Re: [quizbowl] TDing: SQBS or LiveStat?

Jim Puls <*jpuls_at_jpuls2.yahoo.invalid*> · Mon, 18 Apr 2005 02:37:47 -0400

I've got a decent amount of experience with one of the listed  
programs, so I figure I can answer this question reasonably well.

Livestat 1.2 was released in June 2002, and it's missing some pretty  
important stuff. I made quite a few changes to it (adding support for  
multiple brackets, adding a much more friendly user interface, and a  
few others). I've been calling it Livestat 1.5, though I really  
shouldn't, as I've not even gone so far as to mention these changes  
to its original creator. It, too, has bugs: as I just mentioned in a  
private e-mail to the parent poster, Livestat likes to choke on  
various encodings under Perl 5.8.

I've also been working on a complete rewrite of it to include all of  
the other missing features and a GUI front-end for entirely too long  
now; both of these are about halfway done. Other projects have  
restricted the amount of time I can put in, though.

If people are interested, I can (given the original license of  
Livestat) release my modified version. Takers?

To answer your questions: I've seen various Excel spreadsheet macro  
programs for doing something very similar. Couldn't point you to them.
As for Livestat's plus points? For one, it doesn't require Windows in  
order to run...

-> jp

On Apr 18, 2005, at 1:02 AM, Andy Saunders wrote:

>
> As someone relatively new to the Quiz Bowl community, and someone  
> whose
> club is about to start running events, I have some questions about  
> stats
> software for those of you who have much more experience with hosting
> these than I currently do.
>
> 1) Is there anybody that uses a something for stats other than SQBS or
> LiveStat? If so, what?
>
> 2) What are LiveStat's plus points? By this, I mean, is there anything
> that LiveStat would do for me that I wouldn't be able to do at all (no
> way, no how) with SQBS?
>
> Thanks, and hopefully I can get some assistance from the community in
> this matter.
>
> Andy Saunders
> President, Brock Trivia
> andy_at_...
>
>
>
>
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