We're going to be doing monthly posted stats anyway, not the streaming pages. I'll have to tweak the template files for usage stats so that they get outputted in a way that's meaningful to me and without the unwieldy HTML, but that's not a huge issue either way.
That said, I support the idea of moving to an ideal pure objective design for this sort of thing. I don't think the individual cutoff is bad by any means, and quite frankly, if we kept with it I wouldn't be bothered at all. Sure, we had Pokemon like Electivire, Ninjask, and Umbreon in OU for DPP, but I really don't think that made either metagame worse in any way. It might've been cool to see those guys drop, but I don't think it would've improved the metagame in any drastic way. Regardless, if it's feasible to make this cutoff totally objective, we should do it.
Notice how in there I didn't actually support the collective cutoff. I don't think there is a unique solution to the problem, and while this one is very cool and all, there may be better ones we can think up at not-7AM and in later days.
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