The spreadsheet is available as a webpage here. This should allow more than 50 people at a time to access the document and should, therefore, alleviate some of the performance issues. The downside is that if I forget to hit "Republish Now" every time I update it, it may or may not update in real time (it claims to update every 5 minutes automatically; we'll see).
There are a lot of quirks going on here. Some of the important ones:
- No, I do not have bracket information, nor would I give it to you if I had it. I will probably spend most of Round 1 changing teams like "D2" and "F5" to real teams, which means that there will be no updating for a while early Saturday morning. Also, this information will be scrambled such that, for instance, "D2" will not necessarily correspond to the second seed in the fourth bracket.
- No, I do not have access to the NSC schedule either. I just made up a plausible round-robin schedule that may or may not be what PACE is using. This means that scores may be entered for rounds in which they are not played.
- The only statistics on here will be game winners and points scored in each game. Teams are ranked in the standings pages first by number of wins, then by total points within the given round-robin. This means that some parts of the tournament (like the wild-card playoffs) may be inaccurately predicted even after all necessary scores are in. I have ways of manually working around this.
- This also means that predicted brackets for future stages will be updated in "real time" as well.
- I will be dealing with tiebreakers manually. Mini-match 1 tiebreaker wins/byes get 0.5 extra wins, mini-match 2 tiebreaker wins get 0.25 extra wins.
- Yes, I'm aware there's nothing on the "Finals" sheet right now. That's because I've coded for every likely finals scenario, and predictions of which one it is won't show up until the first superplayoff game (the carryover game) is entered.