Charazay Doctor is a manager for the CBM (Charazay Basketball Manager) game. It is developed using VC++ with the Visual Studio 2005 IDE. It is currently a beta version, there are still major things to be done for this application to become stable, yet I encourage you to give it a try. I can not go further without user interaction. I have been using it for personal use for some time now. This project will not grow unless you help. And obviously, this is only a temporary website.

How to start Charazay Doctor?

1. Log in to your Charazay account. You must provide a security code. This is a separate passkey apart from your password. This is used to communicate with the Charazay API. This code is also stored by Charazay Doctor to download your player skills, coaches info and so on and to update your team database.

2. Download the zipped executable here. It is currently hosted on Mediafire.

3. Unzip the CharazayDoctor_v1.0_Win32.zip. There you will find:

· The executable (.exe) file. Simply run it! No installer is needed!

· A CharazayDB.xml file. This will be your team database.

· An UpdateDB folder. Here team update files will be stored

· Some Unicode .dll files needed for the application to run.

4. Upon starting the executable you will be prompted to set user information. Access the Actions menu entry.

· DB Location (database location) : a find file dialog appears, select the CharazayDB.xml file

· Login: dialog pop-up

· Update Folder: a browse for folder dialog appears, select the UpdateDB folder.

5. Restart the application.

The main concepts behind my endeavor:

1. My formulas follow the manual closely. I use the concept of active skills. Height influences dribbling, footwork, rebounds. Players over 190cm gain in footwork and rebounds and lose in dribbling (linear factor). Players also have a height adequacy for each position as in the manual.

2. Weight affects speed and footwork (linearly). Players over 90kg lose speed. Players under 90kg lose footwork.

3. BMI penalties vary with position.

4. Fatigue downsides all.

5. Form influences all skills.

6. Experience gain is applied to each skill, logarithmically, so the difference between experience 0 and 3 is smaller than 12 and 15. The gain for experience 1 is 0.4 The gain for experience 10 is 2

7. Training increase: (1 + max(0, delta) * 0.03) * factor delta = coach skill – player skill the coach will bring an increase in shooting only if his shooting skills are higher than the player factor varies with age and is 0.15 for players between 15 and 19.

8. Offense gets 200 points, defense 100 for each position. Each skill gets a quota for each position based on importance, and these quotas are evenly distributed. By making an average of quotas for all positions I tried to keep average importance per skill equal, so as dribbling is not more important than speed for instance as a whole. Defense gets a slight advantage and passing a slight disadvantage.

9. I will also introduce an automatic roster selection based on efficiency (in development).

10. Charts and statistics coming soon.

11. Ability to track sold players and fired coaches.