CFC Member Stats

[Garland Best]

Re: CFC Member Stats

If someone wants to make the effort, download the text file from the CFC database, convert to excel, and sort by rating. Then a couple of lookup and count functions should be able to generate the numbers.

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Is there anywhere you can find how many players there are in a certain rating group across Canada and each region?. ie U2200,U2000,U1800,U1600,U1400,U1200,U1000

It would be interesting to know how to set up sections based on number of rated members.

John, with all due respect, I wish everyone would stop asking all these questions.
Paul may choose to reply, as he does have access to some summary data.
I haven't kept up to it, so I can't comment intelligently.
But I would say, someone who is good at computer data manipulation could use the TD list (available on the website) to answer some of your questions.

But I would make 2 comments:

Aggregate data nationwide would be useless to a local tournament organizer. Canada is made up of many distinct chess communities. The differences can be great as to member profiles re. age, rating, etc.

The CFC rating software was written in 1996. Asking it to compete with 21st century software as to data mining etc. is a tall order. The effort involved is not cost benefit effective. The CFC rating software continues to perform well and we certainly have gotten our money's worth, the CFC voting members should give serious consideration to building / purchasing a new 21st century program.

[John Brown]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Is there anywhere you can find how many players there are in a certain rating group across Canada and each region?. ie U2200,U2000,U1800,U1600,U1400,U1200,U1000

It would be interesting to know how to set up sections based on number of rated members.

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: CFC Member Stats

We did it, again.
Member Stats for October 1, 2017 = 2,241
That's a health jump for 1 month.
Memberships expiring on Oct 1 = 145
So, today we are back down to 2,096.
Can we keep the upward trend going for Nov 1?

To quote Maxwell Smart, missed it by that much!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-NkyEFTmo

Member Stats for Nov 1 = 2,228
A tiny drop this month.
Memberships expiring on Nov 1 = 123
So, today we are back down to 2,105

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: CFC Member Stats

We are currently working on automating such a mail-out system.

iirc, it was working some years ago.

[Fred McKim]

Re: CFC Member Stats

I check his rating after he plays tournament. He didn't play much this summer and I remembered to renew his membership because I was checking list of upcoming tournaments and decided to check his rating too.
It would be nice to receive email remainder that membership is about to expire with a link to make payment.
I wouldn't mind to sign up for an automatic annual renewal on PayPal as he likes to play chess and I hope this will be something he will enjoy for many years to come.

We are currently working on automating such a mail-out system.

[Neil Frarey]

Re: CFC Member Stats

I check his rating after he plays tournament. He didn't play much this summer and I remembered to renew his membership because I was checking list of upcoming tournaments and decided to check his rating too.
It would be nice to receive email remainder that membership is about to expire with a link to make payment.
I wouldn't mind to sign up for an automatic annual renewal on PayPal as he likes to play chess and I hope this will be something he will enjoy for many years to come.

Keep talking Alex, good stuff! More and more members should speak up about just what you're saying ...it should've been done a long time ago!

Your idea of 6 months payment plan for a life membership is pure gold too.

[Alex Starks]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Hi Alex ;
Does your son or you not check his rating? The expiry date is in the list of info.

I check his rating after he plays tournament. He didn't play much this summer and I remembered to renew his membership because I was checking list of upcoming tournaments and decided to check his rating too.
It would be nice to receive email remainder that membership is about to expire with a link to make payment.
I wouldn't mind to sign up for an automatic annual renewal on PayPal as he likes to play chess and I hope this will be something he will enjoy for many years to come.

[John Brown]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Hi Alex ;
Does your son or you not check his rating? The expiry date is in the list of info.

[Alex Starks]

Re: CFC Member Stats

I renewed my son's CFC membership in September. We never received any notification that his membership is about to expire.
Do you remind members that their membership is due for renewal? That should not be difficult to do, and could reduce those monthly jumps in member counts.
PayPal has an option for preapproved automatic payments. Why not implement something like that?
How about 6-month payment plan for life time membership?

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: CFC Member Stats

We did it, again.
Member Stats for October 1, 2017 = 2,241
That's a health jump for 1 month.
Memberships expiring on Oct 1 = 145
So, today we are back down to 2,096.
Can we keep the upward trend going for Nov 1?

Hi Bob G:

1. Do you think this upward trend is due to there being more rated Canadian Tournaments, thus generating some of the "new" (As opposed to "renewed") members?

2. Do you think there are fewer new tournament players now taking out only " 1 Tournament Payments" (Called by some "Tournament Memberships", but I think this is just confusing; these tournament players are in no way CFC members)?

3. To what extent are CFC Tournament active clubs generating these new CFC members?

Bob A

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: CFC Member Stats

The upward trend on memberships is continuing.
Final count as of Sept 1 = 2,207
Then 80 members dropped off the list expiring Sept 1 (2,127)
Then the count climbs during the month,
Count as of today (Sept 19) = 2,196
It looks like Oct 1 will be higher again.

We did it, again.
Member Stats for October 1, 2017 = 2,241
That's a health jump for 1 month.
Memberships expiring on Oct 1 = 145
So, today we are back down to 2,096.
Can we keep the upward trend going for Nov 1?

[Bob Gillanders]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Before the CFC-FQE agreement came into effect, there were (let's say) 100 CFC members in Quebec. Assuming they are all still living in Quebec and playing in tournaments, they are now FQE members only. So have we suddenly lost 100 CFC members in the membership stats?

Hugh, you can find the annual membership stats on the CFC website here

http://chess.ca/membership-stats

You can see that May 2012 (prior to agreement) there were 115 CFC members in Quebec.
In May 2013 (agreement in effect), there are 42 CFC members in Quebec.
The Honorary and Life members remained in the totals, but regular Adult and Junior members dropped from the count.

So, yes, you make a good point.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Before the CFC-FQE agreement came into effect, there were (let's say) 100 CFC members in Quebec. Assuming they are all still living in Quebec and playing in tournaments, they are now FQE members only. So have we suddenly lost 100 CFC members in the membership stats?

[Fred McKim]

Re: CFC Member Stats

Bob wrote:



Yes - but what about others living on Quebec? Does the count of CFC members in Quebec only include CFC life members? Are all others assumed to be FQE members only and not counted in the CFC count?

At the moment we are factually reporting CFC Members, perhaps Bob should start releasing the number of players who have participated in a Regular rated event in the past year. We do now have access to it.