DIVISION 2 SELECTIONS for SATURDAY

Izzy Top - 3.15. Goodwood

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Lexi's Hero - 3.55 Goodwood please momm

Fair enough mini me.

Give me your email address and I'll send you the spreadsheet.
You can do the ******* table yourself.

I resign. Effective immediately.

MOMM  -  you do a great job. I will try to behave...........

Oasis Dancer - 3.55 Good

Thannks.

I'm posting in my new capacity as Settler Without Portfolio, the new permanent stand-in for holidays, sickness, seething spur-of-the-moment resignations etc., until a permanent replacement can be found.

So here is yesterday's table for Division 2:

POS	CHG	FORM	NAME	SELECTION	RESULT	+/-	TOTAL
1▲		10	raspberrybottom	Mangham - 7.20 Muss	LAST	-1.00	£5.00
2▲		01	learning thegame	Diman Waters - 8.20 Muss	lost	-1.00	£4.50
3▲	+6	13	Draw 1	Crimson Queen - 8.40 Bath	Won 5/4f	1.25	£2.13
4▲	-1	12	unluckyStu	Trending - 8.10 Bath	lost	-1.00	£2.00
4▲		31	Earth To Mickey	Calculated Risk - 8.00 Newm	nr	0.00	£2.00
6	+5	11	*stealthgun	Halogen - 2.10 Bang	Won 2/5f	0.40	£1.18
7	+2	1u	tryoffagain	Calculated Risk - 8.00 Newm	nr	0.00	£0.88
8	+9	12	Ashmal	Pale Mimosa - 7.25 Gal	Won 4/6f	0.67	£0.77
9	-4	10	elvissss	Raz De Maree - 6.15 Gal	lost	-1.00	£0.75
10	-4	11	*majorupshotbagley	Royal Straight - 7.20 Muss	lost	-1.00	£0.68
11	-4	01	mr d ferret	Swiftly Done - 3.10 Good	lost	-1.00	£0.00
11	-4	01	mini me	Mystical Moment - 4.20 Good	lost	-1.00	£0.00
13	-1	01	flyingbolt (1)	Angels Will Fall - 3.45 Good	lost	-1.00	-£0.50
14	-1	21	la mallatierre (3)	LRF: Miss Ella Jade - 8.50 Muss	2nd 11/4	-1.00	-£0.50
15	-1	21	BinocularsNotNeeded	Notable Graduate - 8.25 Gal	lost	-1.00	-£0.75
16	-1	01	CreamyWhiskers	No Selection		-1.00	-£0.80
16	-1	01	ATone	All Time - 3.30 Thirsk	2nd 2/1	-1.00	-£0.80
18		21	Aquarius	Beidh Tine Anseo - 3.55 Bang	lost	-1.00	-£1.27
19		12	travelling man	Songcraft - 2.00 Good	lost	-1.00	-£1.70
20		00	pedro39	Cosmic Halo - 4.05 Thirsk	w/d	0.00	-£2.00
21	-1	dd	betme	No Selection		-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	00	SilverBuck1	Gregorian - 2.35 Good	LAST	-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	02	hoof hearted	Springheel Jake - 7.50 Muss	2nd 7/2	-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	00	kwalker	Songcraft - 2.00 Good	lost	-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	dd	sixtwosix	No Selection		-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	00	penzance	Songcraft - 2.00 Good	lost	-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	20	berniedinneen	Ban Uisce - 2.45 Bang	lost	-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	00	madhatter	Gregorian - 2.35 Good	LAST	-1.00	-£3.00
21	-1	00	WakingtheDead	Swan Song - 5.25 Good	lost	-1.00	-£3.00
30▼		30	Monte Christo (2)	FRF: Gatewood - 2.00 Good	3rd 9/4	-1.00	-£3.00

Morning MOMM,

Everyone knows that table settling is time consuming at the end of every day. You do a brilliant job and the write ups you do are exceptional. If you resign as a result of you feeling angry and under appreciated by a few players, I will also resign from the competition with immediate effect as I have nothing but positivr things to say about you. I hope you reconsider your decision mate and as you can see from this thread, a lot of people appreciate your work.

Dundonnell - 6.30 Lingfield.

Many thanks as always.

Izzi Top 315 Goodwood
cheers

Buachaill Alainn - 4.20 Newton Abbot

Seal Rock - 3.55 Good
   GL ALL

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Elusive Prince - 3.55 Goodwood

Interesting to read the banter on here. I bet there is somebody with a sense of humour lurking in the background.

I wonder how many retired Majors there are? MUB  - your nap Lady Poppy is my lay of the day....

Cheers MOMM

 jimmy styles 320 Donc

Sovereign Street - 7.15 Hamilton

Palace Moon - 3.55 Goodwood

Ty

As said above, dock 'em if they can't be arsed posting as told!

You're the boss in this div

Try, have a look in yesterdays thread about the capitals. It gives the settlers more work to do if they have to retype the selections without them. BTW, I have backed that horse at Galway so its got feck all chance now.

for Earth To Mickey

Nordikhab - 8.00 Lingfield

Lady Kashaan - 8.45 Hamilton

curious that the other divisions can cope without the Div 2 rools...............

Settling the table every day is a time-consuming business. I don't get paid for it. It's not a lot of time, but it is time given up out of my day, every day.
I don't mind. Happy to do it. If I wasn't, I wouldn't do it. But my time is valuable to me, so expecting a little consideration and cooperation from players to help reduce that time is not unreasonable.

There are basically two stages to settling the table. The first is to enter all the selections into a spreadsheet. The second is to look up all the results and enter them on the spreadsheet.
There's no way to save any time with looking up the results. The more meetings there are, the longer it takes. There are no shortcuts.
But time can definitely be saved with entering the selections if everyone types them out exactly as they appear on the table. That is a huge help.

Every settler has their own way of producing the table, but they all have one thing in common. The tables look neat and uniform, with all the selections displayed exactly the same way.
I know that Shane for example retypes every selecton by hand in the Premier, which must be a very laborious task.
I don't know what Reged does in Div 3 but every selection is displayed the same way. When you look at the completely haphazard way in which the selections are posted, it must take him ages to either edit or retype 36 of them every day. A nightmare!

The way I do it is very fast. Highlight the selection / copy / Alt-tab to switch to the spreadsheet / paste special  + unicode text. Job done. A few seconds.
Doing 30 of them takes very little time and theoretically I should then be able to move straight on to looking up the results.
But I can't. I never can. In the 16 months that I've been doing the settling, not once have I ever been able to move straight on to the next stage. I have to go through them all, one by one, and make all the necessary alterations so that they all look uniform. Most of them are very minor changes. Others take a bit longer. But there are usually at least half of them that need something doing to them. Yesterday was a good day; there were only eight that needed editing.

But even that is eight more than there needs to be. However, I accept that there will always be a few typos etc and I don't mind that. What I do mind is players blatantly disregarding my polite requests to cooperate by making my task easier. I make these requests every month. And every month there are always a handful of players who totally ignore me. Why they do this is beyond me. I can see no reason for it other than complete selfishness and a total lack of respect for me. And that really annoys me. As Reged rightly says, it's taking the piss.

It's not like it's a difficult habit to get into. You type the horse's name using capitals for the first letter of each word. Then you type space dash space. Then the time of the race with the hour and the minutes separated by a dot. Then a space followed the name of the meeting, once again capitalising the first letter(s). Is that really expecting too much? It would appear to be beyond the capability of some.

But it's not a Rule, and it never will be. That would be a bit draconian for what is after all just a silly competition amongst friends. I don't have to do the settling, and if I don't like it I can resign. Which is what I did after mini me clearly thought my request was unreasonable. I'm more than happy to let him take over the settling if he thinks he can do a better job. I shall be giving up soon anyway and taking on the role of Settler Without Portfolio as a stand-in whenever needed. It's already been discussed. So I was merely rehearsing my resignation speech. Do you think it was a bit top heavy?

Anyway, thank you all for your positive replies and I apologise if it might seem like I was over-reacting; it was more a case of straws and camels than anything else. The refusal of a few selfish players to cooperate has always been a constant source of irritation for me.

I particularly liked Binoculars' suggestion that anyone who doesn't post their selection exactly as it appears on the table should be made an Invalid Selection.
A splendid idea and one I've often contemplated. Unfortunately, Binoculars himself would have fallen foul of it immediately as he posted:

Izzi Top 315 Goodwood

instead of

Izzi Top - 3.15 Goodwood

So that made me chuckle.