The MyFICO Score Power showed an average age that would reflect that
all closed accounts are still aging on all 3 CRA's. Since there was a very drastic difference for average age when I calculated the difference between closed accounts that stopped aging compared to if they were still aging, this definitely with out question would clearly indicate that my closed accounts are still aging. This might only happen for me, I don't know.
The drastic difference for average age of my accounts if they were not aging would be years lower than Score Power calculated. So that was pretty drastic. However the number Score Power calculated matched my calculations when I calculated all accounts aging. This is how I determined that my closed accounts are in fact still aging.
How I calculated my averages.I first added up all my account open dates, then calculated the number of months from the start date to the date on my Score Power report.
Example: Total of 3 ACTIVE accounts open is
30 months.And total closed accounts is
70 months.Added together if all still aging would be 100 months.
39 divided by 12 =
8.33 average age.Then second I added up all my open dates from ACTIVE accounts only to the date on my Score Power report, then calculated the number of months my closed accounts were open until closed. Then I added the number of months the closed accounts were open with the number of months from ACTIVE accounts.
Example: Total of 3 ACTIVE accounts open is
30 months.And total closed accounts if not aging is
9 months.Added together if all still aging would be 39 months.
39 divided by 12 =
3.25 average age.You can see how the number of months for aging accounts would be drastically different than if they stopped aging as seen by the example above.
From here I have very different number of months. I dived each number by total accounts and divided by 12 months for years. I ended up with 2 very different average ages!!!! Only 1 matched MyFICO Score Power report. You can decide if I did this correctly.
The BIG QUESTION that I have now would be, is the MyFICO Score Power report accurately calculating my average age? If it is accurate my closed accounts are definitely still aging.
That would be great news.
Message Edited by ilovepizza on
09-20-2007 01:39 PM