I know what you mean, but that's basically what my program does. And that's why I wanted a program, because all those years ago, I really did try to track all that stuff with notes. I didn't think I would ever be able to write a program that could do that and, truthfully, until just a very few years ago, there wasn't an idiot-proof computer programming language that was also powerful enough to handle the titanic amount of data that the Sync program produces (the "temporary" file my Sync program produced for today's report was 1,546,000 LINES long!!!) and then manipulates until it all boils down to a tiny little shorthand table that fits on a page. Here is the full report that came out of 1,546,000 lines of temporary data (including today's straight winner).
Sync Workup (# days apart,# times,leader #,follower #)
42,2,788,046
40,2,061,851
40,2,108,741
39,2,026,985
39,2,763,878
38,2,497,905
37,2,736,166
37,2,736,198
37,2,736,286
37,2,736,631
37,2,884,500
37,2,884,885
36,2,735,774
35,2,567,805
34,2,677,831
33,2,296,064
32,2,099,209
31,2,377,198
31,2,377,355
31,2,377,435
30,2,113,310
30,3,113,793
30,2,792,471
29,2,058,287
29,2,058,845
29,2,699,416
29,2,699,891
28,2,821,388
28,2,821,576
27,2,398,588
26,2,596,231
24,2,406,283
24,2,406,844
23,2,539,966
22,2,611,635
22,2,611,696
22,2,611,938
21,2,382,083
21,3,382,529
21,3,435,903
20,2,230,246
20,2,934,583
19,2,172,228
18,2,501,907
18,2,501,993
17,2,382,108
15,2,805,441
14,2,408,589
13,2,406,019
13,2,406,331
13,2,406,394
12,2,443,692
12,2,928,106
12,2,928,496
11,2,231,254
10,2,205,063
10,2,205,449
10,2,205,704
07,2,620,927
07,2,921,104
06,2,554,954
05,2,297,614
04,2,043,068
04,2,793,440
03,2,543,521
03,2,676,049
03,2,676,451
02,2,092,128
01,2,749,518
Every time I run that thing I think about what a monstrous amount of data it crunches to produce that little table.