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TalonMan said:
Dankaroo said:

That's great to hear. And also great to see that Machina is aiming to get to a 4 weeks trailing set up as we had prior to E3 2017. Looking forward to it all and appreciate all the help and work being put towards this site.

Ideally, I want to reduce the workload and get the processing clean enough to get us closer to no more than TWO WEEKS trailing - that is my ultimate goal!! And really, the reason I am aiming so high, is because I believe we need to be fairly current (or as close to current as we can get), in order to run a successful Prediction League.

BUT, I will NOT stand on Machina and demand unrealistic goals. We'll just have to play this by ear and see exactly how close we can get, without sacrificing accuracy too greatly... :)

I think that ambitious goal of two weeks and possibly even 1 week trailing can happen as long as a system is in place where there is an updated query that is running 4 weeks behind that simply updates the numbers to more accurate numbers. This delayed query can have more manual intervention to account for any sales announcements from companies and NPD numbers, etc. 

Again, this would be a long term goal but what do you guys think about this dual query set up? It favours time and accuracy.