A Wireless Score Entry and Reporting System

As an avid Scrabble player, I go to several tournaments a year. Scrabble is not exactly a spectator sport, so the only way my family knows how I'm doing is when I call. Wouldn't it be nice to enter the results using a wireless phone and post them on a Web page for all to see? That sounds like a good application for JSP and servlets!

The winner of a Scrabble tournament is the person with the most wins. In case of a tie, the winner is the one whose cumulative win-loss spread is the highest. In other words, you take the total number of points you won by in all your games and subtract the total number of points you lost by and that's the cumulative spread. Winning 500 to 400 is the same as winning 350 to ...

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