Leaderboards: Sorting & Exporting Update

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January 5, 2012

All the leaderboards now preserve sorting in the link, meaning you can sort by whatever you want and share with someone exactly what you were looking at. This is made even easier by the addition of the usual smorgasbord of “share” buttons to the leaderboard pages.

For instance, here are the qualified BsR (baserunning) leaders last season.

Also, sorting now sorts in descending order first. Fans of looking at the league-worst first will just need to click again. Someday we will just have the stats sort from best-to-worst, first, regardless of whether it should be ascending or descending. But in the meantime, having stats sort descending first should save an extra click most of the time.

On the exporting front, playerids are now listed by default at the end of the dataset when exported. Gone are the days of parsing out playerids and player names. Thanks to all those who found and shared workarounds while exporting wasn’t so pretty.

Hat Tip: @GiantsNirvana, @CajoleJuiceEsq, xiefrank

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Bryz
13 years ago

I can just imagine the number of people that will celebrate that columns sort biggest-smallest now.

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Jason Hanselman
13 years ago
Reply to  Bryz

Co-sign, so many wasted clicks

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