This post was published 4 years 9 months 3 days ago. Therefore, it may well be out of date. Do not reply on the contents of this post being accurate. I wrote in the previous post that Easynet was ranked #1 in all-time points generated by a team. Strictly speaking, this is perfectly true. However, a keen eye will spot that although team IBM is ranked #4 (and rapidly closing on Slashdot Users in third) there are many other IBM teams.
I was curious what the combined points would be from all IBM teams; after all, within IBM we promote that we are one team — we are all IBMers.
So, I pondered the best way to work this out (i.e. quickest, because it’s not really that important, I was just curious). A quick copy-and-paste from the statistics pages into Excel (actually 20 c-n-p as there are 5000 teams with a maximum of 250 displayed per page) gave me all teams. I then performed a custom filter showing team names that contained IBM and, hey presto, I had a pretty good idea.
The results are as follows (at the time of this posting):
Number of teams with IBM in the team name = 533
Combined all-time points from above teams = 3,060,238,015
Easynet all-time points = 1,622,951,219
Clearly, if all IBMers were in team IBM then we’d be streets ahead in the points ranking (over 1.4 billion of them).
Of course, none of this matters in the slightest — what does matter is that collectively all 289 million members have so far contributed 88,479 years of CPU run-time to help change the world for the better.