First things first, let's make sure we're all on the same page. The current Teams League is based on the following algorithm: SUM[GTPP + HTPP + (UP)/10], with
GTPP = Global Team Power Points = "best score per team per global ranking"; eg. 3DMark03 1xGPU
HTPP = Hardware Team Power Points = "best score per team per hardware ranking"; eg. 3DMark03 1xGPU GeForce GTX 480
UP = Sum of all team member user points, without limit on GL, HW, or WR
The suggestion of Der8auer affects the GTPP only. His suggestion is to rank the teams in the global rankings differently. Instead of taking into account just the best score of the team, he suggests to take into account the best 10 scores of the team. The caveat: one hardware can only be used once (so no spamming of 6700K) and one user can account for multiple results (so no hardware sharing).
Der8auer asked me to make a couple of examples to show the effect. This calculation is very different from the existing one, so I'm running the numbers manually at the moment.
3DMark11 Performance 1xGPU: Current
[table=head;autonum=1]score|team|gpu
35852|Australia OC|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
35011|TecLab OC Team|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
34718|Team MLG|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
34616|Hardwareluxx.de|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
34330|PURE|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
32367|Extreme Box OC TEAM|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
31939|Elite Overclockers of Korea (republic)|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
31578|Team KATANA|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
30464|Asus ROG|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
30280|Madshrimps Belgium OC Team|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
30278|Klan-OC|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
29517|OcTeamDenmark|GeForce GTX Titan X
29257|lab501.ro|GeForce GTX Titan X
29020|OverCleX|GeForce GTX 980 Ti
28809|Team South Africa|GeForce GTX 980
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3DMark11 Performance 1xGPU: Der8auer method (10 best)
[table=head;autonum=1]score|team
24757,9|Team MLG
23964,3|TecLab OC Team
23267|Australia OC
22825|PURE
22548,1|Hardwareluxx.de
22413,6|Extreme Box OC TEAM
21519,9|Klan-OC
21164,3|Overclockers.com
21033,2|Overclock.net
20314,5|HW Legend OC
19889,3|XtremeSystems
19849,2|Team Russia
19571,4|Asus ROG
19500|HwBox Hellas O/C Team
19316,8|ForumOverclocking.ro
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3DMark Performance 1xGPU: Der8auer method (20 best)
[table=head;autonum=1]score|team
18952,2|Team MLG
17726,05|Australia OC
17662,7|TecLab OC Team
16867,4|Hardwareluxx.de
16412,25|HW Legend OC
16412,1|Overclockers.com
16378,85|Overclock.net
16373,25|PURE
16300,7|Klan-OC
15885,4|Team Russia
15771,8|HwBox Hellas O/C Team
15529,5|PC Games Hardware
15167,4|XtremeOverdrive OC team Italy
15097,35|XtremeSystems
15056,4|lab501.ro
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Comparison hardware used: 5th place
Current - Pure: GeForce GTX 980 Ti (Xtreme Addict)
Der8auer (10) - Hardwareluxx.de: GeForce GTX 980 Ti (Dancop), GeForce GTX Titan X (Dancop), GeForce GTX 980 (Dancop), Radeon R9 290X (Dancop), GeForce GTX 780 Ti (Dancop), GeForce GTX Titan (Dancop), GeForce GTX 780 (Dancop), Radeon HD 7970 (BenchBros), GeForce GTX Titan Black Edition (paralyzer2005), GeForce GTX 680 (Freakezoit).
Der8auer (20) - HW Legend OC: GeForce GTX 980 (rsannino), GeForce GTX 980 Ti (delly), GeForce GTX 780 Ti (rsannino), Radeon R9 290X (NATA 58), GeForce GTX 780 (rsannino), GeForce GTX 970 (delly), Radeon HD 7970 (rsannino), GeForce GTX Titan Black Edition (NATA 58), GeForce GTX Titan (delly), Radeon R9 280X (NATA 58), Radeon R9 280 (delly), Radeon HD 7950 (delly), GeForce GTX 960 (delly), Radeon R9 285 (delly), GeForce GTX 680 (delly), GeForce GTX 580 (rsannino), GeForce GTX 770 (NATA 58), Radeon R9 270X (NATA 58), GeForce GTX 670 (Slime), GeForce GTX 950 (isonzo)
First impression
By limiting to different hardware, the GTPP will be skewed towards the high-end of the latest generation. Especially in product series where there are multiple revisions of the top performance hardware, this will be an issue. For example: GTX 980, 980 Ti, Titan X. These are three different models, but all from the same product category.
This effect should apply to all benchmarks.
What could be another interesting approach is to go by unique core architectures (Skylake, Haswell, Ivy Bridge) or product families (GeForce 900, GeForce 700, GeForce 600).