scoop 3,312 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 The all-time stat spreadsheets are going to be losing a column. Rather than continue on with separate columns for first and last name, VHL's junior historian Streetlight has decided to concatenate the two. There isn't much lost by this, but it does mean that the player name tab will now be sorted by first name rather than last name. There really isn't much to gain, either, but it's a change that Streetlight believes will make things ever so slightly easier for him: "One part of the process of updating stats is to copy each player's name to a new row when I combine their previous stats with those that they accumulated in the current season. Now I'll only have to copy one. This saves about 1.6 seconds of my time." Additionally, it reduces the potential for a mistake to be made. "When I sort players by name in order to position the rows of each current player next to their previous stats, because of shared names, they aren't always next to their own. For example, if I sort by surname, Niklas Valiq's row of S39 stats might not end up adjacent to his career stats up to that point. It's possible, however very unlikely, that I might accidentally combine those stats to the incorrect player if I'm not being careful. This will also save me some time, as I don't have to re-order any row that isn't where I need it to be." The change being made is one that would be able to be undone should there be an enormous amount of public backlash. It is unexpected, but we can never be too sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 10,682 Posted September 5, 2014 Admin Share Posted September 5, 2014 It's new and I don't like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoop 3,312 Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 This just in: Streetlight has also readjusted column width to make all stat columns 48 pixels. NotAVHLM-GM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jericho 917 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 This just in: Streetlight has also readjusted column width to make all stat columns 48 pixels. thats going too far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Admin Will 4,648 Posted September 5, 2014 Senior Admin Share Posted September 5, 2014 i demand this be put to a bog vote immediately how dare you try and dictate my life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgins 3,618 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Who made you king of anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squinty 116 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 omg i got featured in an article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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