Printing standings of previous rounds in WER
Ernst, yup, that idea would work reasonably well (unless I wanted to publish those standings, in which case they should definitely not include dropped players). In this particular case the tournament had already been finished and reported, and the TO asked me for the standings of the top 8 after swiss. So, with mush wailing and gnashing of teeth, I took the final standings of all players, and then worked back from them based on the top 8 matches.