Here are some post division release stats:
912 division notifications were sent to people from 349 different teams. Teams 195, 148, and 469 had the most people notified with 15, 14, and 13 respectively. The last person to sign up (from team 74) did so 3 minutes before they received their division.
Timeline (Central time):
~12:31 First divisions released
12:33 First notifications sent
12:53 Last notifications sent
Because everyone loves graphs:
The biggest limiting factor was the rate at which divisions were added to the usfirst.org website.
There was also a small bug that delayed the last 9% of notifications by about 7 minutes. Luckily I was at my computer and was able to fix it quickly.
So, to improve for the future:
- Let people choose if they want to be notified when their team gets a division, or when any team gets a division
- Add email notifications as an option
- Increase division data acquisition speed
What else could be better?