As I see there are some problems without submissions (Polygon, The Altars). We know that some programmers consider the SPOJ rank list seriously. I suggest to change rules in order to give more points for more difficult problems.
Example: score for a problem is 1/n, where n is the number of programmers who solved the problem.
Oct '04
Aug '15
This is certainly a suggestion worth adopting. I think it would be best to do this after one or two problemsets of the DASM programming league. This would give us time to work out empirically the optimum number of points that should be awarded in the overall standings for solving classical problems an for top places in challenge problems and public contests. The current formula in the league may be treated as our initial guess at a well balanced scoring rule (though its notation has yet to be simplified).
archived Aug 28, '15
archived Aug 28, '15
