2026-05-04
Who Always Submits First? The Eagerness Stat Explained
Every Music League group has one. The person who submits their song within minutes of a round opening, like they had it ready the second the theme was announced. And there's the one who appears in the submission list at 11:58pm, two minutes before the deadline, every single time.
The Eagerness stat measures how early each player tends to engage with a round, compared to everyone else.
What it measures
Eagerness has two parts: Submission Eagerness (how early you submit each round) and Voting Promptness (how early you cast your first vote). Both are scored 0–100. 100 means you're always first; 0 means you're always last. Your overall Eagerness score is the average.
How it's calculated
For each round, players are ranked by when they submitted, or when they voted. If eight people submit and you were first, you score 100. Last gets 0. Everyone else lands somewhere in between. Your score is the average of those round percentages across the whole league.
Rounds with only one participant don't count. There has to be someone to compare against.
Submission eagerness vs. voting promptness
The two sub-scores often diverge, and the split is usually more interesting than the combined number.
Some players submit early — they know what song they're picking the moment the theme drops — but sit on their vote for days, actually listening to everything before committing. Others barely think about their submission but tear through the voting the minute it opens. The Eagerness page shows all three scores side by side, so you can see what's actually driving someone's number.
A high submission score and a low vote score is a specific type of person. In most groups, everyone can guess who it is.
What it actually reveals
A high Eagerness score means you're consistently first in — first to commit your pick, first to weigh in on everyone else's. Whether that's genuine excitement about the round or just how you're wired, your group will have opinions.
A low score isn't automatically a problem. Some of the most considered voters are at the bottom; they take their time because they take the voting seriously. But the outliers at either end are where it gets interesting. The person who's always first to vote either has very quick taste judgments, or hasn't really listened to half the submissions. The chronic late submitters are either busy, or they have a theory about not showing their hand too early.
The leaderboard won't tell you any of this. Neither will the heatmap. Eagerness is the one chart that's about when people play, not what they do when they get there.
Eagerness is a premium feature. Upload your Music League export to see where everyone in your group lands.