Chris is me, you're welcome to take the simulation as a joke, I'm just trying to provide some objective information instead of my useless own opinion. I'd love to participate in the whole "compare official rankings to my own rankings" thing but when I look at my own rankings I tend to think that they're a mess, so.
Hey, I made some rankings based on Markus' statistics! I looked at the winner's gain percentage (or buy percentage, in the case of projects/Events). The top 5 are Star Chart, Black Market, Forager, Dungeon, and Masquerade. The bottom 5 are Masterpiece, Fortune Teller, Banquet, Changeling, and Trade Route.
Here are the biggest disagreements:
Secret Cave - Qvist 55, Markus 19, 81% gain
Cathedral - Qvist 4, Markus 34, 64% buy
City Gate - Qvist 45, Markus 16, 83% buy
Smugglers - Qvist 36, Markus 59, 44% gain
Pageant - Qvist 33, Markus 12, 85% buy
Market Square - Qvist 30, Markus 9, 86% gain
Changeling - Qvist 41, Markus 61, 35% gain
In general, it seems like do-nothing cantrips (and harmless projects like Pageant and City Gate) have high gain percentages, but do poorly in the rankings. Makes sense, and it does not mean that they deserve to be ranked higher. Changeling also makes sense, because I think exchanging for a changeling doesn't count as gaining. The main thing I'm getting out of this is that people way underbuy Cathedral.