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Everyone in the Bristol League is used to accessing their results and seeing how their performance fluctuates throughout the season. This information is invaluable to team captains. All these results year on year has been based on the Aug yearly grade. Once they all catch wind that there is now a ha...

Messrs De Coverley, Thompson and Holowczak I wonder if you could do me a favour ? The problem I have is that in Bristol for many years now, probably 10 - 15, we have taken the results and processed them with our own software, which does many things including showing weekly updated performance figure...

[quote="Ian Thompson That's a problem you'd have even if you chose not to submit mid-season results for grading[/quote] The spreadsheet runs smoothly calculating all results based on each player having One Grade - Simply updating results as I go - operating with no problem throughout the season. Now...

Yes that might save me time and solve that problem .... but then how on earth do I display/calculate all the results for the second half of the season when the spreadsheet I operate is set to calculate on a player having ONE grade throughout the course of the season. In other words "Jones" plays "Sm...

and manually adding 300 + grades to all the players on the results spreadsheet I update. That's another 3 am finish for me on a winter evening!

I can see that I will be under pressure from players in our league to have to submit half season results. It won't simply be 5 clicks on my keyboard on new years eve and all is done, I can foresee that.

I am Match Secretary/Webmaster of the Bristol League www.chessit.co.uk and at the end of the season I enter all the games for grading ( quite a considerable number ). I note that Leagues don't have to submit twice yearly but has anyone considered the implications and knock on effect that it will hav...