Summer 2016 Week 4 FML Comparator Update

http://compare.fmlnerd.com/

Some updates worth mentioning:

• For this Monday data update, I've set returning films to the average value of the new films that have Long Range Forecasts, with some rounding error. This is an attempt to set a "Price Bar" so that films can be more easily compared relative to each other earlier in the week.

• The top left table has been rearranged to show more relevant data. Gone are the original values the tool gets initialized with (forecasts and deltas) and a new addition is the change a movie had last week. While this value is irrelevant for new films and films in their second week, it is incredibly relevant for others. Comparing this new value to the percent change your forecasts cause can be useful since many films, especially those not adding theaters or that have been poorly reviewed, tend to see their percent change drop over time.

By putting the numbers in this order, it makes it easier to see what films may need theater count help in order to have certain holds. Note that the color coding remains for when you change the estimates above/below what I set them to and you can still return the the original settings my moving the sliders back to the middle.

• Longer film titles with taglines or subtitles have now been shortened to display only the portion of the title that appears before a ":" so that information throughout the tables is easier to read.

• The data set now contains every possible combination, given pricing, each week instead of the previous limit of 150,000. Prior data techniques were improved upon in order to accomplish this and should result in faster page load times for most people, especially those on slow Internet connections.

• Finally, I fixed a bug when viewed on Mozilla that was causing the percentage text input to be too wide and forcing the "Set" button on another line. It looks much cleaner now.

• Other improvements are on their way throughout the summer as I migrate this to a new code base for a second generation of tooling. This includes the ability to save your work, a consolidation of Showtimes and Top 100 pages into the same site with common navigation instead of separate domain names as they are now, and new data tools including iSpotTV metrics, a comp finder, and a Thursday night data explorer.

As always, if you find any issues let me know on this thread and I'll do my best to fix them.