Add fields to the match API to distinguish random vs custom lobby setting

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Prolav10 messagesstarted Jul 18, 2026, 8:09 PM

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ProlavOP2 months ago(edited)

The match API returns identical data for both random and custom boards/seeds. There's currently no field to tell them apart.

This matters for goal stats and my data sheet I'm currently maintaining: a custom board can be deliberately designed to be easy making it incomparable to a randomly generated board. The same goes for set seed vs random seed.

A simple addition to the API response would be enough, something like:

"boardType": "random" / "custom"
"seedType": "random" / "custom"

This would allow stat sites to either separate random and custom boards/seeds into distinct leaderboards, or filter out custom boards/seeds entirely in stats like average goal completion time

marin2 months ago

adding next update

marin2 months ago

this will only affect new lobbies, so you will have to handle these lobbies manually

ProlavOP2 months ago

Not added yet?

marin2 months ago(edited)

Its being logged, ill update api/website in a bit

ProlavOP2 months ago

thanks, no rush

marin2 months ago

it's live @Prolav

marin2 months ago

random|set
random|custom

marin2 months ago

e.g. https://draftoutmc.com/api/stats/x/280529 and https://draftoutmc.com/api/stats/x/280530

ProlavOP2 months ago(edited)

unless I'm misunderstanding something it seems like the lobbies going all the way back to custom seeds and boards were added to lobbies have been retroactively updated in the API to include the field with accurate data. Am I missing something? It's great if this is the case tho, ill just update my db my sample size was too small, and I only fetched the last ~100 matches where the API had updated but my script wasnt fetching the new field, my bad :)