Delegated Harvesting - Multiple Accounts vs Single Large Account

Hi, I’m hoping someone with a stronger understanding of the underlying mathematics used to calculate an accounts Importance Score can answer this question.

Would a single large account be more likely to harvest blocks more frequently then taking the balance of that account and dividing it between smaller accounts?

Example: Single large account with over 100,000 Xem vs dividing that 100,000 into 10 accounts of 10,000 Assume that a large additional amount is temporarily added to each account so that the 10k vests quickly. Also that there are extremely infrequent transactions to the large account consisting primarily of deposits.

From https://blog.nem.io/how-do-i-get-importance-on-the-nem-blockchain/ there are several final factors that determine one’s importance score including:
Total Vested Amount of XEM
Math-ified (temporally weighted) Net XEM
NCDawareRank Score
Various Algorithms

What I’m trying to determine is if the weight of the Total Vested Nem & these other factors favor the single larger account or if the cumulative opportunities for harvesting between all the smaller accounts would outweigh the larger account

If anyone can answer this, thank you very much.

Below you can see examples from the blockchain. If you are not doing any activity and want to earn from the fees right now, it is better to divide them. However I think right now the best comparison can be made between poloniex cold wallet and hot wallet. Nem ratio: 178/699 = 25%. Importance ratio: 42%. It has one quarter of XEM amount but 42% importance. Doing lots of transactions definitely helps with importance level.
A simple calculation shows if Poloniex cold wallet divided all its XEM’s into 6.400 accounts which has 100.000 XEM invested in each one it would have 200010^(-5) instead of 66010^(-5). I’m sure that’s not the real number and definitely sure that’s not how it is calculated but if they wanted to they could increase their total importance level with a cost.

http://chain.nem.ninja/#/search/NAHPYR2PHSZ5MGXKQSW3HFDMIXM36JBHDHCPXDQB
Importance: 660.4806 * 10(-5) Vested balance: 660.550.785XEM
http://chain.nem.ninja/#/search/NBZMQO7ZPBYNBDUR7F75MAKA2S3DHDCIFG775N3D
Importance: 280.8574 * 10^(-5) Vested balance: 0.000000 XEM (balance 178M)

Examples:

http://chain.nem.ninja/#/search/NCUWYQBKTO7LX3QQUMSEABMMEBLKMKV4PZHCKNTC
vested balance 13.691 importance 0,2248*10^-5. Not much activity

http://chain.nem.ninja/#/search/NBDDU7TXY6SMSB23LNMTSCX7WY7HLEQKYZ5IQKOP
Vested balance 11.285 importance: 0.2224*10^(-5) not much activity

http://chain.nem.ninja/#/search/ND7GRH4SE6RWK62XQRYWZ2V2YHVVPN23WRFQ6JIZ
vested balance 103.869 importance 0.3150 * 10^(-5) . Not much activity

http://chain.nem.ninja/#/search/NA6MIGQOVR2ZJWM3BLXLLS4EI2EBHGPDRB745PDQ
Vested balance:104.651 importance: 0.5115 * 10(-5) ^Some activity

http://chain.nem.ninja/#/search/NAEQB2G5WCLZP545BYG74XHNBFTHFRYH2BZK337M
Vested balance: 496.871 Importance: 0.7078 * 10^(-5) No activity

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