God no, I love waffle. I said earlier in this thread I was in the process of building a switching pool that does the same thing.
I'm just saying that 500 MH pool is going to have a lot of variance, you were the one who said you couldn't accept that. It's unavoidable (other than growing the pool or offering something like PPS which is a whole other issue).
Also, I actually think there is more variance than is visible on that table because there are some very big payoffs on some of these coins that it is hard for a small pool to hit (but it will eventually/occasionally hit them, or it will hit them more if it gets bigger).
Maybe there was a misunderstanding then. Read my posts again. I'm differentiating between levels of variance, Middlecoin being the lowest, and most other switching pools being much higher. I stated that waffle came the closest to the variance I was happy with, and gave my numbers showing that the variance here is not all that different than Middle. That was proven out by the basic numbers posted, even when the pool was under 300MH, let alone 500MH. In fact the variance may be a little too low. We have not seen the highs yet that Middle has hit (doge and the periodic build up of unexchanged), but I also haven't seen it's lows.
I think you misunderstood my variance acceptance limit. I'm OK with 0.013BTC/MH. I am not OK with 0.003BTC/MH. That is a HUGE difference.
And those pool statistics are exactly the way I've been attempting to quantify my variance acceptance. Based on a 24 hour cycle. Yes they fluctuate with a 24 hour period, but I usually use my daily payouts averaged over time. This being only my third day however, and I am forced to rely on waffle's overall pool payouts/hashrate (which BTW, no other pool seems to publish, so kudos!). When I can see a larger number of my own payouts I'll have a better sample size for a more direct comparison, but so far my two payouts are aligned pretty closely with the pool payouts.