Welcome to this weeks Engagement and Curation leagues, kindly sponsored by the awesome @curie!

News of sorts

The potential tweaks to the league scoring have not taken place, mainly because I'm happy enough with them and don't wish to break something that seems to be working!
@steemcommunity have picked a winner for the image header/thumbnail and will announce this tomorrow

To enter the leagues drop a comment below (for a lifetime membership - you need to ask to be removed)

The league tables are reset each week and so any time is a good time to join!

On your marks, get set, curate!

The Engagement League - Sponsored by @curie

This league is not based around financial rewards and relates to engagement.

Everyone currently on my master list has a chance here - including those powering down or dealing in delegations over the past couple of weeks.

I've used some metrics (which is the fancy way of saying that made up some numbers) relating to:

Posts (P)
Comments - number of (C)
Comments - replies to replies - depth > 2 (C R)
Comments - length in characters (C L)
Witness votes (W) (for those proxying witness votes, your total is always 30)
Upvotes to others (V)
Upvotes to different authors (U V)
Self-votes - a (getting smaller each week) minus score for this one sorry! (S V)

Firstly, if you are placed in the table above then you among the top 20% of the league entrants!

Congratulations to this weeks Engagement League winner, 7 in a row, you guessed it...... @janton! 🏆

@glenalbrethsen is a lot closer this week, but the sheer number of comments seems to have won the day over the chunkier responses. Well done both!

The lovely @lynncoyle1 moves up to 3rd place, and that's with Sundays off (at least that's what she tells me anyway!)

Excellent engagement levels also from ~~@abh12345~~, @cicisaja, @themanwithnoname, @gillianpearce, @smithlabs, @teutonium, @hashcash, and @artgirl who will all be receiving some STEEM this week.

Those without a self-vote (from their main account at least! 😱) and placed in the top ranks will also receive a little STEEM. These people are: @mariannewest, @ecoinstant, @davemccoy, @bashadow, @denmarkguy, @veryspider, @headchange, and @mountainjewel.

Well done everyone!

The Curation League / Rewards based

The raw data has been collected from SteemSQL - @arcange's MS SQL Server copy of the Steem Blockchain.

The formula used for 'quality of financial curation skill' is:

Curation Rewards DIVIDED BY Steem Power MULTIPLIED BY 1000

This will return the amount of Curation rewards gained per 1000 Steem Power held

The rules (which will cause auto-filtering of your account if not met so just enter anyway and see what happens!) to appear in this league:

No programmed voting! Following a trail is OK, using a script to vote for you is not (but well done if you have done that!)
Must have voted at least once on a piece of content in the past 7 days
Must not have leased or delegated Steem Power in the last 14 days
Must not have Started a Power Down (withdrawal of Steem Power) in the last 15 days

The 2nd and 3rd points above are not 'bad' actions, but are required to reduce distortion of the figures.

And, as curation rewards for the past week are actually taken from votes made up to 14 days ago, we need a two week 'window' as mentioned above.

Don't let this put you off entering though - you will be automatically be excluded/appear each week, depending on the criteria above.

The end column is what I think is a genuine indicator of how well you are financially working the curation game with the tools, including vested Steem Power, that you have at your disposal.

Well done @steemitri, back at the top!

🎁 Prizes 🎁