Question

I am creating a hobby soccer stats site. Here are some scores:

Player1 – Player2

• 5:1
• 5:2
• 0:4
• 0:1

For player1 I am trying to find the best and worst score with php. I tried a mysql_fetch_array with

$player1max = $row['MAX(player1)']; 

however I get the score 5:2. However the correct score would be 5:1 as in this case player1 received only one goal.

The same happens with

$player1min = $row['MIN(player1)'];

I get 0:1, but I should get 0:4 (because getting 4 goals is worse then 1).

Answer 1

Just make the counter-goals extract from the make-goals and the result is either best or worst.

Example:

• 5:1 becomes 4 (5-1)
• 5:2 becomes 3 (5-2)
• 0:4 becomes -4 (0-4)
• 0:1 becomes -1 (0-1)

That way:
Worst score = -4 (0:4)
Best score = 4 (5:1)