You wrote:
Ideally the best is to be in the first 5 upvotes after the 30 minutes for maximum rewards.
Either I don't understand you or this is incorrect. In case there are already quite a few upvotes within the 30 minutes, you will basically get no curation reward.
The same goes if a whale upvoted before you. And neither will you get any curation reward of no one upvotes after you.
Then you created sort of a table that states of Steemonians with equal SP upvote the first one gets $1 and the second upvoter gets $0.90. This also seems incorrect as the second upvoter gets less then half of the reward from the first upvoter.
Curation rewards are always confusing and this is why I do not pay attention at the time I make an upvote or comment. If the post is good I just do it at any time, even days after the post is created.
This still doesn't answer my questions. Unless you have a political answer....?
As I said in the post, this is how I understand it. This might be correct or incorrect, but close to it. For those interested If you want to read an actual really good posts with graphs and everything, I linked that in the article.
Okay fair enough.
The article that you referenced to is indeed very good. Most of it I figured out myself and that made me win Ashers league several times. But until I read that post I was missing the technical and mathematical proof.
Do you know Ashers leagues?
https://steemit.com/engagement/@abh12345/4pswn7-the-curation-and-engagement-leagues-sponsored-by-carlgnash-and-paulag
No, I don't know them. Thank you for sharing the link.