Well it looks like a snapshot where 240 is 250, 239 is like 100 and so on. I mean if we consider merit points as a valuable entity why using such rounded start? Absolutely agree that there are more than enough pointless messages on the forum but can this system be implemented more accurately?
I'm agreed that it was a rough way of doing it but I think unless there was a database snapshot taken just before it was implemented it's probably too late to change it now.