Okay, quick question.  And I bet this is posted somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.

The first is your overall retro rating, the sum of all of your retro rating points for all of your submitted articles. The second in parenthesis is the average individual retro rating for all of your submitted articles.

Ah ha, thanks, NLogan!  :-)  That was something I've been meaning to ask for ages.  

I'd wondered the same thing. Now I know, thank you.

And as you can see, NLogan has figured out that if you save up all your inspiration and effort for one epic article per year, you achieve the highest average of anyone. But what's the fun in that?