Is it possible we could get a simple and sweet top 10 list of all time daily high scores? I don't know maybe it would crash the site!

My reasoning is this. In the past we had a badge for people who topped the daily score in a day. That badge has since been retired. But while this is a perfectly valid metric (total points in a day), there is no recognition that I'm aware of for this feat. So my thinking is just have something short and simple, just a little top 10 list, or 50, or 100, it doesn't matter. What I mean by crash though is do we really need dozens or hundreds of feverish trivia players hopped up on trivia playing for 24 hours? Just some thoughts.

The highest per day badge - Endurance - still exists. It's only the limited "best of 10,000 people who joined about the same time you did" one - Best of Class - that was retired.

I don't think there's a record of the best highest raw points scores per day stored anywhere. For comparing single-day performances, we have the Everything Challenge, measuring actual play prowess instead of just endurance.

The "hall of fame" records the last 25 days or so.

http://www.funtrivia.com/pointstoday_HOF.cfm

Wonder if it goes back further for administrators.

On August 2, 2014, one of my teammates once had a score of 86,558 FT points for the day. So the high score is at least that. (And think of the poor runner up that day who had over 83,000 points and did not win the endurance badge - although it is in their profile now so they must have either already had it or won it since then.)

I can't get any more data than that. Terry might be able to, but I doubt it. Most of the play data is kept only for a limited time.

Also, even if it were possible to reconstruct the top scores, they would not necessarily be comparable across the years (many really high scores from the early years were achieved with 10 points per correct quiz answer, not 15!)

There are also problems with an all-time high score that result from possible cheating (I can immediately think of at least one way to gain a major unfair advantage). So let's just say no. If a significant number of players want some more all-time highscores, we might want to look at such things as keeping permanent records of the GC 6-set totals or the sum of all 15 duels. Maybe we could even think of a new "endurance" game if there's interest, such as one that would require playing 50 category mixes of your own choice in one day (with some extra restrictions so players couldn't just do the easiest 50 they can think of).

I'm a data junkie so any tables are good tables for me. A GC record table, a Duel record table, those would be awesome. I just don't know that there's enough people interested in that kind of thing to justify it. But I for one would enjoy competing against other players for something as simple as a GC total even for nothing more than simple recognition on a hall of fame page.