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

News of sorts

I'm working on a few changes to the scoring for the Engagement league, they will likely appear next week
My auto-voter is back on after recovering from zapped VP in the past few days
@steemcommunity are currently running a competition - 50 SBD in prizes!

To enter the leagues drop a comment below (for a lifetime membership - you need 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 (small) 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, the unstoppable @janton! 🏆

That's 6 in a row now, and the score just keeps on growing! @janton has been powering up all the prizes and at these rate the leagues will push him to minnow status by xmas! :D

@glenalbrethsen is back in the prize hunt this week after generously abstaining for a month or so - his level of engagement is worthy of reward and so I'm happy to see him in 2nd this week.

And in 3rd, @themanwithnoname continues his recent run of high engagement - nice work sir!

Excellent engagement levels also from @lynncoyle1, @gillianpearce, @smithlabs, ~~@abh12345~~, @cicisaja, @rentmoney, @hashcash, and @funbobby51 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: @veryspider, @denmarkguy, @bashadow, @mad-runner, @headchange, @davemccoy, @vinzie1, @maverickinvictus, @eveningart, and @crypto-econom1st.

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.

A new name at the top, well done @obulunmaz!

🎁 Prizes 🎁