Subject: Master of Winnables -- 2018.
Date: Thu Nov 14 10:39:19 2019
User: TitanicTonys_deckofcards
Message:User: Oded789:
"What's the difference between this one and Joey's (much more frequent) winnable rankings?"
Should we clue him in, or let him figure it out?
Date: Thu Nov 14 16:29:21 2019
User: Oded789
Message:So you're using square roots instead of Joey's log2...
Not sure which one is a better measuring tool.
Date: Fri Nov 15 04:59:50 2019
User: TitanicTony
Message:It wasn't my choice. I'm just copying what free@last put in his Google spreadsheet, which was way before Joey's Competitions.
Date: Tue Jan 21 12:32:15 2020
User: joeygray
Message:Okay. So I do these twice a week postings after snarfing the current (has played a streak game in the last two weeks) info for the variants in question. However, in the above link, evidently the stats get read into that spreadsheet on demand. That’s an obvious improvement, seems to me, to the user experience.
0) Agreed? Better to just get the rankings any time?
1) I don’t know how to do that. Free, would you be interested in emailing me a short tutorial on what to do?
2) I see it comes from neocities, which i guess is a sort of hosting solution. But is there a data maximum we would hit if a lot more people clicked that link? Or more generally, is that sort of hosting ‘violating the terms of service’?
3) Denny, would pounding the server for 10 variants at a time on user demand, rather than the one variant at a time you graciously provide through the score page interface, be an unacceptable increase in server load?
Based on the answers to the above, I’d be interested in replacing my twice-weekly posting thing.
Date: Tue Jan 21 13:05:52 2020
User: free@last
Message:Joey,
I did that page as a test of using the JSON score stuff. I didn't put in all the bells and whistles (like comparing vs. the least update, keeping track of max score, etc.). With that in mind...
0) I think the benefit to the postings are that there are deadlines and a history of stuff, and that history is shared. My stuff is 100% done on a local computer. If the idea behind this stuff is competition, I think posting is better.
1) I could try to better comment the code, for sure. :) But you can just right click the page and download the code. It's all in the one file. Take a look and if you want, I can send some info.
2) Neocities is a free host site for static pages (which this is from Neocities point-of-view). The only traffic at neocities is downloading the page itself (maybe 20kB?).
3) I don't think enough people care about these stats to make much difference to Denny. I could space out the requests more if needed. Or block the "load" button for some amount of time.
Date: Tue Jan 21 17:37:31 2020
User: joeygray
Message:Thanks, Jay. It's not a spreadsheet at all, it just looks like one. Or it looks like one to me, since I'm such a spreadsheet kind of guy. :) If I had just right clicked it in the first place I wouldn't have had to ask!
Date: Fri Apr 17 20:13:15 2020
User: TitanicTony
Message:This is kinda weird!! Everybody is in twice, except #17 and #24???..... Maybe it isn't a serious problem?
Link: https://freeatlast.neocities.org/freecell/stats.html
AllTime Winnables Streak Rankings
4x10 5x8 6x5 7x4 8x3 9x2 10x1 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:07:34 GMT
1 83 112 73 217 158 221 297 40133418 4.0133418e+7 TitanicTony
2 83 112 73 217 158 221 297 40133418 4.0133418e+7 TitanicTony
3 51 51 51 51 61 101 588 5218675 5.218675e+6 HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
4 51 51 51 51 61 101 588 5218675 5.218675e+6 HopDiriDiriDattiriDittiriDom
5 68 55 44 98 123 90 80 3966582 3.966582e+6 Goosey_Goosey_Gander
6 68 55 44 98 123 90 80 3966582 3.966582e+6 Goosey_Goosey_Gander
7 23 42 24 49 46 86 90 692826 6.92826e+5 WRAC
8 23 42 24 49 46 86 90 692826 6.92826e+5 WRAC
9 39 48 36 44 58 41 54 666910 6.6691e+5 free@last
10 39 48 36 44 58 41 54 666910 6.6691e+5 free@last
11 22 24 21 31 92 58 46 323100 3.231e+5 ix
12 22 24 21 31 92 58 46 323100 3.231e+5 ix
13 21 29 21 23 21 33 20 73986 7.3986e+4 snoverdavid
14 21 29 21 23 21 33 20 73986 7.3986e+4 snoverdavid
15 9 19 14 28 26 34 39 57346 5.7346e+4 rws33315
16 9 19 14 28 26 34 39 57346 5.7346e+4 rws33315
17 80 194 134 247 22996 2.2996e+4 wasjun
18 11 11 6 12 10 8 9 3602 3.602e+3 bluerose
19 11 11 6 12 10 8 9 3602 3.602e+3 bluerose
20 35 62 64 29 2103 2.103e+3 T1-T3
21 35 62 64 29 2103 2.103e+3 T1-T3
22 6 14 18 28 32 1382 1.382e+3 DrJackK
23 6 14 18 28 32 1382 1.382e+3 DrJackK
24 30 0 0e+0 chickaboom
Date: Fri Apr 17 22:30:48 2020
User: free@last
Message:Tony, reload the page and then only click 'load' once.
This was more a demo than intended for actual use. :)
Date: Sat Apr 18 10:12:56 2020
User: free@last
Message:I fixed it for you. I added a missing line to disable the load button after clicking (prevent accidental double click). And I added a line to clean things up before display new data.
Date: Sat Apr 18 11:50:32 2020
User: TitanicTony
Message:THANKS very much, 🙂!!
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