Stat program wish list

I had(have?) very noble intentions when i
designed my stats program and i thought that in order to
make it more powerful and more user friendly that i
needed to take more drastic programming steps to
accomplish this. In order to do this quickly and easily, and
to use the existing functionality of Excel, i
decided just to write my program in Visual Basic for
Applications v6, which comes with Excel 2000. However i am
beginning to regret that decision as my program died,
without provocation or warning in the middle of our hs
tournament sunday. Luckily i had a saved version, but this
kind of behavior is not acceptable in a time and data
critical situation. So what i may do (and i sorta dread
this... but i'm still willing) is to do a complete
rewrite.

So...my question to all of you is...What would your ideal
stats program be like? This includes
relevant/interesting statistics, the type of computer that it should
run on, should it be stand alone or is do you like it
to run under excel, the programming language to make
it in (should you have such an opinion...),
etc.

I have the time and the knowledge to do this (i
think....) and, more importantly, i do want to, so please
take advantage of this. All i ask is to have some
feedback, some ideas. I can take it from there. I doubt
that i can accomidate everyone but i hope that i can
make a program that allows for this very difficult
(and important) task to be done in a accurate and
timely matter.

So some ideas of things to tell
me... What kind of computer will you have available to
you typically?... Do you want to know PPG, PP X
tossups, bonus conversion, etc.?... would you want it web
based?...

I would appreciate any and all responses.
Thanks.

Jon Misurda

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