Possible to use for Soccer League and World Cup?

It should work just fine.

You'll need to add the teams, weeks, and games. Pretty much what this is designed for.

Yep, right now I've only got pick the winner or use the point spread, no pick the actual score.

How does it work. Is the score used for a tiebreaker? Or do you have to hit it right on?

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In this module we have 2 types of results. (two pick boxes for winners in one game).
But For Soccer games we need at least 3 types of results - three pick boxes :
1. 1-st Team (are winner), for example when score is 3:2 or 4:3
2. No winner (draw) , for example when score is 2:2 or 3:3
3. 2-nd Team (are winner), for example when score is 3:4 or 2:3

We need another one pick box for a draw.

@uservol, that might be true, but if you are using the score technique, perhaps you wouldn't use Winner at all.
You'd just say.

Team1=2
Team2=4

Then you'd have you score diff as well as the winner.

Were you planning to use score? or just win-lose-draw?

Score - is better solution for soccer. (it will be very good)
But "win-lose-draw" i think is more simple task for you.

i want also to use the module on soccer for the la liga !

@toma, enter the teams, and let us know how it goes!

Also, if you need more timezones added, let me know. Right now there aren't many choices.

Subscribing, would be great to use on worldcup soccer! greetings, Martijn

I definitely plan to do something like response #4 in the next version for Drupal 7.

Has anyone been able to use this for the world cup structure (group stage and knockout stage)?
8 groups (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) with 4 team each, 2 teams advancing from each group creating the knockout bracket until the final (with 3rd place match).

News: just started the score differential game type branch!
Any testers?

Download the tip here:
http://bitbucket.org/jvandervort/drupal6-pickem2/downloads

Dev code looking pretty good. I'm guessing about a July release date.
It would be nice to have some testers though...

Hey, there are a lot of rounds left:) Give the dev code a try.
But yeah, I know. The programming time only shows up when it shows up...

Thanks for the list. I'll try to address each item one way or the other.

Re Timezones: At least for the other football in the US (NFL), games are played in roughly five timezones and are officially posted in one (US/Eastern). Hence the design of this module. Give me a list of the major European zones, and I'll add them. PHP doesn't really have a good way to render them (for the entire world) across different versions of PHP.

Let's number them for follow-ups.

Q1. The Pickem Global Settings should be available in /admin/settings/pickem as well (thats where I searched after installing and I guess others will do so as well)

How exactly did you search? Did you go to the /admin page and look around for something pickem related? Currently they are in their own group because we have five menu items, and the other admin items don't really relate to "settings" particularly. I like them better grouped, than spread throughout the admin arena.

Q2 Time Zones are US only.

Yes, we probably need both regional named timezones and perhaps a hour offset override. Currently we are using named zones because some schedules include both standard and daylight saving time. Picking a named zone allows the server to handle DST without changing the schedule to a DST-less hour offset.

Q3 With PHP 5.3 there are a lot of warnings like this: "warning: Parameter 1 to theme_pickem_gamesets_list() expected to be a reference, value given in ..."

Started fixing the theme functions.

Q4 Can you use date fields (http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference....) instead of textfields for datimes? This way one could enable jquery date picker and so on with additional modules

We could if there are enough interested parties. I find cutting and pasting from published schedules is easier than using a date picker.

Q5 Does the Game week really need a starting time? Can't you find the earliest game time of that week?

Yes, the week start time is the time used for locking up the picks for the week, and in some leagues people choose a date/time that doesn't necessarily match the first game start time. We could add a feature that preloads week start time from the scheduled game times though.

Q6 What is the "Spread" fields on Game entries?

It is the point spread for leagues that use the point spread in picking the winner. It is not used in leagues with the "pick the winner" or the "score differential" game types. NOTE: I usually don't enter the game score from this screen either. I use the /admin/pickem/scores/1 screen to enter the entire weeks scores on one page. I also sometimes forget where this screen is, and it takes me a while to find it again:)

Q7 In the Standings, the season is split up into "Regular" and "Playoffs". In soccer leagues, there is no playoffs at the end of the season.

Already fixed. If there are no games in weeks marked "playoff", the standings won't show "Playoffs" at all.

Q8 For the "Score Differential" League option, it would be nice to be able to change the amount of points for correct result, correct winning team, etc.

I agree. I haven't found a tidy way to implement this yet. But I expect it to come.

Cleaning up the queue.

I would like to follow up on the issue Q8: Can you tell me where I can manually change the amount of points for correct results, correct score differential and correct winner?

edit: Nevermind, found it in pickem.scoring.score.diff.inc on line 46ff.