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Christopher Kreuzer wrote: Any more?

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not referring to "material pasted from a master spreadsheet". More the stuff that clearly has a proper database sitting behind it.

Roger de Coverly wrote:

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not referring to "material pasted from a master spreadsheet". More the stuff that clearly has a proper database sitting behind it.

Using a spreadsheet is a valid way of running a small league and could cope with monthly exports to ECF grading if the file format required by the ECF didn't differ greatly from how you would lay out a match card.

Dragoljub Sudar wrote:I'm impressed by the work done to create the above systems, but do any of them provide the facility to see all of a division's results in detail 'in stream' on the same page as the Notts website currently does (http://www.nottschess.org/2014_15/d1.html)?
I find it very irritating to have to click on each match result to see the match details.

Angus French wrote:The Croydon League system also has this.

Croydon league wrote:Note for team captains

To complete the form using the automated features, set the Division value first by selecting the input cell adjacent to the 'Division' text and then choosing a value from the drop-down list which appears. The team lists will then populate and you can set Home Team and Away Team values from their drop-down lists. Once a Home Team value has been selected, the Home team player lists will populate and so on. If a player's name is not in the appropriate drop-down list, please input their details manually and provide an estimated grade if necessary.

Defaulted boards: For a named-player default, identify the player and then set their score to �0 (def)� � note: these games will NOT be graded. For an unnamed player default, select �(default)� from the dropdown list � the score will automatically be set to 0.

The form should print on a single page and you can print a partly-completed form to take to a match.

Please save completed result forms in .xls Excel format and email to Angus French at the addresses given at the bottom of the form.

Roger de Coverly wrote:

Angus French wrote:The Croydon League system also has this.

This strikes me as an example of what I meant by a spreadsheet based system.

The question to be asked of all such systems is as to how the transmission of grading data via the local grader to the ECF works and what would streamline it, where it to be done monthly. I know that one problem can be the absence of grading codes for new players. You have to insist on the presence of grading codes to avoid ambiguous data, but as they can take a while to be issued, you can end up with your own home made temporary code, which later has to be updated.