Hello to All,
I do follow this thread, although I have not commented before because our application will not get processed any time soon. With reference to the calculator, we applied for 143 on 27/01/17. I checked the Queue calculator on 28/05/20 and there was 13340 people ahead of us. so from 20/9/16 to 27/1/17 there must have been approx. 4120 extra applications according to the calculator. According to the spreadsheet above the figure is just over 3800 (approx.). So in this case the spreadsheet is a good tool for guidance and we all must remember that nothing is certain, so many things can change over time.