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Vale Ron Murray aka @LeetoRainestoRoach
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I too like many here didn't know Lee.
I remember ages back thinking how so many here have really cool user names.
This guy had one of the coolest.
Apart from all the stats for me he invoked memories of Richmond dominating in the good old days.
Just by his name.
The General big and strong palming down to Pretty boy on the charge and a bullet low skimmer hitting Disco on the tit 20 out dead in front.
Another Goal to the Tigers!
RIP Lee.
PRE Legend.
I remember ages back thinking how so many here have really cool user names.
This guy had one of the coolest.
Apart from all the stats for me he invoked memories of Richmond dominating in the good old days.
Just by his name.
The General big and strong palming down to Pretty boy on the charge and a bullet low skimmer hitting Disco on the tit 20 out dead in front.
Another Goal to the Tigers!
RIP Lee.
PRE Legend.
RIP L2. We were in furious agreement on old-school naked fanatical one-eyed Richmond loyalty, as many of us are We were always in lockstep on issues of AFL incompetence and corruption, and especially the Essendon drugs scandal and also chopsticksgate. His stats work was amazing, like magic at times.
Can those who have bookmarked, or are able to search and find some of L2R2R's greatest Stats posts, post the links here?
Ron's sister Barb is keen to read these stats that everyone here and on BF keep talking about when we remember Ron.
Admins/Mods, not sure if you want to use this thread or a dedicated LeetoRainestoRoach Greatest Stats thread, will leave it to you.
Ron's sister Barb is keen to read these stats that everyone here and on BF keep talking about when we remember Ron.
Admins/Mods, not sure if you want to use this thread or a dedicated LeetoRainestoRoach Greatest Stats thread, will leave it to you.
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Very sad news. Was incredible the width and breadth of his knowledge of Stats. The incredible thing was he always answered peoples questions about anything related to Stats. Will miss his input very much.
Life is very very short. Live it with passion - Ron's Passion was Stats and he lived it with great enthusiasm.
R.I.P. Ron
Life is very very short. Live it with passion - Ron's Passion was Stats and he lived it with great enthusiasm.
R.I.P. Ron
I'm not sure there is a worthy successor. Ron created that database by himself, it was a part of who he was.
But from a purely technical perspective, the last time I chatted to him about the tech behind it, it wasn't cloud based and he was running it off his equipment at home. While it wouldn't be technically difficult to migrate a database to the cloud (assuming you had root access), the user frontend would need a fair bit of work. If I remember correctly Ron would just write with SQL statements from a console window.
They're only as good as the data feed into it, aren't they? It would need to be constantly updated, ya? Is it a program on a computer? None of us are really computer ppl.
Quite right about keeping it updated. And sorry for your loss. @Baloo and others are across the technicals of it all. I sure am not.
A few years ago I exchanged some emails with him about how he maintained the data.
It's an SQL Server database which he updated every week with a program reading data from finalsiren.com after each round and populating his own database.
Not much more technical detail than that but I do still have the mails if anyone is interested.
It's an SQL Server database which he updated every week with a program reading data from finalsiren.com after each round and populating his own database.
Not much more technical detail than that but I do still have the mails if anyone is interested.
Hosting wouldn’t be an issue. It’s moving it and his sisters agreeing to it. It would need someone close to Ron to make contact.
It seems that I, like some others, have come across this thread a little late. But I would still like to convey my feelings of sadness and loss at the passing of LTRTR - or as I now know him - Ron.
Ron was a key contributor to this forum. He was one of the reasons I have been part of PRE for 17 years. Whether I agreed with some of his views is irrelevant - he always made a strong case for whatever view he expressed - often with humour and wit. I only wish I had 5% of his skill with stats and the energy to share his knowledge with us.
Without a shadow of a doubt - Ron is irreplaceable on PRE.
His family and friends must be shattered at the suddenness of his deterioration. My most deepest condolences to them. And to all other PREnders.
Ron was a key contributor to this forum. He was one of the reasons I have been part of PRE for 17 years. Whether I agreed with some of his views is irrelevant - he always made a strong case for whatever view he expressed - often with humour and wit. I only wish I had 5% of his skill with stats and the energy to share his knowledge with us.
Without a shadow of a doubt - Ron is irreplaceable on PRE.
His family and friends must be shattered at the suddenness of his deterioration. My most deepest condolences to them. And to all other PREnders.
