FB Sprint 2026 Notifications

[UBT - Timbo]

Yes no worry Tim, I perfectly understand, and on top of all that we must consider that individual behaviour of each member (= involvement) may also greatly vary from one year to another, so there is no magic wand to make the perfect mix ! I just hope I go back to L3 next year

Hi - Thanks for your understanding.

I have tried to ensure that Teams (and Members) who earn similar BOINC credits on the Sprints, (over the entire season), are matched together as best as possible. This is done to try to help everyone in each League being able to compete on as close to a level playing field as possible.

But there will always be variables and events that will skew the league tables, either in favour (or against) specific Teams (and Members).

The only way around this is to have multiple Leagues, with far fewer participants in each one...and then the competitive element is lost if you are always competing against 3 or 4 other Teams (or Members). It's a juggling act for which there is no perfect solution, so we just have to try to keep it simple and straight forward.

And if you are lucky, then the "League table gods" might grant you your wish But do you really want to be "competing" against Members who have far less desire (or enough host machines) than you, to be #1 in League 3? That's seems like a rather shallow option...

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

The next Sprint starts tomorrow !!

2026-05-21 21:00 UTC - 2026-05-24 21:00 UTC

And the project has now been confirmed that there are no planned maintenance periods for the above dates and plenty of tasks will be available, so we are good to go !

Good luck everyone !

regards
Tim

[JeromeC]

But do you really want to be "competing" against Members who have far less desire (or enough host machines) than you, to be #1 in League 3? That's seems like a rather shallow option...

Well here I think the term "competition" does not apply anymore

I was not #1 at all last year... and remember the words of Julius : "better #1 in my village than #2 in Rome"

[UBT - Timbo]

Well here I think the term "competition" does not apply anymore

I was not #1 at all last year... and remember the words of Julius : "better #1 in my village than #2 in Rome"

I think in an "ideal" world, FB should be a competition between individual hosts...as then it will be a more even spread of contributions - while at present, anyone can host multiple hosts on the same CPID - so one basic PC might be compared to a member who buys time on a cloud server, with multiple CPUs.

As it is, all I can do to try and "level this up", is to make a Grand Total for all the credits each Member (and Team) has earned in all of the Sprints and to then work out an average, based on the number of Sprints they actually participated in.

Then compare the averages and then promote (or relegate) Members (and Teams) into the relevant League where the averages are about the same.

Then each Member (and Team) has a better chance of earning FB points in their respective League.

regards
Tim