I’m not really a programmer, but can you create a table with awards and a function to give a prize to a player?
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Alright I will try this and tell you if it works. 
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Thank you so much right now! 
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How would I know when iterating if the player is the highest stat and then sort them into 3 winners with the highest stats.
create a variable set to 0, and update it whenever a player has a higher stat than the variable. By the end of the loop you should have the player with the highest stat
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How would I get all 3 though and not just the highest.
You would repeat this 3 times to store the highest players in a table, basically a nested loop
Can’t you put them all in a table, and call table.sort(tableOfLeaderboard, function(a, b) return a > b end)?
You can create a dictionary, creating new key,values for every player iteration {“Player” = Stat}, then create an Array and iterate over your dictionary with a variable finding the highest stat and when you find the highest stat link it to the player with it an remove that player from the dictionary and add their name to the array and repeat that 3 times.
There is probably an easier method but this is how I would do it
You can’t sort a dictionary, so that wouldn’t work
That’s not what I said, read again.
whatever, my bad. I’m already writing a script for the player anyway so ehhh.
Also you can sort a dictionary just requires extra steps (if all values are numbers)
local function FindTopPlayers()
local One = -1
local Two = -1
local Three = -1
local Plr1, Plr2, Plr3
for _, plr in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if One < plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value then
Plr3 = Plr2
Three = Two
Plr2 = Plr1
Two = One
Plr1 = plr
One = plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value
elseif Two < plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value then
Plr3 = Plr2
Three = Two
Plr2 = plr
Two = plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value
elseif Three < plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value then
Plr3 = plr
Three = plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value
end
end
--Now you have 3 values for the top three players: Plr1, Plr2, Plr3
end
FindTopPlayers()
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Would this work?
It is returning nil for all positions in the winner’s array though. Maybe I messed something up.
local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
local winners = {}
local highest = 0
for i=1, 3, 1 do
for i, v in pairs(players) do
if v.leaderstats.KOs.Value>highest then
highest = v.leaderstats.KOs.Value
table.insert(winners, v)
table.remove(players, i)
end
end
end
print(winners[1], winners[2], winners[3])
It will say nil if you have no value in the leaderstats, if you add value then run it again it works and says their name.
One problem I can’t seem to figure out, when I’m trying to send the name somewhere else like a StringValue it wont send it says ‘nil’ do you know why this could be?
local function FindTopPlayers()
local One = -1
local Two = -1
local Three = -1
local Plr1, Plr2, Plr3 = "","","" --Gave them the default value of an empty string, so it isn't nil
for _, plr in ipairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if One < plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value then
Plr3 = Plr2
Three = Two
Plr2 = Plr1
Two = One
Plr1 = plr.Name
One = plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value
elseif Two < plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value then
Plr3 = Plr2
Three = Two
Plr2 = plr.Name
Two = plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value
elseif Three < plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value then
Plr3 = plr.Name
Three = plr.leaderstats.KOs.Value
end
end
--Now you have 3 values for the top three players: Plr1, Plr2, Plr3
end
FindTopPlayers()
I made it store the usernames of the players instead of the player object.
try now
Try this? Just wrote it because I had nothing better to do. It looks very intimidating but it’s fine I promise lol
Also please try to learn from this and not just copy + paste it
local getTop = function(statName:string,amount:number)
local toSort,toReturn,total = {},{},0 -- define variables
for _,player in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
-- check and make sure each player has leaderstats & the required value
if player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats") and player.leaderstats:FindFirstChild(statName) then
-- add this to the table we will sort next
table.insert(toSort,{
player = player,
value = player.leaderstats:FindFirstChild(statName).Value
})
end
end
table.sort(toSort,function(a,b)
-- sort the table by highest to lowest value
return(a.value > b.value)
end)
for _,data in pairs(toSort) do
-- check all the newly sorted values
if total <= amount then -- make sure they're in the top (whatever number you passed for amount)
total += 1
table.insert(toReturn,data.player)
else
-- not needed to really continue any more so we'll break it
break
end
end
-- Tada! (it'll be nil if the place doesn't exist ftr)
return toReturn
end
local top3 = getTop("KOs",3) --> stat name & amount you want to get
print(top3[1],top3[2],top3[3]) --> boom
I did fix up your script and commented on it
local function GetTop3()
local players = game.Players:GetChildren() -- Getting the players
local winners = {nil, nil, nil} -- Creating the winners list
local iterValue = 3
if #players < 3 then
iterValue = #players -- For a playercount of less than 3
end
local highest -- Creating the highest val variable
for i = 1, iterValue do -- iterating for 3 (or less) players
highest = 0
for j, player in pairs(players) do -- Iterating the players
if player.leaderstats.KOs.Value> highest and not table.find(winners, player) then
-- Checking if the player has a higher score and is not in the winners already
highest = player.leaderstats.KOs.Value -- updating the highest score
winners[i] = player -- updating the winner for that position
end
end
end
return winners -- returning the winners list
end
I called it like this and this was the output
local winners = GetTop3()
for i = 1, #winners do
if winners[i] then
print(winners[i], winners[i].leaderstats.KOs.Value)
end
end
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