What is the percentage of tournaments and memberships manually
submitted??
If by ‘manually’ you mean ones that are mailed to the USCF office, 93% of the tournaments processed since 1/1/2008 were submitted online.
Membership data is a little more complicated, but here’s the source for membership transactions since 1/1/2008:
Webstore: 54.3%
TD/Affiliate: 30%
Office: 15.7%
About 2/3 of the memberships processed at the office are received in the mail, the rest are mostly done over the phone.
Rob, did you mean the % of online tournament submissions that did NOT use a data file upload? Example: manually filling in the results in the online crosstable…which would you’d have to pay me lots of money to do for a large tournament…
With a little practice, using the online form isn’t difficult. It’s essentially the same form that the USCF office staff uses when a crosstable is sent to them in paper form.
What I do is start by filling in all the USCF IDs, then do a save on that. This fills in the player names, so you can check them and correct any typos. Then I just start putting in results, saving it after every few rows.
According to our records, for events since 1/1/2008:
6748 were uploaded by the TD
1636 were entered online by the TD
64 were processed by the office using files received on diskette or email
692 were entered online by the USCF office from paper reports
It appears that the largest event entered by TDs using the online form had 341 players in it.
18% using the online form in almost 4 months…impressive. [Edit: 15 months…wasn’t a math major, obviously 
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Gratuitous stat request…what’s the average number of players for the tournaments submitted via online forms?
6748 were uploaded by the TD AVERAGE SIZE 39 players
1636 were entered online by the TD AVERAGE SIZE 17 players
64 were processed by the office using files received on diskette or email AVERAGE SIZE 30 players
692 were entered online by the USCF office from paper reports AVERAGE SIZE 17 players
Also, that data was for events held January 2008 through March 25, 2009, so more like 15 months.