Here's another way to "Analyze your Netflix rental history and determine exactly how much you've been paying per rental, compare it to what you would have paid somewhere else, and compute your savings."
This one is online, so there's no spreadsheet involved, just a box where you paste your history. The results are nicely formatted. It gives you an estimate of your "limit" (how many discs you can rent before Netflix de-prioritizes you), which is entirely hypothetical. It doesn't allow you to include more than one plan at a time, so you need to know when you changed plans and split your history to calculate each separately.
The problem with this tool and that of frogcircus' is the omission of throttling (withholding shipments) from the results. Theoretically, it may be possible to rent 45 movies a month except Netflix's accounting system prevents it from happening. Tallrock's rental simulator takes throttling into consideration providing more realistic results. Very rarely do I hold on to a rental for "4 days" as this web site claims--this is the effects of Netflix withholding shipments.
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