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The Letters Beast - Online!

Started by Buttonman, 27 September, 2017, 03:36:49 PM

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Magnetica

This is great, but is there a way to search it and get stats out of it, or even download and convert into Excel?

Sorry if I'm being thick.

Buttonman

Probably - the online version is read only so people can't go adding in phantom letters to boost their score (Tom Proudfoot). If my IT man Pete doesn't have a solution PM me and I'll send you an open copy to play with.


I, Cosh

Quote from: Magnetica on 28 September, 2017, 10:34:20 PM
This is great, but is there a way to search it and get stats out of it, or even download and convert into Excel?
I couldn't find a way to share the underlying Google docs spreadsheet which allowed people to filter and sort without also allowing all other edits and I couldn't be arsed trying to present it any other way, hence the current slightly shitty view.

Here's a link to a read-only version of the file, which anyone can make a personal copy of and mess around with to their heartses content.
We never really die.

Trout


Magnetica

Quote from: Trout on 30 September, 2017, 01:33:35 AM
You nerds.

It's all about the stats man. I need to see where I rank on the all time list :D


Richard

Good work, Buttonman.

However the New Year pros 2000 to 2015 are mis-numbered 1999 to 2014.

Buttonman

Quote from: Richard on 30 September, 2017, 01:36:16 PM
Good work, Buttonman.

However the New Year pros 2000 to 2015 are mis-numbered 1999 to 2014.

Like hell they are! I go by the first date given on the issue next to the Prog number. We've gone over this before!

Richard

The dates are accurate. The prog numbers are not. There wasn't a Prog 1999 in the year 1999. There was a Prog 2000 in December 1999.

I, Cosh

Quote from: Richard on 30 September, 2017, 07:47:45 PM
The dates are accurate. The prog numbers are not. There wasn't a Prog 1999 in the year 1999. There was a Prog 2000 in December 1999.
What a shambles. I picked the wrong column when I was concatenating the title to differentiate the year end Progs from their regular cousins. Fixed now.

Quote from: Trout on 30 September, 2017, 01:33:35 AM
You nerds.
Progs 1572, 1681, 2005, 2006 & 1887.
Megs 276 & 314

We never really die.

Trout

Quote from: I, Cosh on 02 October, 2017, 10:18:35 AM
Quote from: Trout on 30 September, 2017, 01:33:35 AM
You nerds.
Progs 1572, 1681, 2005, 2006 & 1887.
Megs 276 & 314

Not bad, but missing the competition win in the mid-80s.  :lol:

I, Cosh

Quote from: Trout on 03 October, 2017, 01:08:03 AM
Not bad, but missing the competition win in the mid-80s.  :lol:
I actually have a vague memory of this from rereading something a few years ago. What was the competition?

However, I'm afraid I'll have to refer your claim to our typist Senior Correspondence Recording Consultant for adjudication.
We never really die.

Trout

It was a "you be the judge" contest where you had to do an application for the academy of law. I was 15, winning in the "Y-dult" category as a runner-up, so that would have been 1985.

I won a book but it never came. In the end, my mum called up the 2000 AD offices and inquired, and they sent a Rogue Trooper Titan book with "something extra", which turned out to be Steve Dillon's autograph. It was completely thrilling to me, and is a nice memory, especially since we so recently lost Steve and, coincidentally, my lovely mum.

Buttonman

Nice story Trout but the Beast was only ever designed for Letters, Drawings, Slaine attack rooms, Mean Arena Teams and Ro-Jaws jokes - if it went to competition entries too our operatives would still be compiling when the cows come home!

Trout


Buttonman

Quote from: Trout on 06 October, 2017, 11:32:44 PM
Weeeeeeak.

It is creative input that is being celebrated - any idiot can (and does!) enter a competition!