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feature request: My Statistics page

Currently, my state page tells me "Points Generated (Rank) 322,787 (#125,400)". Neither of those values are actually meaningful. What would be infinitely more useful is instead of the rank, #125,400-- WHICH IS MEANINGLESS SINCE I DON'T KNOW OUT OF HOW MANY, SO IT ONLY TELLS ME HALF THE PICTURE-- more meaningful would be the -=percentile=-. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile

Just a thought...
Jeff
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Hi Jeff. I know that the top crunchers use the rankings in a very granular manner and therefore would probably not want to see them go. However, for us mere mortals, I think that the addition of percentiles would help give some perspective and encouragement, so perhaps this is something that can be added to the rankings?

Gets my vote

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Re: feature request: My Statistics page

Currently, my state page tells me "Points Generated (Rank) 322,787 (#125,400)". Neither of those values are actually meaningful. What would be infinitely more useful is instead of the rank, #125,400-- which is meaningless since I don't know out of how many, so it only tells me half the picture-- more meaningful would be the -=percentile=-. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile

Just a thought...
Jeff

Thanks for the suggestion.
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Certainly gets my vote as well biggrin
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Re: feature request: My Statistics page

Me too!
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cmvi :-)

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Re: feature request: My Statistics page

After sleeping on it, the current ranking only tells me how many folks have contributed more than I. If the rankings were reversed, it would only tell me how many folks I'm contributing more than, which is equally useless. I desire the rankings to be expressed as a percentile only since it gives me a feel for where I rank in terms of how much I contribute to W.C.G. -=in relation to others=-. I want to know that since in the original post my rank was #125,400, and if that is 125,400th out of 125,400 participants, wow, I'm am the worst contributor. (but at least I DO contribute, which is already a win) ([sarcasm] and not that I'm competitive or anything) If that is 125,400th out of 1,000,000,000,000 participants, all right then, you're welcome W.C.G. :-)

And I agree with gordoma that this should not be a change, it should only be an new additional statistic. [PREMISE] Change the way something works and you'll always upset folks. [/PREMISE] But the ranking as it is doesn't give me any *useful* feedback, so I vote for either (a) add the percentile ranking, or (b) take away the ranking altogether, but because of the preceding premise, that won't go well. Also, well said gordoma, it's about perspective and encouragement. And getting folks interested in increasing their -=percentile=- results in an orgasmic flurry of more and more CPU cycles donated, since as person A increases their donation, their percentile goes up... until person B also increases their donated cycles and A drops back down again. And instead of two people, scale that to the size of the W.C.G. user-base...
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We have added this to our development backlog for consideration.
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Re: feature request: My Statistics page

Hi guys,
take a look on boincstats , it does provide exactly the information you are requesting.
Cheers,
Yves
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Re: feature request: My Statistics page

Hi guys,
take a look on boincstats , it does provide exactly the information you are requesting.
Cheers,
Yves
+1

Or any of the other couple dozen or so BOINC stats sites.

The only real change that I would suggest is that it is time to drop the "WCG points" and display the BOINC credits (just as on the "Result Status" page)...

Ralf
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