The tennis calculator takes a set of scores as inputs and produces useful statistics based on those scores.
This calculator will used a simplified version of scoring where whoever gets to 6 games first wins the set
The Tennis Calculator takes inputs in the form of a list of points of a tennis match.
Given this list of points, it will calculate the "games", "sets" and "matches" results.
From there it can be queried about various statistics around the input matches it received.
The input will have some header lines, and then a list of points. For example:, the following would result in 2 games to "Person A":
Match: 01
Person A vs Person B
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
The first row is a match id, the second row shows who is playing against whom. After that are a series of points, where 0 is a point for the first person listed, 1 is for last person.
i.e.
| Input | Score |
|---|---|
| Match: 01 | |
| Person A vs Person B | |
| 0 | 15 - 0 |
| 1 | 15 - 15 |
| 0 | 30 - 15 |
| 1 | 30 - 30 |
| 0 | 40 - 30 |
| 0 | Game |
| 0 | 15 - 0 |
| 0 | 30 - 0 |
| 0 | 40 - 0 |
| 0 | Game |
For processing, blank lines must be ignored
Query scores for a particular match Prints who defeated whom, and the result of the sets for the match (winning player score first).
Query: Score Match <id>
Example: Score Match 01
Example output:
Person A defeated Person B
2 sets to 0
Prints a summary of games won vs lost for a particular player over the tournament
Query: Games Player <Player Name>
Example: Games Player Person A
Example output:
23 17
Running the application against the 'full_tournament.txt' file results in the following:
$ python tennis_calculator_app.py test/test_data/full_tournament.txt << EOF
Score Match 02
Games Player Person A
EOF
Person A defeated Person C
2 sets to 1
23 17
Details of tennis scoring can be found online. See here for reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_scoring_system
The variation used for this application is a best of 3 sets match, with first to 6 games wins a set.
Details as follows:
- A tennis match is split up into points, games and sets.
- Winning a game requires a person to win 4 points, but they must be ahead by at least 2 points (deuce, advantage, game)
- The first player to win 6 games wins a set. I.e:
- Players do NOT need to be ahead by 2 to win a set (6-5 finishes a set)
- There is nothing special about that final game in a set. All games are the same.
- Best of 3 sets (first to 2 sets wins).