The problem is, that many sites decide to put more weight in some genres when it comes to GOTY nominees. It seems obvious that fighting games got the short end of the stick in The Game Awards...reviews tend to rate games more on what they set out to do as opposed to other arbitrary factors like "its a fighting game so it cant be GOTY", which is why tbone is using metascores.
Also, why should a game not get nominated in a category if it was indeed better than another game? Why should Smash get ignored because Bayo is there? I would understand ignoring, say Assassins Creed Rogue if Assassins Creed Unity was there, but it makes no sense to ignore a game just because another game by the same company is in the same category.
Also, with metascore, we pretty much always use whatever version has the most reviews...not sure why there is any argument about that. Typically the version with less reviews has more reviews by "specialty sites" which tend to be more forgiving to the game and fewer general reviews which tend to be more critical. Accepting whatever version has a higher metascore is cherry picking.
EDIT: The consumer decides what is good and what is not. That is what tbone means by "we are the games industry". It should be the decision of the gamers which game wins GOTY, and if the gamers disagree with the decisions of some specialized commitee, then it is certainly worth saying that they don't accurately represent the opinion of gamers...
