e/j Scrabble® games summary

Last modified: Sun Dec 24 00:58:04 PST 2000

The score in red signifies the winner of that game. The grey star to the right of the score indicates the person who went first in the round.

*Cummulative per person point average
†Determined prior to start of game

Introduction

These pages detail the Scrabble® games between Ed Page and Jason Walsh.

Statistics

Games played this month January 2001 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Games played December 2000 December 2000 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

• Most turns: 24 on 12/08/00
• Highest score for a single word: Ed Page, ``expunged'' = 88 on 12/16/00

Site Notes

Scripted update process

1. update scores.csv
2. run script to
   • run make day (creates basic files (copies template for date with name yymmdd.shtml))
   • run make image (creates thumbnail of empty board and names correctly)
   • run make calendar (creates calendar entry)
   • run make summary (creates primary stats table (updates the daily totals, the aggregate totals, and all statistics))
3. select table data and create graphs from MS Excel for the large and small versions
4. move board image; delete the thumbnail for that day; rerun makeimage
5. enter turn information
6. verify page is linked from the main page and information displays correctly

Future features

• Will cross reference Scrabble.com for the particular words
• Will list if the word is valid
• Game information will be stored in neutral format (XML or game data format)
• Extensive list of game statistics: average word length, round length...

This site was built with Microsoft FrontPage and Excel 2000, FSF NT Emacs 20.7, shell scripts for GNU bash 1.14.7, and Perl 5.005_03.