Well don’t get the idea it’s hard work.
Yes I put a bit of time coding it up in the first place but in doing so, I’ve used a lot of functions I hadn’t used before - and given I’m no longer working, never would have, I enjoyed that.
But week by week, it’s 24x3 characters to set up the fixture list plus 24 characters for each of your score predictions plus 1 or 2 each for each goal time and 1 each for your jokers.
There are single characters for Double points, Goal Totals On/Off and Super Match.
Then there’s 24 characters for the results plus a maximum of 2 for the goal time.
So that’s far less than I’ve just typed…..
There’s a bit of moving of data between rounds and I keep Last, Current and Next versions so if someone makes a late query (Plym) I should be able to recover it.
Biggest pain in the backside is the FA Cup. Needs a bespoke team list each time. So for the first round, that’s 3 characters each for the team IDs (excluding PAFC which alteady exists) plus team name text x 23.
The other problem is that the top secret method I use to arrive at my forecasts and only works within the league framework.
The worst thing that could happen is that they change the number of teams in the division…. Or that we get promoted but I guess I’ll live with that!