Preliminary warnings:
1. I have taken your post as fun as you said, but that does not forbid thinking of it a little more.
2. All real facts in this post are based on BoincStats various lists where it is easier and faster to check, count, etc.. a lot of things regarding statistics.


This is a very good reason and there are plenty of even better ones like new projects, fine post-move tuning/cleaning, forum software upgrade, etc... Only from a technical staff workload point of view.

There is another one regarding an essential topic that you have not detailed much: divisions, fine, but on which criteria?
I assume from your post that you are thinking of sorting teams based on how many members they have. I have bad news for you: the next team which should pass your Team Andrax (50 members with 27 active ones) is UVM CEMS, a poor little team with only 3 active members (4 in total), and UH IT HPC should pass Team Andrax some time later, despite its only 7 members (all active).
And it's not better for large teams: the last one which crushed our large Decrypthon team (486 active members out of a total 1065 in BoincStats) is MakeCuresHappen, on its way to the top 5 with all its 6 active members (8 in total)!

So what else? active devices, average daily contribution?... We would probably find cases demonstrating that any criteria that we can think of are not fair in all circumstances.

Why not build your own private division of teams that you consider as of the same strength as yours and keep an eye on them to make sure you are doing well? Or see how you rank on daily contribution and set this rank as your target for overall contribution (if you are not already there).

Just some thoughts...
Keep crunching and having fun with all possible stats that we can find here ot there. Jean.

No "Fan Boys" here ;? In a way small and large can compete in the challenges with the % improvement formats. Think here in fact the smaller teams have much greater potential to win from the biggies as adding few members or machines has for these teams a much greater relative impact.

Anyway, if you see a dust-cloud building and hear some serious racket watch the top seventeen... HAL 9000 said something to Dave ;-)

You absolutely have something here. I really like the idea of divisions. This is the way teams are divided in football and icehockey, so why not in WCG. WCG already has these team challenges, so now teams could get their very own badge system as well...

And how about stealing some more ideas, straight from team sports? Top 20 teams play in league and others in divisions 1, div 2 and so on. Then we get playoffs and finals. And of course, at the end of the season, last teams of the category play againts top teams of the lower category. I think moving between divisions, and league, might really be the catch here. Scoring system will be "Team accumulated points in one week".

I tried. Who's next.

Hi every body,

I think that to do a lot of suggestions is good, but it is a dream to see all of them implemented.
I presume WCG staff has a lot of work to maintain serveurs, WCG site and forum, prepare the new projects that arrive regularly, ...
So suggestions can help to perform this site/forum or give some good ideas for futur but if an idea would take too much time, i'm not sure that it must be retain.
Priority to the research.
That's why i'm here, to crunch and help scientist.
I like features on this site/forum but it is not a priority for me.

mikaok, I agree. LOL! This idea would be great and a lot of fun and even more competitive. Maybe WCG can implement this whenever.

I have ideas (like many others) how WCG can make this a simple process. Very easy to implement. "Club Teams", "University Teams", "National Teams," "value-added Teams" (you folks know what I mean; just look at a few of the Top Teams here).

Geez, this would really light the "competitive fire" of so many Teams.

And yes, it would be great fun!