Yaml files dummy /leaderboard.

Hello! I have a problem which ive been trying to figure out a way to get around, but I can't.
So, I have a yaml file for each user, with kills: <amt>.
I need a leaderboard for my server to add more of a challenge, E.G.
1. Pizza Kills: 5
2. bob kills: 3
3. notch kills: 1
How I'm trying to do it is by matching up the killer on the death event with the top 5 places.
if killer has more points than notch, set killer to 3.
But I'm unsure what to do before the leaderboard is there? ofc I could just set them all null, but when someone gets a kill it wont check it at all... since its null, or will null have a config file with its kills?
Any help? Thanks!

 

Pizza371 I would recommend you to look into Bubble Sort. This is a Java Methods to sort the Highest Integers. And then you would just need to get the first 10 out of this list (or the last 10... But I would recommend you to sort them that the Best one is on Place one)

 

etaxi341 each player has a seperate YAML file though

 

Pizza371 I am not sure if there is a Method to get every Player that has ever been online but if not you should store all the Playernames in a players.yml. Then you need to cycle through each <player>.yml.

 

@etaxi341 Thanks!​

I'm not gonna use your method directly, I'm gonna check if the player = null or offline player = null on the leaderboard, and if it is, fill it up untill it gets to 5 people. only then can the leaderboard be seen​

Should work right? Testing now anyway ;D​