Soon it will be one year since Aligulac was started, and although I didn't plan the timing, I'm still happy to introduce our perhaps most-requested feature so far: the API.

For details, please refer to this page. We now enter a period of beta testing. During this period, please understand that we may remove features without warning if we find that they can be abused. Once we release the full version, the URL will change and the feature set will remain as constant as we can possibly allow.

If we have previously designed API-like functionality for you, please migrate your application over to this interface as soon as possible. We will no longer guarantee the long-term survival of these other patchwork solutions.

The database will remain available for download, which is recommended over the API for experimental users with heavy query loads.

Please attribute our website if you make use of this anywhere. It would make us so happy. :-)

We are aware of the current server problems. It is caused by high memory usage during times of high load.

Hopefully we will be back at full capacity soon.

In the meantime, if it keeps failing, let us know @Sc2Aligulac.

Welcome to the «new» Aligulac! Yes, I know. It looks rather like the old one. I hope that the changes we do have was worth the wait.

• Player, event and rating list pages now have some more info shown on top in a tabbed box.
• Player rating charts now show the number of games played per period.
• Predictions (now under the inference menu) for single matches (shows more data) and proleague matches (you can now simulate ace matches as they should be) have been improved.
• The team transfer page looks better than ever before.
• You can now navigate directly to any submenu item by hovering over the relevant entry. (This is a bit tricky though… they're a bit small.)
• The team list now shows the average rating of the top five players, as well as the number of players.
• Many small things…

Mostly, the exciting improvements are under the hood:

• Now using Python 3.3, Django 1.6 and PostgreSQL.
• The event hierarchy table has been very much improved and should now be much more stable and fast. However, this has introduced a bit of difficulty with regards to sorting. For this reason you might notice that matches are sorted in a funny order sometimes. I will fix this, don't worry.
• Tons of bugfixes.

I have decided to remove the compare feature, since it was pretty dull and mostly superseded by the match prediction page. I can add the p-value there instead, if anyone's interested.

In the beginning, there will likely be some problems and bugs owing to the rewrite. Please feel free to report issues here.