How are the games ranked?
Games are ranked by ‘Score’. Basically, this has the effect of raising the rankings for those games with more ratings. Some method like this is vital to avoid a single ’10’ rating from pushing a game to the top of the list. The ‘Score’ is calculated by giving ALL games on the list Five ratings of value 3.25 in addition to all the real ratings. These numbers are NOT counted in the Ave. or #Vot columns. For example, take a game with four ratings of 10 8 4 2. It has a simple average of 10+8+4+2=24/4=6. However, it’s score is (10+8+4+2+(5*3.25))/9=4.47. Games with MANY ratings will be almost negligibly affected by these five low ratings. Note that the numbers 5 and 3.25 are somewhat arbitrarily selected but I am happy with them and expect they will NOT change.
