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Proposal of Rule Changes
GinTonyx - Keeper and Mixer of the Gin and Tonic, Muse of the Lemon Garden. Started conversation Apr 5, 2004
U208686 has suggested to use drivernames for the guesses instead of car numbers.
I do agree that it is somewhat unreadable the way we have it.
On the other hand I am using Excel to compute the results. So we need a means of indentifying a driver that Excel will understand by itself. It will not recognize "Michael" as Michael Schumacher or 1 although almost every human will. Also, it will not recognize Micheal.
From my point of view the most secure way to do this game is car numbers. I personally don't have anything against names, as long as they are well defined and all agreed upon.
The alternative to car numbers is to use three-letter-abbreviations. Like MSC for you-know-who, RSC for his brother, JPM and so on. The downside of this is that (a) these abbreviations are not official, (b) you can still mistype MCS (and get no points for this) and (c) they don't change automatically. Remember last season? All of a sudden Minardi and Jordan changed their drivers. All of a sudden HHF was gone. The thing that stayed was "his" car number. That means, every time some team boss thinks he has to let some driver go we (I) have to update the entry list.
If you all want this, you can have it. I will do the extra effort of updating. Excel is not a problem at all. Please do not expect me to update typos in your guesses though. Especially not after I computed the results.
Also we need a lookuptable (what is the abbrev for Gianmaria Bruni? Did I see JMO instead of JPM on tv yesterday?)
Please let me know what you think about car numbers or driver names...
-Gin
Proposal of Rule Changes
E G Mel Posted Apr 5, 2004
Stick with the numbers, yeah it may be more confusing to look at but once you've done it a couple of times it makes sense plus it's a damn sight easier to transfer from paper notepad to a post!
The other advantage is that I'm begining to know who it means when it says "The incident involving cars 2 and 14" 
Mel 
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Dr E Vibenstein (You know it is, it really is.) Posted Apr 5, 2004
What about if we had a handy table of numbers and drivers on the competition page, rather than having to open the FIA link in another window? Would that help?
Proposal of Rule Changes
E G Mel Posted Apr 6, 2004
That would probably make a difference to those on a slower connection.
Though this will mean another thing to update if the drivers change.
Read my race report in Peer Review F48874?thread=404869
Mel
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GinTonyx - Keeper and Mixer of the Gin and Tonic, Muse of the Lemon Garden. Posted Apr 6, 2004
Would that help? It's no problem to do that table. I included it in A2349083.
-Gin
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