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I found the "User Leagues" for the first time and decided to check my score for the year. I was surprised to see that my rank had apparently decreased by 10242 year-over-year.
(I used to be 30th?? - awesome!)

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I've only been a member for 16 days, and this looked a little strange, so I thought I'd read about the User Leagues rankings on Meta Stack Overflow. When I linked through to the User Leagues a 2nd time (in another tab), I found that my rank now showed and wihh an increase of 18616.

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Has anyone else seen this? Is this a bug or is this common for newer users, and I missed the explanation elsewhere?

Thanks.

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This should be better now. The green "+18616" number is the correct one: if you don't have previous rank, we rank you dead last, so the first week/month/etc you appear you jump way up.

There was some strange inconsistency between the webservers, which is why the correct number showed up only some of the time.

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On further thought, "+18616" is still a bit confusing, so we'll just show "not previously ranked" for those users.

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  • Yes, I got all sorts of different results when I checked yearly & quarterly rankings. But as of this morning... it looks to be fixed.
    – S.Jones
    Sep 8, 2010 at 17:24
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Since you’ve been a member for only 16 days, there is no data for you for last year. Therefore it’s probably a bug arising from bad error handling: the programmer failed to take this situation into account, so the number displayed is garbage.

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  • Yeah, exactly - thanks. I was seeing the same thing when I checked quarterly rankings as well (no history == funny results). Just wondering if this was a known bug.
    – S.Jones
    Sep 8, 2010 at 17:21

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