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<blockquote data-quote="Richard B" data-source="post: 9710" data-attributes="member: 306"><p>Looking at that rating system, it is really confusing. TZ is on top with 8.4, while positions 2-5 all have the same score, 8.3. What's strange is that normal procedure for ties is to rank the one with the most votes first, but this seems to be reversed, so the fewer votes, the higher the rank, but then you see TAF lose ground to STTNG, the latter of which had more votes. </p><p>It further breaks the rating down into four categories, Audio, Playfield, Art, Fun. The sum total of those don't necessarily add up to a higher position either. Still, while the specific postions shift around, the top 20 seem to be more or less stable.</p><p>Pinside's list uses three decimal places, so there are far fewer ties. It does suffer from the new Stern syndrome, but that gets corrected in time. </p><p>I'm sure these rankings also suffer from fanboys rating their favorite machines high, and competing machines ridiculously low, or those who give high ratings to low ranked machines, and the reciprocal, just to screw with the ratings. We have some of that here, with our polls.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard B, post: 9710, member: 306"] Looking at that rating system, it is really confusing. TZ is on top with 8.4, while positions 2-5 all have the same score, 8.3. What's strange is that normal procedure for ties is to rank the one with the most votes first, but this seems to be reversed, so the fewer votes, the higher the rank, but then you see TAF lose ground to STTNG, the latter of which had more votes. It further breaks the rating down into four categories, Audio, Playfield, Art, Fun. The sum total of those don't necessarily add up to a higher position either. Still, while the specific postions shift around, the top 20 seem to be more or less stable. Pinside's list uses three decimal places, so there are far fewer ties. It does suffer from the new Stern syndrome, but that gets corrected in time. I'm sure these rankings also suffer from fanboys rating their favorite machines high, and competing machines ridiculously low, or those who give high ratings to low ranked machines, and the reciprocal, just to screw with the ratings. We have some of that here, with our polls. [/QUOTE]
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