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| From | "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: Audities: Best of 2008. The rules. |
| Date | Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:09:13 -0500 |
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>>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.
Not that I want to change the system - every system has its flaws - but the
above works until the last line. Giving 215 points is fine, but only if you
fill out 20 albums. Having your #8 get 25 points in that example when my #8
only gets 10 or so because I listed more albums skews the whole thing.
Giving the same points across an uneven number of records will *not* work,
IMO.
As bizarre as it is to have an album that gets four #1 voues and *nothing*
else outpoll an album that is #20 on 50 people lists is absurd...but then
again it apparently blew 4 people away where the other album, consistently
noted as it was, was also consistently far down the list.
Of course, as baseball fans know, there's always the (*)...
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