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Pro Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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How do you track?
I have been thinking about a way of wording this question for a while and I figured I would just get it out there. A lot of you have been playing WW for quite a while and I know everyone has their own ways of tracking the game; be it spreadsheets or word docs or whatever, everyone has their own way of keeping tabs on votes and actions. Without getting into too much "personal" detail (I don't want to cramp anyone's style here), how do you do it? I have been trying to determine the best spreadsheet format to do a better job of tracking myself but it either looks way too messy or is far too complicated to understand and do in a timely manner, so I was thinking if there was anyone out there that had anything or knew of anything that they could share, it would be helpful to the community as a whole.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bath, ME
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I don't think I do anything too special. I usually do a spreadsheet, copy the player list from the thread. I generally do columns for each day and night. I'll list the person's vote, and then whether they are killed or lynched. I also keep a spot for guesses as to role, notes, etc.
I usually then use different pages on the spreadsheet, one for each day's vote. I'll keep the running tally there, and the final vote. Lately I've started just doing that part in a text file, because I find it's hard to copy and paste from the spreadsheet into the forum. I haven't found a way to integrate all the things you'd want to track into one thing, so I basically just have a bunch of running lists. |
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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Safe to say I really have no system.
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#4 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: New Hampshire
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It's all in my head
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#5 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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In my head. If I'm trying to do more in-depth analysis, I'll organize my thoughts in Notepad, but I don't keep a running tab of notes.
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#6 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bath, ME
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I wouldn't even remember who was in the game if I didn't keep track. Actually even with a spreadsheet I usually can't remember who's in the game.
I haven't been doing as much tracking when I'm playing lately though, other than just straight up vote history if I'm around. |
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#7 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2009
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I just use notepad to sort out the votes and that's it really. If I do any serious post analysis I just quote it and type from there, again maybe using notepad to help. Now running the game I needed supermegaspreadsheet and a folder full of pictures.
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I pretty much decide on day 2 who I am going to hound that game and continue to do so until one of us is dead.
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#9 |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Appleton, WI
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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Head Coach
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bath, ME
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#12 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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LOL Autumn, that's great
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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I'm an intuitive NP on the MBTI, so I don;t notice things, I certainly don;t keep track of crap, I get intuitions and play it by ear.
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#15 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Chicago
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When playing, I'll use Notepad for vote counts, and sometimes post #s for stuff I want to recall later. I'll normally break out Excel for games I moderate, due to the extra stuff I usually have to track for the roles in those games.
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I always used an excel spreadsheet as a mod
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#17 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mass.
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I always just did the opposite of whatever Hoopsguy did.
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#18 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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For a little while I started to keep a spreadsheet, then switched to a word doc. Then I realized that I was playing poorly and reading way too much into voting patterns. I dumped that knowing that others would post that information at some point.
When running a game it's usually a couple word docs (the number depends on the complexity), or as in the case of the amazing race game I break out a spreadsheet to assist. Though that does hurt a little as I have forgotten who is in a game sometimes (like last game I kept forgetting Jackal was in it, unless the Flyers were playing that night). |
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Head Coach
Join Date: Jul 2001
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I don't keep any out of thread materials. I either work through stuff in my head or in thread for all to see.
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#20 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Or through PM's if I happen to be a wolf.
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#21 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Aye - it would probably help a little bit if I wrote down notes on each player but I can't see it being worth it. If I want to target one person in particular I usually just look at "last post made" and pick through that. Get's ruined by people who have an active presence outside of werewolf though.
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#22 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA
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I've tried keeping seperate pages of notes on each person playing, and it helped keeping me focused, and when I reread them to make connections I wouldn't have seen without the notes, but in the end it just became too time consuming.
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