How to calculate rank; local to site and globally?

Question

With the available data points, how would you rank users, both on a site basis as well as globally?

Right now I am simply sorting on reputation desc, creation_date, user_id, display_name.

This closely approximates the order of appearance on the Users page but seems to me simplistic.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how to arrive at a valid ranking?

Assume that you have a current database of all users.

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_{yes, this is me asking a question, not setting up a dev-tip ;-)}

Answer 1

Well, would it work to rank globally based on relative rankings for each site? I'm just thinking out loud.

Here's how it works:

• For each site, the user's relative ranking is determined as a percentage.
• The percentages are averaged.

The last step isn't very good - I don't think it'll work very well, but it's an idea.