tracker v2.5

--PLAYER TRACKING HELP SCRIPTS

function getScore(playername,scorename)
    local result,message = commands.scoreboard("players","add",playername,scorename,0)
    --if result == false then print(result,message[1]) end
    if result then
        local wordpattern = "[^, ]+"
        local words = {}
        for word in string.gmatch(message[1], wordpattern) do table.insert(words,word) end
        local scoreobj = {name=scorename,count=tonumber(words[#words])}
        --print(message[1])
        --print("Score: "..scoreobj.name.." : "..scoreobj.count)
        return scoreobj
    end

    return {name=score,count=0}
end

--for player name, create a lua object of all scoreboard scores
local function tallyScores(name,boards)
    local tally = {}
    for i,board in ipairs(boards) do
        table.insert(tally,getScore(name,board))
    end
    return tally
end

--provide a list of reoccuring strings and return a list with unique strings and a count
function tallyTable(list)
    local tally = {}
    for _,item in ipairs(list) do
        if tally[item] then
            tally[item] = tally[item] +1
        else
            tally[item] = 1
        end
    end
    return tally
end

local function printRecord(record)
    print(record.name)
    for i, score in ipairs(record.scores) do
        print("-->  "..score.name..":  "..score.count)
    end
end

--creates a list of all scores sorted by player
local function tallyPlayers(playerlist,boards)
    local results = {}

    for i, player in ipairs(playerlist) do
        table.insert(results,{name=player.name,scores=tallyScores(player.name,boards)})
    end
    return results
end

local function createTotals(tallies)
    local results = {}
    for i, record in ipairs(tallies) do
        local count = 0
        for j, score in ipairs(record.scores) do
            if score.count > 0 then
                count = count +1
            end
        end
        table.insert(results,{name=record.name,total=count})
    end
    return results
end