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One of the challenges with resorting a crosstable based on tournament results is that you have to renumber the pairing numbers to match the new order, otherwise it in any crosstable with more than a few players it becomes difficult to find an opponent.

Currently that renumbering is done when the crosstable is uploaded to MSA. There is an option to show the crosstable in the order in which it was uploaded, that’s used by at least one of our online partners because they resort the crosstable into tie break order before uploading it. A tournament can be set to not resort the crosstable, but that’s currently a flag that only US Chess staff can modify.

I think Leago is aware of this issue, but I do not know what they’re planning to do about it yet.

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How much of a challenge is that? WinTD has an (internal) label number field, which gets reset when anything causes a re-sort of the contents. (Either a new method of sort or a change to scores or whatever that would affect the sort order). The label number field is used to label the individuals, and to generate the x-table result code.

The first below is the standard cross table sort (by score then by pairing number/rating) and the second is the same information sorted by name.

Yes, absolutely never ever should D7 mean anything other than a draw vs the player on the 7 line.;

 No.            Name             Team  Gr  Rate    Pts  Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3
    1 Robinson, Dan             WZGRN   5    1069   2.5  D7  W12   W3
    2 Greenwood, Ryan           WZOAK   5           2.5  W6  D11   W8
    3 Johnson, Scott            WZOAK   5    1403   2.0  W9   W5   L1
    4 Brown, William            WZOAK   5    1155   2.0 W11   W7   L5
    5 Whiteley, Xavier          WZPLY   5    1113   2.0 W10   L3   W4
    6 Brown, Morgan             WZPLY   4     987   2.0  L2  W10   W9
    7 Smith, John               WZPLY   4           1.5  D1   L4  W11
    8 Bailey, Renee             WZGRN   5    1233   1.0 -H-  -H-   L2
    9 Anderson, Sarah           WZGRN   4     886   1.0  L3  W12   L6
   10 Lewis, Amy                WZGRN   4           1.0  L5   L6  W12
   11 Stevens, Kevin            WZGRN   5           0.5  L4   D2   L7
   12 Martin, Kyle              WZOAK   5     754   0.0  L9   L1  L10

 No.            Name             Team  Gr  Rate    Pts  Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3
    1 Anderson, Sarah           WZGRN   4     886   1.0  L6   W8   L3
    2 Bailey, Renee             WZGRN   5    1233   1.0 -H-  -H-   L5
    3 Brown, Morgan             WZPLY   4     987   2.0  L5   W7   W1
    4 Brown, William            WZOAK   5    1155   2.0 W11  W10  L12
    5 Greenwood, Ryan           WZOAK   5           2.5  W3  D11   W2
    6 Johnson, Scott            WZOAK   5    1403   2.0  W1  W12   L9
    7 Lewis, Amy                WZGRN   4           1.0 L12   L3   W8
    8 Martin, Kyle              WZOAK   5     754   0.0  L1   L9   L7
    9 Robinson, Dan             WZGRN   5    1069   2.5 D10   W8   W6
   10 Smith, John               WZPLY   4           1.5  D9   L4  W11
   11 Stevens, Kevin            WZGRN   5           0.5  L4   D5  L10
   12 Whiteley, Xavier          WZPLY   5    1113   2.0  W7   L6   W4
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Adding a crosstable sort option was more work than US Chess wanted to do at the time that MSA was brought online in 2003. Proposals to rewrite MSA were never approved.