The Letters Beast - Online!

[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]

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.

[Trout]

You nerds.

[Magnetica]

You nerds.

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

[Richard]

Good work, Buttonman.

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

[Buttonman]

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]

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.

You nerds.

Progs 1572, 1681, 2005, 2006 & 1887.
Megs 276 & 314

[Trout]

You nerds.

Progs 1572, 1681, 2005, 2006 & 1887.
Megs 276 & 314

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

[I, Cosh]

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

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.

[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]

Weeeeeeak.

[Buttonman]

Weeeeeeak.

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