New contest in 2013?

[book]

So, what's going to happen on the first week of 2013? A reboot of the contest would be nice, as it would allow new players to join. And everyone would start equal.

If you run yearly contests, you should also compute leaderboards for all years since 1995. :-)

[madsen]

I'm thinking that the next contest should begin the week of January 6. 2013 doesn't start on a Sunday like 2012 did, but that gives people a little more time to make a resolution.

I'm currently in the process of restructuring the database to properly handle multiple contests. I'm nearly done with that, but I've just started a new job, so I'm a bit busy. I should have it done by the end of the year, though.

[book]

Did you manage to find the time for this?

[madsen]

Not completely. It's mostly done, so I'm just going to check in what I've got to the multiple-contests branch. One thing that's not finished is handling the end of a contest. My current thinking is that when a contest ends, any chains still in progress should be allowed to continue growing, but no new chains can start. That's not what the code does, though. It just stops all chains at the contest end date.

The other main thing that's not done is adding the 2013 contest to the web page. Actually, it should probably replace the 2012 contest, and the 2012 contest should be added somewhere.

If you'd like to finish this up, that'd be great.

[book]

If a contest spans a year, it would make sense to stop it at the last week of the year. So the highest possible score for a given year would be 52±1, and would start at 0 on any given year.

And then there would be the "historical" contest, that just takes the longuest chains of all times, active or not.

I'll have a look at the branch. Thanks for pushing it.

[book]

See #5 and madsen/cpan-once-a-week-data#1.