Syntax
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I was wondering if there was a way to get informed when someone loses a #1 score? I currently seem to fluctuating stagnantly, but I haven't found a good technique to figure which #1 score I just lost, and so, where to focus my attention.

Is there something in place to find this out, or is it a case of memorising all your #1s from the "My Scores" tab?

michthro
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A "My lost #1s" would be very useful. It shouldn't be too difficult to implement - all you want to do is list those non-#1 scores for which all better scores were uploaded at a later time.

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Since only one score for person is kept, you wouldn't be able to do this retroactively. Example:

 
      Player A has 20 set on May 1 
      Player B has 20 set on May 1 
      Player C has 21 set on April 30

You can't conclude that Player C used to have a #1 for this room. It's possible that Player B scored 21 on April 29 and then improved her score when she was beaten. A My Lost #1s page would only be able to keep track of those #1s lost after the page was implemented.

An idea that I've been meaning to suggest is to change the way the scores on the My Scores page are ordered. Currently they're ordered by date the demo was recordered. Suppose this were changed so that they were ordered by the time that they achieved a given rank. Then whenever you lost a #1, you could go to your My Scores page and check out your #2s; any recently demoted scores would be at the top of the list.

Syntax
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Good idea.
I was thinking along the lines of the spider marking a score as lost if it's in #1 and a new demo beats it...

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And that would work retrospectively. Would need a new page/tab to show these though...

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michthro
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That would be much better (KevG's idea, not that I have anything against Syntax's), though I could live with a little ambiguity. Is the date on which the latest rank was achieved available from the current system? Otherwise you basically have the same problem for scores uploaded before the page is implemented.

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michthro wrote:Is the date on which the latest rank was achieved available from the current system?

I doubt it; you would pretty much have to reconstruct the history of the room in order to figure it out. You would probably have to start with the scores sorted in their current fashion and then any time a score changes rank it would be listed at the top of it's new rank instead of sorted in by date of demo. Don't see why this would be a problem; only the scores that have recently changed rank are likely to be of interest.

Syntax
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I still reckon flagging beaten #1s as lost would be the simplest to implement...

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Something easy to implement that would go a long way is a #1s column on the "My Stats" page. Ideally if entries that have changed could be highlighted, but even without that the problem would be solved for me. Comparing the page with an old copy isn't much trouble. Only in the big holds will it still take some time to track down the score you've lost, but I can live with that.

This would also make the page a bit more informative when viewing someone else's stats.

Btw shouldn't this be moved to The Site?

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michthro wrote:
Something easy to implement that would go a long way is a #1s column on the "My Stats" page. Ideally if entries that have changed could be highlighted, but even without that the problem would be solved for me.

Highlighting would be nice, but even without it this would be sufficient. Also, it really should be there anyway. There's plenty of room to add a #1 column in the Conquered Holds section. In the Explored section it could replace the Rooms Conquered column. Afterall, the Rooms Conquered is redundant given the Number of High Scores column.