VGChartz Playstation Trophy League

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KylieDog said:

Our problem is too many 1 star games get a 2 star rating because 1,2 and 3 aren't used much when they should be, it have nothing to do with 3 star games.

 

You're suggestion because 3 should be average the extra 2 star ratings are because its skewed down?  But it is 1 star games skewed up a rating.

I think you're the type that's in favor of a pyramid-ish distribution, so there'd be the most 1 star games, then less 2 star games, then less 3 star games, etc. In which case moving the easier 2 star games to 1 star does indeed make sense, and it's something I'd be in favor of over the current distribution.

In such a case, out of our 226 games (for convenience I'll use 225), we can have something like

1 star: 75
2 star: 60
3 star: 45
4 star: 30
5 star: 15

5's less of a whoamg now, but we don't have 40% of all the games with the same rating.

This is our current distribution:

1 star: 51
2 star: 92
3 star: 49
4 star: 24
5 star: 7

In a regular (unskewed) normal distribution, the midpoint has the most samples, which is 3 star here. 2 and 4 stars should have the same number. 1 and 5 stars should have the same number. Given how 5 stars seems to be regarded as a holy grail here, this probably isn't reasonable. If we can ditch that mentality, however, I think a bell curve makes the most sense. Instead of having 7 5-star games, if we had maybe 20, a bell curve would work, something like:

1 star: 25
2 star: 50
3 star: 75
4 star: 50
5 star: 25