We have to go to T Bonez in Louisville to evade the Mesa machinations at 3.88 t100/gold.

My own place is middle of the pack at 828k/gold and maybe top quartile at 561k/medal, needing just under 14 t100/gold
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Being a numbers geek, I follow a lot of data that does not and will never relate to myself or where I play. Top bar rankings are one such, and all of us are familiar with the leaders there. But are we?

Consider how business works. If your revenue is $5B and your competitor's is $3B you are the biggest in the market space. But if your COGS and SG&A ARE $4.5B and theirs are $2B, not only are they more profitable but perhaps more importantly, much more efficient. For the sports fans, the Yankees win a crapload more games than, say, the Pirates. But their payroll is many times greater - each W costs a lot more in Yankeeland (yes - I know they are also very profitable - just illustrating one point here).

So I started looking at bar efficiency - how much input (points or games) creates how much output (medals and rankings)?

Now obviously this is a bit skewed as the number of points needed to win a LT game and those needed to win SD are very different. But over a six month period and considering that BT/CD/LT make up the huge bulk of games I suspect the impact is not massive. Also we all know not all medals are equal for prowess, but they are for rankings.

Turns out Bob's Place rules the roost on points/medal efficiency. They need only 100180 total pts per gold and 62016 per medal (with LT about 1/3 of them)

Perhaps even more eyepopping is the game "quality" stat - the ratio of top 100 games which are golds. Here the shenanigans come into play with BWW Mesa needing only 1.7 top 100 games per gold (timezone assisted).

We have to go to T Bonez in Louisville to evade the Mesa machinations at 3.88 t100/gold.

My own place is middle of the pack at 828k/gold and maybe top quartile at 561k/medal, needing just under 14 t100/gold

Perennial superpower 86th Street is 187.6k/gold, 150k/medal and golds once every 9.75 top 100 games. Their only close rival Demoris trails a bit in pts efficiency at 199.6k and 151.7k, but edges them out needing only 9.2 top scores to get a gold.

......Also, teams with heavy percentages in showdown, sports trivia challenge, six, spotlight, playback would skew the numbers pretty well given the total points possible and the near impossibility to obtain more than one gold in a game.

I know what you mean, but a bar that heavily slanted in medal counts is unlikely. Think of it this way - if a bar won every single gold for six months in SD, it would barely break the top 200 I'm looking at, and that's pretty much impossible anyway. A bar at the top of the tree like yours could win every single premium game for 6 months and still have that be less than 18% of your golds.

Interesting stuff, but stats can be so misleading. It still comes down to whether you like the bar and other players.

A lot of players don't regularly play at the location that gets credit for the medals and wins. You can't differentiate between team golds and individual golds. And over the years I've found it amusing that some very very good players have few if any medals while some very average players have lots of medals ( maybe it's the games and time of day they play?) and now there are a few strutting about with lot of iphone medals. Consider Indigo Joe's in Wildwood Missouri with 43 golds and only a couple of them earned not using the iphone scam.

Two very important stats to me that Buzztime no longers displays are the locations activity rank and the last time the site reported.