Hi all,

It's not often I pop into this forum, but I just wanted to announce the creation of the Site Market Game Score Database at:

http://matrix.theblob.org/smg/

Basically, in the middle of game #40, I started to take score tables from the SMG daily and producing delta charts showing how each player did that day - you can see an example at:

http://matrix.theblob.org/smg/index.cgi?action=viewday&game=40&date=2005-04-05

As you can see, this shows the final results, and how those compared to the day before. After the end of the game, I decided to take these scores and put them all into a database, as that meant I could do these things automatically, as well as graphs and other cool stuff - and I ended up with what you see here. I'm quite proud of it myself.

Unfortunately, I only have the final scores for games #1-39, but for game #40 I have score tables - and thus delta charts - from day 9 onwards. The system isn't as yet *fully* automatic during games - I still need to get the score table manually each day and let the script run it over - but the script does all the rest, including graphs, delta charts, and so on. The plan is to have it fully automatic for game #42; there's a couple of things I need to work out about the structure of the game that can only be done during it.

The above caveats won't affect you, however - you can go ahead and view the pages at any time, even during games.

Hopefully this post is easy to understand. I'm prone to making these types of posts too technical, so if you don't understand anything, please feel free to ask me to clarify things.

Thanks!

- Ciaran.