[CQ-Contest] Extended Line Score - Hours Worked

[David Gilbert]

I've always thought that a single large public file representing the 
merged data from all submitted logs would offer all kinds of interesting 
statistics ... some fairly simple scripts could probe the data for 
almost anything.  All of the logs are there, and the folks who manage 
pileup.ru have obviously compiled their own master database anyway.  
Actual callsigns wouldn't even have to be used ... each callsign could 
be converted to a unique entry number and treated as text.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 4/1/2013 6:02 PM, Ward Silver wrote:
> By publishing the number of hours worked with the score, using 
> whatever time-on calculation the log-checkers feel is appropriate for 
> that contest, it would be straightforward for an interested 
> third-party to calculate score/hr statistics.
>
> Public, validated logs could also be parsed for all sorts of 
> time-related stats:
> - best first 24 hour score
> - best second 24 hour score
> - best N hour score
> - fastest to N points
> and so on.  It would be the equivalent of baseball's sabermetrics - 
> what is the analog of "slugging percentage"?
>
> If the data was there and someone cared about the calculation, it 
> would probably be performed.  We might find an interesting way to 
> compete that doesn't require a new formal category.  Or we might 
> decide that what we already have is good enough and that more 
> categories don't really change things.  Nevertheless, the impact on 
> the contest sponsors, who have very limited resources, would be minimal.
>
> 73, Ward N0AX