Replay search tools are not powerful enough

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I looked into it yesterday. It's neither simple nor straightforward with the way our api works internally and the different ratings that could affect a single game.

Is there no way simple way to alter a function to filter greater than min rating in game?

I've found the search tools to work pretty badly in general. Searching for a replay that includes more than one playername, for example, hasn't worked for me in ages. Search has also been very very slow for as long as I can remember.

SQL database are not build for flexible queries on 1:n data (1 game n players).

It's also not designed to run fuzzy text search (a map or mod name where i don't know exactly where whitespace and apostrophes are).

But: most software can't. Look at this forum: it's running on a document oriented db but it has the same search limitations.

Most of the smaller applications in the world behave like that.

Search for people that only play 2k+ avg, thats the easiest solution i found

And you can search by game name, look for games with things in the title like "2k+" "2000+" "1.9k" etc.

Is the replay database schema published somewhere? The search function is pretty limited, but I can write my own SQL search filter. I have no idea what the available fields are. I'd need the table layouts.

Nvm, I found it!
https://faforever.github.io/db/relationships.html
Hopefully, this is up to date.
Not sure I can do a table join in the client. I need to figure out how to run an arbitrary query so I can play around with it.

For the OP's problem, searching for high-rated players is about the best you can really do.
There probably are not many 4v4 games where everyone is 2000+. There just aren't many players at that level.

@PViddy The problem can never be solved with a SQL join.

What happens in the API is this: perform the join, then filter.

So first you join a game and get a result like:

And now you filter rating>=2000 on all records of that table. So the result would be this:

It's easy to find a game where on participant matches a criterium.
But there is no row-based filter in SQL that could require all players to be >=2k.
For that you need either SQL subselects (which is not supported by our API logic for technical reasons) or we calculate somehting like min/max/mean rating during fetching the game in the API.

The latter is generally possible, but not so simple with our API logic, because a game participant has potentially multiple leaderboards, so it need to return these KPIs per leaderboard (even though in practice each game right now has only one leaderboard).