that a two digit year is in the past For the event Date field Cantor assumes that two digit years are between eighty years ago and twenty years from
46. ease enter your Internet parameters see Section 3 on page 28 and perform the test in Section 3 3 on page 30 to make sure you can submit events Before submitting a real event to Ratings Central please read Chapter 9 on page 59 to learn how to set the mean and standard deviation for unrated players 2 OVERVIEW 25 Ratings Central Open Sunday November 20 2011 MECA E A PE 2445443 O Neill Sean Patrick 1827 32 James Dan omoa aonan LE ac ia C Users David Documents Cantor FIGURE 16 About to delete result CHAPTER 3 Cantor Menu The Cantor menu contains items that relate to the application as a whole 1 Exit The Exit menu item closes Cantor No information is lost when you do this because Cantor always writes all information to the database files immediately after completing any operation 2 Set Up The Set Up menu item brings up a window Figure 1 that lets you set your director ID and password and the location of the list database folder 2 1 Director Enter your director ID in the D field To get a director ID you must register on the Ratings Central website Your director ID is not the same as your player ID if you have one Once you ve submitted an event Cantor won t let you change the director ID Do not share your director ID with anyone else If more than one person will be submitting events for your club each person should register as an event director a Set Up
47. ed The Esc key is generally the same as pressing the Cancel or Close button 3 Scroll Bars Scroll bars work just as they do for other Windows apps Click one of the arrow buttons to scroll one line or column Click the area between the arrow buttons and the thumb i e the slider in the middle of the scroll bar to scroll by one screenful Drag the thumb to scroll a variable amount Scroll bars in grids work slightly differently see Section 9 on page 77 73 74 C USER INTERFACE Edit Event Name Thursday Night RR Date May 8 2004 Match format 3 of 5 State MA Country USA E Club Boston Table Tennis Center Change Clear Unrated players Status Modified Submitted Mean 1300 Standard deviation 350 FIGURE 1 Window showing disabled and read only controls 4 Focus A control is a menu grid button edit field drop down list check box radio button etc The control that is currently receiving keyboard input is said to have the focus The Tab key moves the focus to the next control while Shift Tab moves the focus to the previous control Controls generally show that they have the focus by either some sort of highlighting or by displaying a dotted focus rectangle Windows may hide the focus rectangle until you use the keyboard to turn off this feature see Section 6 on the facing page 5 Disabled and Read Only Controls Controls can be enabled disabled or read only When
48. ed printer Cantor remembers this information both during a single invocation and between invocations To do this Cantor writes the information to the file Cantor iniin the database folder You can delete the Cantor inifile if you want Cantor to revert to the default positions sizes etc 2 Basic Window Operation The buttons in the top right of a window s title bar work just as they do for other Windows applications to minimize zoom or close the window You can right click the title bar or press Alt Space to activate the Windows system menu You can close a window by pressing Alt F4 You can resize a window by dragging its border with the mouse A few of Cantor s windows cannot be resized while some others can have their width changed but not their height In the latter case Windows doesn t know that the window can only be resized in one dimension and so will change the mouse cursor if you hover over any of the borders You can maximize a window by double clicking its title bar and restore it to its previous size by double clicking it again And of course you can move a window to a new position by dragging its title bar with the mouse Note that closing a wndow by Alt F4 or clicking the close button in the title bar i e the x button is similar to clicking the Cancel or Close button whichever the window has So if you are currently editing something e g an event or player any edits that you ve made will be discard
49. editing or had selected in the player grid with the player you selected in the rating list browser Click the New Player button to close the rating list browser and add a new blank player to the current event If you were editing a player Cantor will save any changes you made to the player If the rating list grid is sorted on the Name column Cantor will set the new player s name to the contents of the Find field If 2 COPY FROM EVENT 49 N Copy Fayez from Event ry 5 13 2004 Thursday Night RR S Update info from rating list FIGURE 4 Copy players from event window the string in the Find field is all lower case Cantor will capitalize the initial letters of words when setting the new player s name This makes it easy to add a player when you discover that the player you are looking for is not in the rating list Click the Close button to close the rating list browser without changing the players in the event If you open the rating list browser from the Rating List button on the Browse page the Overwrite Player button will be disabled If you open the rating list browser from the Lists gt Rating menu item the Add Player Overwrite Player and New Player buttons will be disabled If the Overwrite Player button is enabled then you can double click a player in the grid to overwrite the player you are editing with the player you double clicked If the Overwrite Player button is disabled but the Add Player button
50. entral field and also check the New personal info check box then this means that you want 1 MODIFY 47 Ratings Central to update the personal info for the player who corresponds to the new ID This is unlikely to be what you want See Chapter 10 on page 63 for more information The New personal info check box will be disabled if the player s IDs gt Ratings Central field is blank and the event has not been submitted since there is no old info in this case to update When you submit the event Cantor will clear the New personal info check box since the new info has now been sent to Ratings Central Note that Cantor only submits a player to Ratings Central if the player has played at least one match So checking the New personal info check box will have no effect if the player doesn t play any matches in the event 1 2 13 Rating Enter the player s rating in the Rating field If the player is un rated leave the field blank or enter an estimated rating This field is not submitted to Ratings Central when you submit the event It is only for your information It is displayed in the player grid on the Browse page of the notebook and the result grid in the main window and printed on the player and result lists when you do Players gt Print or click the Print Results button in the main window Note that the Ratings Central and USATT rating scales are different See Chap ter 9 on page 59 for advice on converting between the two scales
51. es After updating the database files the journal file is deleted This should ensure that the files are not corrupted even if the computer is unplugged in the middle of writing to the files If this happens you may see a file with an n 1 extension in the database folder This is the journal file When you start Cantor it should process the journal file and delete it Most hard disk controllers provide a write caching feature If this feature is on applications may not be able to force data to be physically written to the disk In Windows XP do Control Panel gt System gt Hardware gt Device Manger Then expand the Disk drives node Right click on the disk drive controller and choose Properties gt Policies You will see a check box labeled Enable write caching on the disk Underneath it says This setting enables write caching to improve disk performance but a power outage or equipment failure might result in data loss or corruption You may wish to uncheck this check box r A Cantor Unexpected Error x The following unexpected error occurred Close u NexusDB MainDatabase Unknown server exception object has unknown error code 3CA0 15520 Show Details FIGURE 1 Crash window 85 79 79 53 accelerator key 75 77 Add Event 17 39 Add Player 18 44 48 Address 1 45 46 63 Address 2 45 46 63 Alt 75 77 Alt Backspace 80 Alt Down 78 79 Alt F4 67 73 80 Alt
52. for keyboard navigation until press the Alt key In Windows Vista and Windows 7 check Control Panel gt Ease of Access gt Change how your keyboard works gt Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys This setting may also affect whether the focus rectangle is hidden until you use the keyboard You can select a menu or submenu item by pressing Alt and the underlined letter If the menu has the focus you can just press the letter without holding down the Alt key You can toggle the focus between the menu and the rest of the main window by pressing Alt or F10 If the menu has the focus then Left moves to the previous menu item or if a submenu is displayed displays the previous submenu Similarly Right moves to the next menu item or submenu Up and Down move to the previous or next submenu item If no submenu is displayed then they display the submenu Enter selects the current menu or submenu item Esc closes a submenu If no submenu is open then it gives the focus back to the rest of the main window Most of the submenu items have a single letter to their right This letter spec ifies the shortcut key for the item You can press the shortcut key to select the submenu item For example there is a P next to Players gt Modify If you press P it is the same as clicking on Modify The shortcut keys only work if the main menu doesn t have the focus which is normally the case Table 1 lists the menu items and
53. ft select the previous item Right and Down select the next item PgUp moves up the number of items in one screenful PgDn moves down the number of items in one screenful Home goes all the way to the first item End goes all the way to the last item F4 Alt Down and Alt Up act as toggles opening and closing the list and Esc closes the list without changing the selection from what it was when the list was opened With the list open clicking with the mouse selects an item and Enter closes the list With the list either open or closed you can also select an item by typing it into the control For example to select VA you can type v or va Similarly you can select 2 by typing 2 In general the list moves to the first item which starts with the string you typed After 1 5 seconds the control forgets what you ve typed so you can type a new string You can also press Backspace to clear the last character you typed 11 List Box Cantor uses list boxes to select the winner and loser in the New Result and Modify Result windows In a list box Up selects the previous player Down selects the next player PgUp moves up the number of players in one screenful PgDn moves down the number of players in one screenful Home goes all the way to the first player End goes all the way to the last player Left tabs to the previous control and Right tabs to the next control Clicking with th
54. g upward over time and there are also significant regional differences USATT ratings are currently probably 200 points higher on average than Ratings Central ratings If all you know about a player is their USATT rating then we suggest the following For the prior mean use their USATT rating minus 200 For players rated at least 1000 use a prior standard deviation of 150 For players rated less than 1000 use a prior standard deviation of 250 2 Event Prior You must always set the event prior mean and standard deviation While the prior mean and standard deviation for a player measure what you know of the player s playing strength it is best to interpret the event prior mean and standard deviation as describing the range of unrated players at your event For example if you think the unrated players range from 800 to 1400 then you 2 EVENT PRIOR 61 would use the average of these two values i e 1100 as the mean and the differ ence of these two values divided by four i e 150 as the standard deviation More precisely about 2 3 of the unrated players should be within one standard deviation of the mean and about 3 should be more than one standard deviation from the mean 95 should be within two standard deviations and 99 7 should be within three standard deviations So for the example in the previous paragraph of a mean of 1100 and a standard deviation of 150 you should think that e 2 3 of the players are between 950 and 1
55. he values from the Windows Address and Port fields to Cantor s Server name and Port fields If your proxy server requires a username and password enter them in the Username and Password fields Sometimes a company uses a proxy server but you can still access the Web even if you leave the User proxy server check box unchecked 3 3 Test Click the Test button to test your Internet setup When you click this button Cantor will send a test submission to Ratings Central If Cantor succeeds in sending the test it will display the window in Figure 3 Ratings Central will respond with an email like the one in Figure 4 The Submitted date and time in the email will be the date and time that you clicked the Test button 6 DISPLAY VERSION 31 Select Printer FIGURE 5 Select printer window 4 Select Printer The Select Printer menu item brings up a window Figure 5 that lets you select which printer Cantor prints to If you select Default then Cantor will print to whichever printer you ve set as the default printer in Windows Cantor stores the printer you select in the Cantor inifile so Cantor will remember the value even after you quit Cantor 5 Visit Website The Visit Website menu item opens your browser on the Ratings Central home page http www ratingscentral com To get to the Event Director Support web page log in using your director ID number and password where it says Event Director Login in the
56. he displayed event If you do not want to save your changes you should click the Cancel button instead 2 2 2 Name Enter the name of the event in the Name field You must set the name for the event 2 2 3 Date Enter the date of the event in the Date field If the event lasts more than one day enter the date of the first day Although the field displays the date using the month name you can enter the date using numbers If you do use numbers they must be in the order month day year Generally Cantor uses your Windows regional settings to display dates in the format that is appropriate for your region but because this field displays the month name you must enter the month number first You can also set the date by clicking the button to the right of the field to drop down a calendar Once you ve submitted the event you can t change the date If you submit the event using the wrong date you will have to delete all the matches resubmit the event to delete it then enter the matches into a new event on the correct date If you feel it is impractical for you to do this contact us for assistance see http www ratingscentral com Problems php for our email address 2 2 4 Match Format When you enter results you can select the match format for each result Since it would be tedious to have to change the format for every result the Match format field lets you set the default format to use when entering results for matches in the event In o
57. he name and date of the current event Below that is a grid showing all the match results for the current event The grid works like Cantor s other grids see Section 9 on page 77 The event date is displayed using long date format specified in your Windows regional settings You can change these settings in Control Panel gt Regional and Language Options Press Ctrl Del to delete the result that is highlighted The grid must have the focus for you to delete a result The column shows the order in which you entered the results So result 1 is the first result that you entered for the event result 2 is the second etc Deleting a result does not change the numbers of the other results The status bar at the bottom of the window shows the location of the database folder 4 Cantor 7 2 CES Players Events Lists Cantor Ratings Central Open Sunday November 20 2011 E Z Winner Rating Winner Name Loser Rating Loser Name Score 1 2445243 O Neill Sean Patrick 1827132 James David H 7 4 10 2 1827132 James David H 2445143 O Neill Sean Patrick 9 10 11 7 8 Modify Result Print Results C Users David Documents Cantor FIGURE 1 Main window 53 54 7 MAIN WINDOW New Result Loser James David H O Neill Sean Patrick O Neill Sean Patrick Match format 30f5 v FIGURE 2 Result window 1 New Result The New Result button brings up a window Figure 2 that lets you enter res
58. id H 32 VITA a 5001 O Neill Sean Patrick 2445 VA 9 o b o g Jete Piave Rating List Cese FIGURE 1 Modify players window 43 44 6 PLAYERS MENU F 9 IDs Name O Neill Sean Patrick Ratings Central Address 1 USATT 8840 fi Address 2 TT Australia ei City State VA v Postal code 22903 Country United States a Email sean ratingscentral com Unrated prior Rating 2445 Mean Sex Male v Birth 7 31 1967 Standard deviation 43 Standard deviation New personal info Club 4 4 gt gt Virginia Table Tennis Association Change Clear FIGURE 2 Edit player page player grid display information that you can also view on the Edit notebook page Each column is described below when we describe the Edit page The Find field lets you search for a specific player This is an incremental search field so you can type just the first part of what you are searching for and the grid will move to the first matching player The search happens after every keystroke The value you type must be the sort of thing that is in the column that the grid is sorted on e g if you want to search for a player by name you must sort the grid by name by clicking on the button in the header of the Name column The Add Player button switches to the Edit page to let you add a new player to the event The Edit button switches to the Edit page for the
59. id and consistent with all other values On the other hand Cantor almost never asks you to confirm your selections i e it will do what you tell it without asking you if you really mean it Such confirmation dialogs rapidly become tedious and are often ignored anyway If you do make a mistake Cantor provides ways to correct it If you enter a value that is not valid Cantor displays an error message window Figure 1 In this window you cannot select the Close button by pressing Enter or Space This is so you won t accidentally close the window without noticing it was there To close the window you can click the Close button or press the Esc key You can also use the standard Windows ways of closing windows i e click the x in the title bar or press Alt F4 You can copy the message to the clipboard via Ctrl C You can select all of the message text via Ctrl A You can select part or all of the message with the mouse Once you click in the message with the mouse you can use the usual keyboard keys to change the selection e g Shift Right If part or all of the message is selected Ctrl C copies the selected text to the clipboard If nothing is selected then Ctrl C copies the entire message to the clipboard Xx There is no event with that ID Close Ctrl C Copy Message FIGURE 1 Error message window 67 APPENDIX A Who Was Cantor Georg Cantor 1845 1918 was a famous mathematician who founded se
60. ing list includes an ID from a different organization that is the same as a player already in the current event s Already a player in event with same name Since Cantor identifies players by their name you cannot have two players in an event that have exactly the same name If you have imported rating lists from both USATT and Ratings Central and are importing players by specifying USATT IDs then Cantor will first look for the player on the Ratings Central list and import that record if there is one If there isn t one then it will look for the player on the USATT list If the state or country on the rating list are not valid Cantor will use the state and country values for the current event If the gender value on a USATT rating list record is missing Cantor will use male 4 Print The Print menu item brings up a window Figure 6 that lets you print lists of the players in the current event If you check the Name check box Cantor will print a player list sorted alphabet ically see Figure 7 If you check the Rating check box Cantor will print a player list sorted in order of rating see Figure 8 on the next page The latter list also shows the seeding of each player in the event 52 6 PLAYERS MENU Seed Rating Name 1 2445 43 O Neill Sean Patrick 2 1827432 James David H FIGURE 8 Player list sorted by rating CHAPTER 7 Main Window Figure 1 shows Cantor s main window The main menu is at the top Below that is t
61. l no longer be dimmed see Figure 16 on page 25 Press Ctrl Del to delete the result Then select Events gt Select Current and press Ctrl Del to delete the event This also deletes the players in the event Select Cantor gt Exit to close Cantor and then use Windows Explorer to delete the Club nx1 and RatingList nx1 files in the database folder The location of the database folder is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of Cantor s main window see Chapter 7 on page 53 Note that the sample rating list and club list files you used in this overview are just samples they do not contain real players or clubs Their only purpose 24 2 OVERVIEW New Result Loser James David H MM oames David l O Neill Sean Patrick O Neill Sean Patrick _ Match format 3 of5 7 FIGURE 14 Result being entered 4 Cantor 7 2 Players Events Lists Ratings Central Open Sunday November 20 2011 E Y Winner Rating Winner Name LJ Loser Rating Loser Name Score K 1 2445243 O Neill Sean Patrick 1827132 James David H 7 4 10 2 Modify Result Print Results C Users David Documents Cantor FIGURE 15 Main window showing result is to let you work through this overview Do not use them when running a real event that you will submit to Ratings Central See Section 1 on page 33 for how to download and import real rating and club lists Before entering a real event into Cantor pl
62. le to keep these two files in a different folder than the other database files see Section 2 2 on page 28 The remaining five files with the nx1 extension contain the information for all the events players and results They are interdependent so you should treat them as a group Be sure to make backup copies of them each time that you use Cantor and keep the copies in a safe place The location of the database folder is controlled by the shortcut that you use to start Cantor The shortcuts that the installer creates will put this folder in your app data folder e g C Users YourUserName AppData Roaming RatingsCentral Cantor Note that the default location of the database folder has been different in different versions of Cantor See Appendix D on page 83 for how to tell Cantor where your database folder is 1 1 Upgrading The format of the database files in a new major version of Cantor will be different than in previous versions However the file format will not change in a minor version release You do not need to uninstall a previous version when installing a new version this applies to both major and minor versions By default the installation program will install a new version so that it replaces an older version But please make sure that your shortcuts still point to the location of your database folder In general Cantor can update database files from previous versions to the current version s format It will do this automati
63. lection left by one word and Ctrl Shift Right extends the selection right by one word You can also drag with the mouse to select text If any text is selected then whatever you type will replace the selected text and Del and Backspace will delete the selected text When you move to an edit field using the keyboard the contents is selected so whatever you type will replace the contents To edit the contents press a key that moves the caret e g Left or End or click with the mouse to deselect the text 19 Progress Bars When Cantor needs to do something that may take some time it puts up a progress bar e g Figure 3 on the next page For some operations it doesn t put up a progress bar but does change the cursor to an hourglass When Cantor puts up a progress bar you can click the Abort button to abort the operation You can also abort by pressing Esc or Enter Pressing Alt F4 won t abort 19 PROGRESS BARS Importing List FIGURE 3 Progress bar 8l APPENDIX D Database Folder This chapter explains how Cantor finds the database folder how you can move the folder to a different location after Cantor is installed and how you can have more than one event on a given date There are two ways to tell Cantor where the database folder is setting the current folder and using a command line parameter Whenever Windows starts an application it designates one folder as the cur rent folder When you start Can
64. left sidebar below the ads on any page on the website 6 Display Version The Display Version menu item brings up a window Figure 6 on the following page that shows version and copyright information The version number is also shown in the title bar of Cantor s main window You can find the latest version of Cantor on the Ratings Central website You can click on the photo to go to a webpage about Georg Cantor 32 3 CANTOR MENU T Version Cantor Version 3 0 Copyright 2004 David Marcus FIGURE 6 Version window CHAPTER 4 Lists Menu The Lists menu contains items that let you import rating or club lists and browse the imported lists 1 Import The Lists gt Import menu item brings up a window Figure 1 that lets you import a rating list or club list into Cantor You don t need a rating list to use Cantor but a rating list makes entering players much simpler Similarly you don t need a club list but without one Cantor won t let you enter clubs for players or events To add your club to the Ratings Central club list go to the Ratings Central website and log in see Section 5 on page 31 Ratings Central provides players personal information so that you can publi cize and run your events Please respect players privacy do not use the informa tion for other purposes or give it to anyone else There are two ways to download the rating and club lists automatic and man ual 1 1 Automati
65. ll Sean Patrick then click the Add Player button Click 2 OVERVIEW 19 Date 7 s Submitted pana Submit failed save Cancel FIGURE 5 Edit event page 20 2 OVERVIEW FI clubs a Virginia Table Tennis Association Charlottesville T BTTC Boston Table Tennis Center Medford f 4 Select Current Event Submit Fail 11 20 2011 Ratings Central Open Not Submitted FIGURE 7 Event grid the Save button The window should look like Figure 12 on page 23 Click the Close button Click the New Result button at the bottom of the main window You will see the window in Figure 13 on page 23 Click O Neill Sean Patrick in the Winner left list box and James David H in the Loser right list box Enter 7 4 10 and 2 in the Score boxes The window will look like Figure 14 on page 24 Click the 2 OVERVIEW 21 Z Winner Rating Winner Name ol Loser Rating Loser Name D Score Ctrl Del Delete Result New Result Modify Result Print Results C Users David Documents Cantor FIGURE 8 Main window showing event name and date AL Browse Players FIGURE 9 Modify players window 22 2 OVERVIEW y Rating List OX O E SEE D 5002 James David H 7 1 2002 23227 1721 USA 5001 O Neill Sean Patrick 2445 43 VITA VA 12 15 2002 22903 USA 5003 Schlager Werner 2840 75 2 25 2002 AUT
66. ly submit results and corrections to Ratings Central You can see all the results and ratings on the Ratings Central website at www ratingscentral com The only documentation for Cantor is this manual there is no Help You will probably want to print this manual double sided and place it in a three ring binder If you read this manual you will find Cantor to be very easy to use Chap ter 2 on page 17 contains an overview in the form of a tutorial The following chap ters of the manual are organized around each of the item s in Cantor s main menu These are followed by chapters on Cantor s main window and club browser Then come chapters on unrated players submitting events and mistakes and errors The appendices cover Georg Cantor screen resolution and font size detailed in formation on the user interface how Cantor finds the database folder and crashes and bugs 1 Installation and Files Cantor runs on Windows 8 1 8 7 Vista XP 2000 Server 2008 Server 2003 Any computer hardware should work You should also be able to run it on a Mac or Linux using Wine or CrossOver To submit results to Ratings Central you will need a connection to the Internet see Section 3 on page 28 for more information You do not need to be connected to the Internet while you are entering results into Cantor So you could enter the results at your club and then submit the results later The installation program e g Cantor_9 10_Setup exe creates a p
67. mn Home scrolls all the way to the left and End scrolls all the way to the right Clicking with the mouse makes the row you clicked the current row In the grids on the Browse page of the player or event notebooks you can double click a player or event to switch to the Edit page for the player or event In the result grid in the main window you can double click a result to modify the result i e the effect is the same as selecting a result then clicking the Modify Result button Pressing Ctrl G sets the focus to the grid In a Find field pressing Up moves the focus to the grid 9 1 Incremental Search The player rating list and club grids have associated Find fields that let you search for a specific record These are incremental search fields so you can type just the first part of what you are searching for and the grid 78 C USER INTERFACE will move to the first matching record The search happens after every keystroke The value you type must be the sort of thing that is in the column that the grid is sorted on For example if you want to search for a player by name you must sort the grid by name by clicking on the button in the header of the grid s Name column 10 Drop Down List A drop down list also called a combo box is a control that drops down a list of choices when you click the arrow at the right of the text e g Players gt Modify gt Edit gt State With the list open or closed Up and Le
68. moving to is a button it will also be clicked If the control is a check box it will be toggled i e checked if unchecked and vice versa If the control is a radio button it will be selected If the control that has the focus doesn t respond to letter keys e g abutton or an edit field that only accepts numbers then you don t have to hold down the Alt key just press the letter key Note that drop down lists do respond to letter keys 9 GRIDS 77 9 Grids Cantor uses grids to display events players clubs results and submissions You can find grids in the main window and in Lists gt Rating Events gt Select Current Players gt Modify as well as a few other places The selected item in a grid is indicated by a right pointing arrowhead in the leftmost column If the grid has the focus then the selected item is also high lighted The scroll bars in grids are standard Windows scroll bars with the following differences Click the area between the arrow buttons and the thumb of the hor izontal scroll bar to scroll by one screenful minus one column So if you scroll right say the last fully visible column on the right before you scroll will be the column on the left after you scroll Click the area between the arrow buttons and the thumb of the vertical scroll bar to move the number of rows in one screenful Drag the thumb to move a variable amount You can resize or reorder columns by dragging with the mouse To
69. nts again If you are correcting a player s personal information you will have to check the player s New personal info check box Do not check the New personal info check box if you are only correcting a player s ID rating or unrated prior See Section 1 2 12 on page 46 for more information on the New personal info check box See Section 1 on page 64 for how to fix a duplicate player 3 2 Previous Submissions The grid at the bottom of the window shows each submission of an event The grid works like Cantor s other grids see Section 9 on page 77 The Submitted column is the date and time that Cantor sent the event to Ratings Central CHAPTER 6 Players Menu The Players menu contains items that let you add players to modify players in and print lists of the players in the current event The current event is the one that is displayed in the main window and which you selected via Events gt Select Current 1 Modify The Modify menu item brings up a tabbed notebook window Figure 1 that lets you add and modify players in the current event and access the rating list This menu item will be disabled until you have selected a current event 1 1 Browse The first page of the notebook the Browse page contains a grid listing the players along with various information about each player The grid works like Cantor s other grids see Section 9 on page 77 The columns of the A Browse Players Po eme rata SETS B 5002 James Dav
70. on of focus then the current event is also highlighted When you click the OK button to close the window Cantor will update the main window so it displays the name date and results of the current event If you click the Cancel button then Cantor will not change which event was current You can also double click the row of an event to select it as the current event and close the window The columns of the event grid display information that you can also view on the Edit notebook page Each column is described below when we describe the Edit page 2 SELECT CURRENT 39 Edit Event Name Ratings Central Open Date June 8 2004 Y Match format State VA Y Country USA Club Virginia Table Tennis Association Clear Unrated players Status Modified v Submitted Mean 1400 Standard deviation 300 Save Cancel FIGURE 2 Edit event page The Add Event button switches to the Edit page to let you add a new event The Edit Event button switches to the Edit page for the currently selected event you can also click the Edit notebook tab Press Ctrl Del to delete the event that is highlighted The grid must have the focus for you to delete an event Cantor will not let you delete an event if there are any match results entered for the event or if you have submitted the event and made any modifications to the event since you ve submitted it If you want to delete such an event first delete all the results
71. r websites in their instructions for setting up your email client If you use Eudora as your email client you can find the SMTP server name in Tools gt Op tions gt Sending Mail If you only use webmail then you probably won t find the SMTP server name in your email settings If you can t find the SMTP server name anywhere ask your ISP 3 SET UP INTERNET 29 e Set Up Internet Your email address davidmarcusGalum mit edu Submission method Email Email SMTP server smtp rcn com SMTP port 25 Use authentication FIGURE 2 Set up Internet window Enter your SMTP port in the SMTP port field The standard ports for SMTP are 25 and 587 If your ISP doesn t tell you the port that they use for their SMTP server try both of them both one or neither may work Some ISPs have their SMTP servers set up to use authentication i e to require a username and password If your ISP uses SMTP authentication check the Use authentication check box Then enter your account username and password in the Username and Password fields If the SMTP server supports TLS then check the Use TLS check box if you check this check box but the server does not support TLS Cantor probably won t notice the error TLS encrypts the communication with the server so your password is not sent in clear text If you aren t sure whether your ISP uses SMTP authentication try it first without authentication since most ISPs don t use it Note that j
72. ral rating list then you can use IDs from Rat ings Central USATT or TT Australia Note that it is up to event directors to enter the USATT and TT Australia IDs into the Ratings Central database so these values may be missing for some players on the Ratings Central rating list If the only rating list that you have imported is from USATT then you can only use IDs from USATT since these are the only IDs on the USATT rating list Type the filename of the file of IDs in the D list field Include the path to the folder where the file is Alternatively click on the button at the right of the field to browse for the file Click the Import button to import the players If any players cannot be im ported Cantor will display a window listing the IDs that could not be imported and the reason The possible reasons are s Bad value for ID The ID value is not an integer or not in the correct range 4 PRINT 51 Print Player Lists Sorted by vi Name v Rating Cancel FIGURE 6 Print lists window Rating Unrated Prior Name 1827432 James David H 2445 43 O Neill Sean Patrick FIGURE 7 Player list sorted by name s Already a player in event with ID s ID not found on rating list s More than one player on rating list with ID So it isn t clear which player should be imported s ID from a different organization conflicts with a player in event The player was found on the rating list but the record for the player in the rat
73. resize drag the vertical line in the header that separates two columns To reorder drag the header for the column to where you want it You can sort the grid on a column by clicking the button to the right in the column header Not all columns have the button You can only sort on columns that do have the button The column that the grid is currently sorted on will display a downward pointing arrowhead in the button Columns with buttons will also have an underlined letter in the column header This indicates the accelerator key that you can press to sort on the column These accelerator keys work like other accelerator keys in that you will have to also press Alt while pressing the accelerator key if the control that currently has the focus responds to letter keys The sort order is decreasing for ratings and increasing for everything else In a grid Up moves up one row Down moves down one row PgUp moves up the number of rows in one screenful PgDn moves down the number of rows in one screenful Ctrl Home and Ctrl PgUp scroll to the beginning Ctrl End and Ctrl PgDn scroll to the end Ctrl Up moves to the first row displayed in the window Ctrl Down moves to the last row displayed in the window Left scrolls the display left one grid column Right scrolls the display right one grid column Ctrl Left scrolls the display left one screenful minus one column Ctrl Right scrolls the display right one screenful minus one colu
74. ro gram folder e g C Program Files x86 RatingsCentral Cantor and places the executable Cantor exe User s Manual Cantor pdf sample rating list SampleRatingList csv sample club list SampleClubList csv license file License txt OpenSSL files libeay32 dll ssleay32 dll these files are only needed if you check the Cantor gt Set Up Internet gt Email gt Use TLS check box read me file ReadMe txt and a file detailing the changes in each version VersionHistory txt in the program folder It adds Cantor and the User s Manual to the Start menu and optionally to the desktop That s all that the installation program does Note that the sample rating list and club list files are just samples they do not contain real players or clubs Their only purpose is to let you work through the overview section Do not use them when running a real event that you will submit to Ratings Central 13 14 1 INTRODUCTION When you start Cantor it will create the following set of database files in the database folder Club nx1 Configuration nx1 Event nx1 Player nx1 RatingList nx1 Result nx1 and Submission nx1 It will also create an nxTrans cfg file The nxTrans cfg file is used by the database library that Cantor uses but the file is not essential If it is erased it will be recreated The Club nx1 and RatingList nx1 files only contain the data from whatever club list and rating list that you ve imported Also it is possib
75. rs window Note that if you create an event and add players to it but never add any results to it then Cantor will never submit it So for example you could create a dummy event containing the members of your club and copy the players from this dummy event to each new event that your club runs 3 Import The Players gt Import menu item brings up a window Figure 5 that lets you import players from the rating list into the current event The menu item will be disabled until you have selected a current event and have imported a rating list You specify the players to import by providing a text file containing IDs The file must have each ID on its own line Blank lines are ignored as are leading and trailing spaces and tabs You can construct this file in many ways Possibilities include the following You could keep or create a list of players in Excel or Microsoft Access then write the IDs to a file e g Save As Text or copy them into a text editor such as Notepad You could open the Ratings Central rating list in Excel sort and filter it to make it more manageable mark the players who are coming to your event sort them to the top or filter to select just them then copy the IDs to Notepad You could copy a list of players from a page on the Ratings Central website then edit the list to contain the IDs that you want Set the Organization drop down list to the organization that assigned the IDs If you have imported a Ratings Cent
76. rtcut key for the button is Ctrl N This shortcut key also works from the Browse page of the notebook See Section 1 3 on page 47 for more information on the rating list browser 1 2 2 IDs Enter the player s Ratings Central ID number in the Ratings Central field If the player does not have a Ratings Central ID because this is the first time that the player has played then leave the field blank The button to the right of the Ratings Central field brings up the rating list browser positioned on the player whose Ratings Central ID is closest to the value in the Ratings Central field The button will be disabled unless you ve imported a Ratings Central rating list The shortcut key for the button is Ctrl R Enter the player s USATT ID number in the USATT field Ratings Central will save the USATT ID in its database to help identify the player but does not use the USATT ID for any other purpose If the player does not have a USATT ID then leave the field blank The button to the right of the USATT field brings up the rating list browser positioned on the player whose USATT ID is closest to the value in the USATT field The button will be disabled unless you ve imported a rating list The shortcut key for the button is Ctrl U Enter the player s TT Australia ID number in the TT Australia field Ratings Central will save the TT Australia ID in its database to help identify the player but does not use the TT Australia ID for any other purpos
77. rted a club list see Section 1 on page 33 To clear the club click the Clear button 3 SUBMIT 41 submit Events ry 11 21 2004 9 54 31 pm Ratings Central Open rrr FIGURE 3 Submit events window 2 2 8 Unrated Prior The Mean and Standard deviation fields let you specify the mean and standard deviation of the playing strength of unrated players in the event You must set both of these See Chapter 9 on page 59 for advice on what to put in these fields 2 2 9 Status The Modified check box indicates whether you ve made any mod ifications to the event its players or its results that require that the event be sub mitted or resubmitted This is an informational check box i e you can t change it If the Modified check box is checked then Cantor will submit this event the next time you submit events The Submitted check box indicates whether the event has ever been submitted This is also an informational check box The Submit failed check box lets you tell Cantor that the previous submission of the event didn t work i e wasn t received by Ratings Central If you check this box then Cantor will resubmit the event the next time that you submit events You will need to re check any player New personal info check boxes that were checked in the prior submission See Section 1 2 12 on page 46 for more information on the New personal info check box For more information on submitting events see Section 3 and Chapter 10 on page 63
78. shortcut keys The underlined letters in the table show how the shortcut keys were chosen 76 C USER INTERFACE A Cantor 7 2 Players Events Lists Cantor Ratings Central Open Sunday November 20 2011 7 Winner Rating Winner Name Loser Rating Loser Name Score 1 2445143 O Neill Sean Patrick 1827232 James David H 7 4 10 2 2 1827432 James David H 2445 43 o Neill Sean Patrick 9 10 11 7 8 Ctrl Del Delete Result New Result Modify Result Print Results C Users David Documents Cantor FIGURE 2 The Modify Result button is the default button Each submenu has one item in bold If you double click a main menu item then the submenu item in bold will be selected 7 Enter Key Most windows have a default button that will be selected if you press Enter even if the button does not have the focus For example in Figure 2 the Modify Result button is the default button If there is no default button and the field that has the focus does not respond to the Enter key then the Enter key moves the focus to the next field If a button has the focus then the Enter key always clicks the button 8 Accelerator Keys Most labels have an underlined letter If you don t see the underlines see Section 6 on the preceding page for how to tell Windows to show them You can press Alt plus the key corresponding to the letter to move the focus to the associated control If the control you are
79. st 50 IDs 45 46 63 Import Lists 17 33 48 Players 50 incremental search 44 48 57 77 installation 13 journal file 85 Keep 34 Last Played 48 Left 75 77 80 libeay32 dll 13 License txt 13 life membership 48 list box 78 List database folder 28 49 Lists 33 log into website see website login Loser 20 54 main menu 53 75 main window 17 20 37 38 43 47 53 75 77 Match format event 40 63 result 54 match result see result Mean event unrated prior 41 player unrated prior 47 63 mistakes 67 Modified 41 42 Modify Players 17 43 49 77 Modify Result 54 77 78 multiple events on same date 37 83 multiple day events 37 n 1 85 Name event 17 40 player 45 46 63 Print 51 navigator bar 39 80 Never 48 New For duplicates keep 34 New personal info 41 42 46 63 New Player 48 New Result 20 40 54 78 No score 54 notation 15 notebook tab 80 nx1 14 nxTrans cfg 14 Old 34 OpenSSL 13 Organization 50 overview 17 24 Overwrite Player 48 Password Director 28 Email 29 Web proxy server 30 personal information 63 PgDn 77 80 PgUp 77 80 player Club see Club player Country see Country player deleting 44 Name see Name player State see State player player list 51 Player nx1 14 Players 43 Modify see Modify Players Port 30 INDEX 89 Postal code 46 63 Previous Submissions 42 Print 47 51 Print Results 47
80. t Events 41 Submit failed 41 42 74 Submitted 42 Submitted 41 74 Tab 54 74 Test 30 thumb 73 77 title bar 73 Today 17 79 TT Australia ID see ID TT Australia two events on same date see multiple events on same date Unrated prior event 40 59 player 46 47 59 Up 75 77 80 Update info from rating list 49 USATT ID see ID USATT USATT membership 48 Use authentication 29 Use proxy server 30 Use TLS 13 29 user interface 73 80 persistence 73 Username Email 29 Web proxy server 30 INDEX VersionHistory txt 13 Visit Website 31 website login 31 window closing 73 resizing 73 Winner 20 54 write caching 85 Your address 28 Zermelo Ernst 69
81. t the ory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardi nal numbers He also advanced the study of trigonometric series Ernst Zermelo 1871 1953 was also a famous mathematician who developed an axiom system to lend structure to Cantor s set theory Cantor the software system can handle results from any sort of table tennis event structured or not while Zermelo the other software system that you can use with Ratings Central handles tournaments that are more structured 69 APPENDIX B Screen Resolution and Font Size Windows lets you set the screen resolution via Control Panel gt Display gt Set tings gt Screen resolution this is for Windows XP in other versions of Windows the setting may be in a different place Cantor will work at any screen resolution but the higher the resolution the smaller Cantor s text will be Windows also lets you set the font size e g large or small fonts via Control Panel gt Display gt Settings gt Screen resolution gt Advanced gt General gt DPI setting again this is the Windows XP location However Cantor will ignore this setting 71 APPENDIX C User Interface This chapter gives detailed information on Cantor s user interface i e how to use the keyboard and mouse with Cantor 1 Persistence Cantor remembers the position and size of all windows the size and order of grid columns which column each grid is sorted on and the select
82. ther words this field lets you set which match format the New Result window starts out with when you click the New Result button See Section 1 on page 54 for more information 2 2 5 State Set the State field to the state for the USA or province for Canada where the event is located For countries other than the USA and Canada the field will be disabled Cantor also uses the event state as the default state when adding new players to the event When you add a new event Cantor initializes the state to the state of the current event 2 2 6 Country Set the Country field to the country where the event is located Cantor also uses the country as the default country when adding new players to the event When you add a new event Cantor initializes the country to the country of the current event 2 2 7 Club The Club box shows the club that is sponsoring the event More than one club can sponsor an event but Cantor only lets you set one club for the event To add another club you must go to the Ratings Central website and log in see Section 5 on page 31 When you add a new event Cantor initializes the club to the club of the current event An event does not have to have a sponsoring club Cantor won t let you type the name of a club in the club field To set or change the club click on the Change button to bring up the club browser The club browser is described in Chapter 8 on page 57 The Change button will only be enabled if you have impo
83. tor it looks for the database files in the current folder For example if you double click on a file with an exe extension then the current folder will be the folder containing the exe file If you double click on a Windows shortcut e g an item on the desktop that has a little arrow on the bottom left or an item in the Start menu then the current folder is determined by the shortcut To see or change the current folder that the shortcut is using right click the shortcut and select Properties The current folder is the folder listed in the Start in field You may also specify the database folder via a command line parameter You can do this by typing it in a command prompt or bat file or including itin the Target field in a shortcut s properties A command line parameter takes precedence over the current folder You can use the special command line parameter appdata to have Cantor put the database folder in a subfolder of your application data folder e g C Users YourUserName AppData Roaming RatingsCentral Cantor Cantor s installation program puts the appdata command line parameter in the shortcuts on the desktop and in the Start menu So you can move the data base files to any folder you wish as long as you update the shortcuts by removing appdata from the Target field and setting the Start in field to the new folder If you accidentally delete the shortcuts you can create a shortcut by right cli
84. tton to download and import the lists Figure 2 shows the window that Cantor will display while downloading Once the lists are downloaded Cantor will automatically import them In addition to importing the lists Cantor will place text copies of the lists in the RatingList csv and ClubList csv files in the list database folder see Section 2 2 on page 28 See Section 1 2 for more information on these two files If you connect to the Web via a proxy server you will need to enter your proxy server information in Cantor gt Set Up Internet 1 2 Manual Download To download a rating list and a club list manually go to the Ratings Central website and log in see Section 5 on page 31 Click the Version 2 link that is just below where it says Download zipped table tennis rating and club lists This will download the two lists in a single zip archive Save the file You will need any unzip program to extract the two lists from the archive If you have Windows XP Vista or 7 then you don t need a separate unzip program because they have built in support for unzipping files There are dozens of unzip programs available on the Web Extract the contents of the zip file You should now have two files RatingList csv and ClubList csv These are CSV files CSV stands for comma separated val ues A CSV file is just a text file with commas separating the values Excel understands CSV files so you can open them in Excel if you wish
85. ults for the current event The button will be disabled until you ve added at least two players to the current event Select the winner in the Winner left list box and select the loser in the Loser right list box In addition to using the mouse or cursor keys you can also type the player s name See Section 11 on page 78 for more information Set the Match format field to the format for the match Choices are 2 of 3 3 of 5 4 of 7 5 of 9 and Games the Games choice is explained below Cantor initializes the Match format field to the match format you selected for the event Enter the score for each game in the Score fields Only enter the number of points that the loser of each game got If the winner of the match lost a particular game prefix that game s score with a minus sign For example if the scores for a match are 11 5 10 12 11 8 11 3 enter 5 10 8 and 3 If you don t know the score for a result but you know the number of games won and lost you can select Games in the Match format field If you don t know the score at all you can check the No score check box Unlike most windows the result window does not have a default button There fore the Enter key will behave more like the Tab key The result window is special in that when you press the Enter key Cantor tries to be smart about which field or button to move to next If you press Enter and
86. ust because you have a username and password doesn t mean your ISP uses SMTP authentication You always have a username and password so that you can access the POP incoming mail server If your ISP account doesn t provide an SMTP server or you don t know how to configure Cantor to use it then use the Web submission method 3 2 Web Proxy Server Usually you don t have to set any Web parameters However some Internet connections use a proxy server to access the Web It is 30 3 CANTOR MENU Information 1 Test sent Ctrl C Copy Message FIGURE 3 Test sent window From Ratings Central Subject Ratings Central test received To David Marcus Date Tue 29 Jul 2003 23 13 56 0400 Submitted July 29 2003 10 17 pm Status Test We received the test you sent Ratings Central www ratingscentral com FIGURE 4 Test reply email unlikely that a home connection uses a proxy server but it is moderately common for companies to use proxy servers Cantor uses the Web proxy server parameters when downloading rating and club lists and when submitting events to Ratings Central using the Web submission method You can find whether you are using a proxy server by looking at your Inter net options in Windows Control Panel gt Internet Options gt Connections gt LAN Settings gt Proxy server If the Use a proxy server for your LAN check box is checked then you should check Cantor s Use proxy server check box and copy t
87. win the bet but you lose 2 if you lose the bet Odds of 2 1 mean that you win 2 if you win but you lose 1 if you lose For example suppose you assign a prior mean of 1200 and a prior standard deviation of 100 to a player Then you should be willing to bet at 1 2 odds that the player is really between 1100 and 1300 and you should be willing to bet at 2 1 odds that the player is really less than 1100 or more than 1300 Equivalently you should believe that there is a 2 3 chance that the player is really between 1100 and 1300 and a 3 chance that the player is really less than 1100 or more than 1300 Here are some very rough guidelines If you know an unrated player extremely well e g they ve been playing at your club every week for a couple of years then you might use a prior standard deviation of 75 If you only know a player moder ately well e g they ve come to your club a few times and played several matches with players of a similar level then you might use a prior standard deviation of 125 If you know very little about a player e g you had the player hit with a rated player of a similar level for five minutes then you might use a prior standard deviation of 200 If a player has a USATT rating then that is a source of information However USATT ratings vary widely in their accuracy so it is best to check that a player s USATT rating seems reasonable using your own knowledge of the player USATT ratings have been driftin
88. wo or three days it makes sense to consider all the matches as being from a single event If you play matches at your club several nights during the week you could consider the week s matches to be a single event Or you could treat each day s matches as a different event Itis up to you Ratings Central will calculate slightly different ratings depending on how you group the matches into events Bunching up matches should generally improve the accuracy of the ratings In particular if you have a large number of unrated players it is generally better if you can bunch up more matches into a single event However all the matches in a single event should be from a reasonably short span of time i e a few weeks If you aren t sure what to do please contact us for advice see http www ratingscentral com Problems php for our email address Even if your event lasts more than one day you can still submit the event each day When you resubmit the event on subsequent days Ratings Central will recalculate the ratings taking into account all the matches in the event If you submit an event or tournament then you should include all matches that were played in the event or tournament i e don t just submit the matches played by your club members for example Your tournament can if you wish have individual events that count for ratings and also individual events that do not count for ratings in which case you would only submit the matches in the
89. y a good idea to set the prior mean and standard deviation for as many unrated players as you can However you should only set the prior mean and standard deviation for an unrated player if you have additional information about that player The additional information can be any information other than the player s match wins and losses in the event Ratings Central sees those For example you might know the player from before the event or you might watch the 59 60 9 UNRATED PLAYERS player play their matches or you might look at how many points the player scored in their matches If a player is different from the general population of unrated players at the event e g much better or much worse perhaps because they are very young then it would be an especially good idea to set the player s prior mean and standard deviation If many or most of the players in your event are unrated then it is especially helpful to the rating system if you can set the prior mean and standard deviation for as many of the unrated players as you can The prior standard deviation for a player measures how sure you are that you know that player s playing strength You should be willing to bet at 1 2 odds that the player s playing strength is within one standard deviation of the mean and you should be willing to bet at 2 1 odds that the player s playing strength is more than one standard deviation from the mean Odds of 1 2 mean that you win 1 if you
90. you ve entered a complete result Cantor moves you to the OK button Click the OK button to store the result Cantor will clear the window but leave it up so you can enter another result If you do not have any more results you can press Enter to select the Cancel button which is for the moment the default button to close the window Cantor will display the new results in the main window s grid 2 Modify Result To modify a result that you ve already entered either double click the result or select the result in the grid and click the Modify Result button This brings up 3 PRINT RESULTS ul ul Rating Winner Rating Loser Score 1 1827 32 James David H 2445 43 O Neill Sean Patrick 9 9 0 9 2 2445 43 O Neill Sean Patrick 1827432 James David H 2 10 3 0 FIGURE 3 Result list the result window the same window you use for entering new results Correct the information for the result and click the OK button 3 Print Results Click the Print Results button to print a list of all the results in the current event see Figure 3 The list shows the same information that is displayed in the result grid The results will be in the same order as they are in the grid So to change the printed order change the order in the grid by clicking the button in the header of a grid column CHAPTER 8 Club Browser The club browser Figure 1 lets you view the club list and select the club of a player or event You can

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