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| From | Swim Taxi <thegeniusiwas@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Audities: Best of 2008. The rules. |
| Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:59:51 -0800 |
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I actually prefer Matt's point system. Seems fairer. I mean, is your #1 25 times as good as your #20? Maybe. Is your #11 ten times as good as your #20?
I think the point system Mike used is fine for things like college football where everyone is voting for most of the same teams. There's too much variation in the audities poll, though. The result in years' past was an album ranked #1 on a few lists and cracking the overall top 20 despite not being on most people's list. Meanwhile an album could be consistently on lots of lists and not crack the top 20.
This is not a knock on Mike. I'm very grateful for all the time he put in over the years.
What I imagined as the fairest point system would be to give each pollster a certain number of points to divvy up as (s)he wishes (say 215 to be consistent with previous years). You could choose to assign as was done in previous years, or you could do something different. You'd want a max points you could assign an album (say 25) and only whole numbers assigned, so it couldn't get too ridiculous. So you could just have 8 albums on your list all with 25 points or 20 albums all 10 points.
I realize this would be more complicated for whoever was keeping track.
If you can't tell, I'm a big stat geek. Mike, If you have previous years' spreadsheets I'd love to study them and discover how the final rankings might have changed under different scoring systems (Matt's proposal, for example).
I also dream of a web site with all the year's releases that auditeers could assign a score to. Power ratings and the number of people who voted on each album would be automatically updated. You could vote on as many albums as you wanted.
Damian
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:23:14 +0000From: "Matt Whitby" <matt.whitby@gmail.com>To: audities@smoe.orgSubject: Audities: Best of 2008. The rules.Message-ID: <1dfd2de0812082323q51eeedd1m23f03f49ad92868f@mail.gmail.com> Rules:1. Must have been released in 2008.2. No re-releases.3. No compilations.4. No entries will be accepted after 5th Jan 2009. Metholodology: 5 points each for the top 5.3 points each for positions 6-10.1 point each for anything in position 11 or greater. Is everyone happy with those rules? If so then i'll keep a spreadsheet with the figures in and the results bewill released on Friday 16th January 2009. Regards, Matt. Damian thegeniusiwas@hotmail.com
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