Board 8 > Save My Favorite Final Fantasy Characters XXV: Day 7 [smfffc]

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EXDEATH

CVI - 49/65
CVII - 42/70
CVIII - 73/75 (Booted)
CXI - 15/75
CXII - 75/75 (Booted)
CXIV - 91/102 (Booted)
CXVI - 35/100
CXVII - 97/100 (Booted)
CXX - 34/100
CXXI - 43/100
CXXII - 88/100 (Booted)
CXXIV - 38/100
CXXV - 94/100 (Booted)

overall STATS: 34.15% / down 2.27% - 102nd/132 (down 14)
newSTATS: 36.22% / down 4.17% - 84th/110 (down 8)
leftySTATS: 41.60% / down 8.65% - 53rd/68 (down 12)

Ulti lucky that other people covered the trade before the round ended.

Wow has anyone else been booted 6 times?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/9/AALrDjAAEiVj.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/3/2/AAN7AaAAEiVw.jpg

Congrats Exdeath on your mid-30s placement in two years.

I think people saw Wakka get 2nd on that fan poll and panicked about him making the finals and beating Aerith

Darn

UltimaterializerX posted...

@_Keeby
I'll get Snow first save next round. I really was alt tabbed and refreshing but I'm slow :(

Its okay. Even if Snow got eliminated I wouldnt really have been upset.

UltimaterializerX posted...

I'm a man of my word though and I don't like that I didn't come through for you.

Dont worry about that. All is forgiven. If anything, it was my fault because this was my first ever time doing a trade in any sort of Save my, so I didnt know exactly how it worked, and I did my end of the deal out of panic because the round was about to end and I didnt want to seem like I lied to you.

I'll say stuff as someone who's participated in these Save My contests for awhile.

Keeby, what you did was right the whole time. You upheld your end of the trade since it was an auto so you're not at fault for anything.

If Ulti still wants to save Snow on his own will to make up for it, just let him. It's common courtesy to upheld the trade in the next round if someone forgets anyways.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/3/5/AAI16ZAAEidn.png

No round!

Yeah I was wondering if the cutoff was still a thing (or if there were any other timing/cutoff rules in effect for any other days). Well thanks for letting us non-discordians know!

i forgot about that cutoff entirely

but yay i think today is my last day of being sick anyways

also on the stats site i got the inputs setup for narrowing results between specific iterations of contests (ie lefty era) so now i just gotta use those input fields to modify the output view

6 boot club hype

You've earned a day off, FFVIII crew

So hear me out

what if we run Wakka/X-Death two years from now and decide which character is the true king

99. X-Death
100. Wakka

three bottom fives might be more impressive than six boots

okay i got the min/max filters working

https://aerispies.com/stats/contests/stats?minrun=14&maxrun=19&mincon=3&maxcon=5&show=1&contests=SMFFFC

here's an example limiting only to FFD + Leon eras for characters with at least 3 appearances but haven't appeared in every contest, and with the option ticked to display which characters are cut off from those contest requirements

my numbers of characters don't seem to be matching up with lefty's yet (eg. X-Death placing out of 132 for overall STATS) but I do still have to start adding up this years results so I guess I'll work on that next

obviously their STATS themselves aren't gonna match up until I add the new results so maybe I'll find out that calculation's wrong atm

Bring back Dangerous Ariana

Hope your headache got better, lefty! Must be going around - I had a splitting headache this morning too, and it took until early afternoon to get better.

I forgot to check for a round for the past 5 hours so good timing on the no round today

just now realizing all the mogs means I have to do a bit of restructuring on the database that currently doesn't account for duplicate full names

well i could call them Mog IX Mog VII etc but that's ugly

GuessMyUserName posted...

my numbers of characters don't seem to be matching up with lefty's yet (eg. X-Death placing out of 132 for overall STATS)

I think I found it. Based on what lefty posted in last year's results topic, the discrepancies are with Rinoa and Quistis

(lefty % vs. your %)
Rinoa Heartilly 56.54% vs. 56.47%
Quistis Trepe 43.26% vs 43.31%

Error seems to be with the XVI contest, the B8 fandom page for it (btw nobody's added a XXIV page yet?) has placements as follows:

46. Quistis Trepe
47. Rinoa Heartilly

And that matches what you've got, but lefty has Rinoa as 46th in the stats he posted for her last year. So, somebody's wrong? XVI topics don't appear to be in the log site either.

Also: thanks for the page update, but changing the filters and clicking "Show Cuts" doesn't seem to actually update the page/any changes in cuts still need to be made directly in the URL, not sure if that's by design or still a pending update (or something wonky on my end)

Also I'm assuming it won't be possible in the new stats appearance format to have that same appearance as the old page where it'd be the series of character boxes & all the character's placements within that box, right? I'm always resistant to change so I gotta ask just in case, hahaha...

MartinFF7 posted...

Also: thanks for the page update, but changing the filters and clicking "Show Cuts" doesn't seem to actually update the page/any changes in cuts still need to be made directly in the URL, not sure if that's by design or still a pending update (or something wonky on my end)

I probably should've mentioned pressing Enter will submit the min/max filters

... although I dunno how that works on mobile... *checks*

okay I just did it, at least on Android Firefox my keyboard shows a Next button and I keep clicking that and it brings me to the next input field until I get to Max Contests, which then submits the form successfully

MartinFF7 posted...

Also I'm assuming it won't be possible in the new stats appearance format to have that same appearance as the old page where it'd be the series of character boxes & all the character's placements within that box, right? I'm always resistant to change so I gotta ask just in case, hahaha...

Nah that'll be doable I just gotta move onto that page. Still got a few more pages to convert!

screenshots of what I said

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/2/AARPAeAAEifm.jpg

if I start on an earlier input field it just says Next all the way through then submits, but if I start off on Max Contests the button changes to Go

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/3/AARPAeAAEifn.jpg

lol I'm such an idiot, of course hitting enter resolved it. Thanks & thanks for doable 2nd part! Now it's just the mystery of the FF8 ladies in contest XVI, lol...

LeonhartFour also had Rinoa as 46th in the stats he posted for her in contest XIX so it's not a lefty error, I guess the question is whether contest hosts maintain a master stats file that they hand off to the next host, in which case it's a question for FFDragon... or if lefty has maintained his own statslist all along like he does for SMFAS, then it would be the Fandom page that's been incorrect. I assume that was the source for your site?

I made my own STATS spreadsheet. I would've just used the results as they were posted on the B8 Wiki, so if there was an error, it would've been in posting it on there, I guess.

I built mine from trawling the wiki as well, just individually so I guess that's how you catch things like this!

The master file I emailed Leon in 2015 has Rinoa at 46 and Quistis at 47

Oh right, you did send me a text file, too. I forgot about that. I used that to keep track of records and extra stats.

I'm assuming whoever created the wiki page flipped the names (do we know who made them/when they were made?) but there is still a nonzero chance that FFD made an error in his master file... I guess we'll never know for certain unless someone else has some other piece of archival or contemporaneous evidence from back then.

GuessMyUserName posted...

okay i got the min/max filters working

https://aerispies.com/stats/contests/stats?minrun=14&maxrun=19&mincon=3&maxcon=5&show=1&contests=SMFFFC

Two thumbs up on the new site!

according to the wiki history, the XVI page was created by lefty in 2014 with 100. Nael 99. Basch and is gradually updated by him to add results as they happen-ish

first update is to add 98. Genesis, then nothing until backlogging to 79. Setzer

then to 76. Red, to 69. Cissnei, to 59. Auron..... to 48. Shantotto... then the June 1st 2014 update adds 47 Rinoa, 46 Quistis, 45 Jecht (L) and yeah the rest is history

I'm fairly certain I had made my own spreadsheet by CXVI and I also have Quistis 47/Rinoa 46

I have no idea how that mistake would have happened so I blame whoever lawyered Jecht

Checking back in old notepad files, I have updates from the top 37 of both XIV and XV. Quistis was in the bottom 6 of one round and Rinoa in the bottom 4 of the other. Nothing remotely helpful but I thought it was a funny coincidence.

Then I checked archive.org and found URLs for round 60, 61 and 67 of XVI, any of which would show the true order. None of the threads themselves are archived, though, nor any other thread I clicked on from board 8 in that time period, so extremely unlikely any of the other SMFFFC threads are archived there, either.

lol figures I respond seconds after it's actually resolved <_<

ooookay I've added the current contests results now so I can now see the numbers are lining up as they should (aside from Rinoa v Quistis lol dunno what to do there *edit* oh hey that's conclusive 2 posts up)

https://aerispies.com/stats/contests/stats?minrun=20&mincon=4&contests=SMFFFC

so yeah example I can see X-Death leftySTATS 53rd/68 here with same %, and for the overall / newstats eras I'm just +2 on the totals for keeping the Bravely data

Mog stats are gonna be glitched though until I make some changes regarding the new database structure to accommodate the duplicate names

https://aerispies.com/stats/saves/Mog/performance?contests=SMFFFC

Mogvi's placement history, Mogdffoo's series entry, Mogxiii2's XXV placement lmao

I think I'm done for tonight though, tomorrow I gotta get started on the scanner so i can start archiving the existing saves before they purge!

th3l3fty posted...

I'm fairly certain I had made my own spreadsheet by CXVI and I also have Quistis 47/Rinoa 46

I have no idea how that mistake would have happened so I blame whoever lawyered Jecht

Your penance can be correcting the XVI page + creating the XXIV page, np