Wow... So, for all the blocks that are over 500%, no one gets paid for the work their miners did over the 500% mark?
That's disappointing if you're right.
Sorry - that's the way it works on every PPLNS pool.
If you don't find a block during the LNS period, you don't get paid for those shares.
I had to go refresh my memory as well... it's at the top of the home page.
We use PPLNS (Pay Per Last N Shares)
PPLNS means that when a block is found, the block reward is shared among the last N shares that miners sent to the pool, up to when the block was found.
The N value the pool uses is 5 times the network difficulty when the block is found - '5Nd'.
Using fuzzy math would this mean that while the block was almost 600% difficulty, we were only paid as if it were 500% (number of shares) and that other 100% was not paid shares? [maybe a gross and missleading point, not sure]