Managing Your Team
How is the Leaderboard ranked?
The three things that decide rank, which days count, why a couple of great days can't jump the queue, and who sees it.
DoTally’s Leaderboard is ordered by each person’s Rank score, which rates the quality of their work, never their hours. For a week, a month or all time, rank is 70% quality, 20% consistency and 10% reliability. It’s adjusted so that someone with only a couple of great days can’t jump to the top.
The three parts of a rank
Quality (70%): how good the days were. It’s a blend of the person’s average Overall, Productivity and Focus scores, plus how much of their classified time was Productive. Overall carries the most weight.
Consistency (20%): how steady the days were. Someone who scores 7 every day ranks above someone who swings between 4 and 10, even if their averages match.
Reliability (10%): how many of their own workdays count. It’s measured against each person’s own schedule, so a part-timer isn’t penalised for working fewer days. A day off they marked in DoTally isn’t counted against them, and a swapped day moves with the swap. On a Flexible Week schedule, Reliability uses the weekly target, so a day off still counts.
On the Day view, rank is based on quality alone.
Which days count
A day counts towards someone’s rank when:
it’s one of their workdays: a scheduled workday, or a rest day they swapped in for one (never a day off or a rest day they didn’t swap),
they logged at least half of that day’s goal, and
the day has all three scores.
People with no counted days in the period aren’t listed.
Why a couple of great days can’t jump the queue
Until someone has enough counted days in the period, their rank is pulled towards the team’s typical score. The pull fades as they log more days: after about 3 days for a week, 8 for a month and 15 for all time, their own numbers take over. So a new starter with two excellent days sits in the middle, not at the top.
Reading the board
Choose a period: All Time, Day, Week or Month.
Each row shows the person’s average Focus Score, Productivity Score and Overall Score for the period.
The green or red +/− next to each score compares it with the team average for the same period.
People with the same result share a rank.
The scores shown are plain averages. The order comes from each person’s Rank score, the adjusted result described above, so someone can rank higher than a person with a slightly better average if their days were steadier or more reliable.
Who sees it
Everyone in the workspace sees the same Leaderboard, Members included. Members can open only their own profile from it. The Administrator and Managers rank too, because they log their time like everyone else. When someone’s account is deleted, they leave the Leaderboard and the Timeboard at once.
Leaderboard and Timeboard
The Leaderboard asks who did the best work. The Timeboard asks who put in enough time, measured against each person’s own goal. Read them together: a strong week can’t hide a short one, and a long week can’t pass for a good one.
Available on: Team Professional, including the 14-day trial. Team StartUp has the Timeboard but not the Leaderboard.
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