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JRPGfan said:
Symbios63 said:
So, after 13 updates, here a few thoughts :

- Amazon, Best Buy and Gamestop lists are updated regularly and items are ranked based on sales over a short period of time (hourly or daily). Walmart and Target are different with items moving way slower suggesting the ranking is based on sales over a longer period of time (which would not be really useful for what we are trying to do here...)
I will keep them for now but what do you guys think ?

- I will wait for March NPD results to confirm but I think I will have to change the point system to award more points to the items in top 20, top 10. As it is right now, I think the point system is giving too much point to console with loads of SKUs, even if each SKUs rank low. How I see it : #100 = 1 point ; #99 = 2 points ; ... ; #21 = 80 points ; #20 = 82 points ; #19 = 84 points ; ... ; #11 = 100 points ; #10 = 105 points ; #9 = 110 points ; ... ; #1 = 150 points.
Again, what do you think ?

- Off course, "weighting" retailers will be a thing as well. We'll decide how and how much after March NPD.

Other ideas ?

Yeah thats the other thing, Amazon is like 5% of the market, while Best Buy and Gamestop are much bigger %'s.

Another idea could be to take the avg of all the differnt scores.
Since its overtime differnt.

Mad props for all the work this takes though.
I far believe this is the best way to predict a NPD we have ever had, and Im pretty sure this will be more often right than just amazon thread.

Are the charts for best buy and Gamestop just for online sales because we have to consider that.