UPDATE: Here is the new formulated stats. You will notice that your Average and Percentile rank is now different. If you go to your profile you will see that your percentile is a direct average of your entries individually and not based on your yearly Average Score Received.
I have taken ever user that has entered a challenge this year and come up with a ranking system regardless of how many challenges they have entered. However the formula is weighted by entries. The reason for weighting entries is simple; the more challenges you enter the harder it is to maintain a high score or percentile.
The following stats (Entries, 2010 Average, and Percentile) will be ranked individually with the lowest rank being the best. When added together it gives each users their score. The lower their score the better.
Note: The entries rank is weighted by a multiplier of 2.
Here's how everyone ranks as of the last challenge.
Woop! I don't think this'll last too long unless I start submitting a bit more regularly. I think I've got the highest average on that list too - don't know what's happeing this year!
e.t.a - Is there any way that this supermaths could be coded into the site somehow? How sweet would it be to have a live update of "who's hot?".
I don't understand the math/ranking system behind this but wow I'm in 5th place! That's really surprising.
I think that would be due to your averaging being in the top ten percentile-wise.
I notice that all (or virtually all) of the rankings for score and percentile are identical -- that doesn't seem quite right to me.
Yea I know that the two are the same because the percentile is based on the years average. I'm currently trying to write a formula that will extract each challenge percentile then average that after removing the challenges the user did not enter. When I get that formula correct you will see a difference between the Average and percentile scores.
