Thanks for the participation, Laurentina! (You actually on the list already, but that's when you had only 411 hits).
I have stopped updating this list two years go mainly for two reasons:
- I was never satisfied with the "meaningless" numbers in the ranking.
- It is a manual time-consuming task.
Well, as to the first point, today I had an epiphany. I honestly don't understand how I haven't thought of this before. In fact, you just have to calculate the square root of this big number in order for it to have some very obvious meaning.
Let me explain:
This ranking is meant to value EBTors who have the luck of having the largest percentage of highly
significant hits, both in terms of distance and time. But how do you rank something that reflects two variables and not only one?
Here are some really good hits from 2024, as an example:
https://eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=238934130 - 11821 km, 1708 days
https://eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=239269111 - 11525 km, 318 days
https://eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=240200067 - 1368 km, 6867 days
https://eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=238619623 - 2118 km, 6103 days
The first of these is obviously the best. What about the other three? How do you access their "value" for an EBTor? How do you rank their
journey significance?
A simple multiplication (distance × time) is not a bad idea to rank them, but see the results below for the previous examples:
20190268
3664950
9394056
12926154
What does a number like 1000000 or 300000 mean here? Is 300000 very good, modestly good, average? It's not intuitive.
In order for this kind of score to be meaningful, you might want to calculate its square root. Why? Because then you have a unit that is in the same range of both hit distance and hit time. Here are the rounded results for √(km × days) (rounded results):
4493
1914
3065
3595
Looking at these "
Journey Units" (let's call it that way), you instantly get that, for example, the last hit (2118 km, 6103 days) is about as significant as a hit with 3595 km, 3595 days.
These Journey Units can also be defined as the
geometric mean between distance in km and time in days.
So, now that I am ready to calculate the Journey Significance Index for each in (in Journey Units), I am also ready to redo the first page applying the same logic to how to score/evaluate a set of hits, namely each EBTor se of hits.
Or maybe the multiplication factors (km and days) have to be weighted before multiplying… Hmm… Now I must think about it for some time more (hopefully not two more years…)
