Right... the point I was trying to make was that it was much easier to get in the "top 10%" (and earn a major win) way back when the site was in its infancy that it is today.
Neat tool EddyG, but something about it sucks...perhaps my challenge entries?
For 2005
7 points in 21 challenges for 2005 (0.33 points per submission)
7 points in 28 challenges for 2004 (0.25 points per submission)
14 career points in 49 challenges (0.29 points per submission)
Lots of Sevens in there (7, 7x2, 7x3, 7x4, 7x7). Hmmm, does that mean my luck is about to turn?
I was cleaning out my 'Watched Threads' and ran across this one.
I'm not a fan of splitting challenges into 2 groups, but a point race could be fun. :)
The calculator still works! Here's the numbers it spit out for me:
42 points in 65 challenges for 2007 (0.65 points per submission)
199 career points in 278 challenges (0.72 points per submission)
Qualifies for 'Challenge' status (has at least 3 majors and 25 points)
Originally posted by EddyG:
FWIW, I proposed a "point system" a while ago in this post during a discussion about how to break-up challenges in two groups, "newer users" and "more experienced users". At that time, I wrote up some code to make it easy to see how many points a user had, although the actual algorithm differed from what I originally posted. The point system I used was:
Cool! Thanks for bringing this back from the dead Barry! I never knew something like this existed. Thanks eddyg for the calculator. Here is what it spit out for me for 2007:
102 points in 63 challenges for 2007 (1.62 points per submission)
105 career points in 69 challenges (1.52 points per submission)
Qualifies for 'Challenge' status (has at least 3 majors and 25 points)
Here's mine
93 points in 43 challenges for 2007 (2.16 points per submission)
198 career points in 106 challenges (1.87 points per submission)
Qualifies for 'Challenge' status (has at least 3 majors and 25 points)
Kinda cool
Here is william88's, best I found. De Sousa doesn't give out any info I think because of the space in his username.
54 points in 9 challenges for 2007 (6.00 points per submission)
71 career points in 18 challenges (3.94 points per submission)
Qualifies for 'Challenge' status (has at least 3 majors and 25 points)
4 points in 11 challenges for 2007 (0.36 points per submission)
30 points in 29 challenges for 2006 (1.03 points per submission)
43 career points in 64 challenges (0.67 points per submission)
2007 isn't a good year it seems. (at least it was > 1.0 PPS in 2006)
