SF Band dad wrote:Just to make sure that there is not any misunderstanding, I added a copyright notice to the bottom of the standings table graphic to dissuade people from copying or hot-linking that graphic to other websites. One of my peeves with PFT was that they seemed to forget that on a forum the members, their thoughts and ideas, are the content. Their actions seemed to lump us in with their other "digital customers" that visit their websites to view content created by SHJ staff. I started keeping and posting accurate, up-to-date, statewide standings out of frustration because no one else was, including SHJ.
It would be impossible to claim any ownership of the information since it's just an aggregation of publicly available data. But it is a fair amount of work to gather the weekly scores, crunch the numbers and generate the standings and stats. Those other websites have decided not to invest the time and effort to do so.
The spreadsheet used to create that graphic (and others in the works for the other classes) is based on a 4A spreadsheet created by Rebel-Fan-74. He offered it on PFT to anyone that wanted it last year and provided it to me without limitation or restriction. I am not claiming ownership of his work; I have provided him with a copy of my "work in progress" spreadsheet for 2013, also without limitation or restriction.
Perhaps I should do away with the copyright notice and just replace it with a SCPT logo and web address... That way, if someone copies or hotlinks the graphic to another website it will at least let anyone viewing it know where it came from and lead them here. (Or perhaps,.... I just realized how we can embed linked advertising as part of our content.
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I'm thinking that once I get my "All Classes" spreadsheet done I will follow RF-74's lead and offer it to anyone that wants it. Creating the spreadsheet is about 2/3 of the battle, the other 1/3 is finding and entering the game results every week.
I'm in the process of buying a new house so my time has been limited between wife's health and all the issues with the new house, but I have looked and I do think the sheet is amazing. If I find ways to make things any easier, I will be giving you a PM.