How many people use excel?

[Airhog]

Do many people here use excel with their teams?

[Franklinnoble]

To do what?

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
To do what?

To track player values, ratings, your team economy, your game ratings, a whole bunch of fun stuff...

If you had not figured, yeah, I use excel :)

FM

[Brillig]

I do, even if Excel is a product of the Great Satan.

[vex]

I track my training.

[Franklinnoble]

Hmm... like I need to spend any more time with hattrick... ;)

Then again... it would LOOK like I'm doing real work around here...

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
Hmm... like I need to spend any more time with hattrick... ;)

Then again... it would LOOK like I'm doing real work around here...

EXACTLY!!! Nothing look more like an excel spreadsheet than another excel spreadsheet :D

Oh and I forgot one other thing I do with excel: THE RANKINGS!!! ;)

FM

[vex]

Like I said, I track my training, but I forgot, I only have Works:(

[Franklinnoble]

Would an Access database work better? ;)

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
Would an Access database work better? ;)

It certainly would, but when you work some 8 hours a day with excel and transferring and analysing data in and out of excel spreadsheets, you get used to it :)

There's also the fact that I don't feel like learning Access... :p

FM
PS: other thing I do with my excel spreadsheet is that it gives me a numerical value for players at every one of the main position they can play. Then, when shopping on the transfer market, I can analyze quickly if a certain player will fit on my roster and actually improve it...

[Franklinnoble]

Hmm... if someone wrote a kickass Access database to import and track player data, it'd be REAL handy... anyone here know Access? Or am I gonna have to get off my ass and figure it out? ;)

[TredWel]

I calculate positional player ratings with Excel, and mark off who's getting trained this week, but not much else.

The only other piece of software was a Java program I wrote to highlight interesting players on a page of info from a transfer search. But, I'm trying to shy away from the market for the time being (back in debt, sigh), so testing on that software is halted.

[DukeRulesMAB]

I've got a 4-page spreadsheet for each week of action so far (all 2 of them). Yes, I am a geek. :)

[TargetPractice6]

Originally posted by vexroid
Like I said, I track my training, but I forgot, I only have Works:(

I could use this exact same sentence. Microsoft Works is a bit of an oxymoron though isn't it?

[MikeVic]

I was going to write a Java, Java Applet, C, or C++ program for hattrick... but didn't know what I would want it to do :D The .hrf file really use a nice format for this stuff... anyone who knows some programming knows it doesn't seem hard to read in the values and so something with it :)

[Franklinnoble]

I'm cutting my teeth as a recreational C++ programmer... maybe if I ever get past "Day 4" of "Teach Yourself Visual C++ in 21 Days" I'll do something about it...

[lytic]

TP does C++

anyway... I spent the $7 or whatever on HAM. I don't have time to tinker.

[Nyarlahotep]

Originally posted by lytic

anyway... I spent the $7 or whatever on HAM. I don't have time to tinker.


Ditto. HAM does everything I need and if I decide I need something else, Loke seems to be pretty quick with reasonable feature requests.

[fantastic flying froggies]

Use excel and hattrick Poli myself. Haven't spent the dough for HAM. Yet...

[DataKing]

DataKing = Excel Junkie.

[FrogMan]

Originally posted by DataKing
DataKing = Excel Junkie.

Funny how you just described me :D

Are we some long lost twin brothers?

FM

[DataKing]

Originally posted by FrogMan
Funny how you just described me :D

Are we some long lost twin brothers?

FM

I don't recall there being any amphibians on my family tree, but stranger things have happened (ok, not really, but you get the point...).

[TargetPractice6]

No I'm not lytic :p I forked over the $7 for HAM though.