Guild Wars 2

SO, I was thinking, what is the big change that needs to make the ranking algorithms work right? Math and open data. Yup, that’s it. And mostly just the math. And there are lots of people on here who think they have a good idea on how to fix it. So, here is my idea. There are many fans in GW2, and some of us, such as myself, have higher education in mathematics or similar studies. So, why not USE the massive idea pool that they have here? I’m guessing there are many people here who love WvW, who would love to put their education into use to help ANet, maybe even for free, with just recognition.

Anet could simply offer a challenge, to run for say 2 weeks or a month. They could give out lots of data publicly available. What kind of data? Well, data such as:
1. Server rankings for the past few months
2. Server populations for the past few months
3. Server activity for the past few months (if they have it)
Then simply let their massive fan base do it! They could even offer something special for the person who, in their view, has the best algorithm. Like what? Well, here are some options:
1. Free expansion packs for the rest of the game (really, compared to cost of hiring someone to do this, it’d be much cheaper)
2. A special set of cosmetic armor just for him/her and a special set of weapons
3. Special title
4. A certain amount of gems per month for some amount of time

I know that I myself would love to try to develop some new algorithm that might help the rankings, especially in the lower tiers, and to help keep stable the servers for long term. I know the server rankings are getting better slowly, but for some servers every week of getting stomped is just hurting them more.

SO, ideas? Just an idea I had randomly!