Metacritic has a new lowest-scored movie: Death of a Nation (1/100)

[Lucca]

Torillian said:

LuccaCardoso1 said: 

I calculated what score Death of a Nation would have if Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, dividing every ranking in the list by 1,425 (Variety's position) and then dividing the score they gave by the resulting number.

If Metacritic based their reviewer reputation on the Alexa list, Death of a Nation would have more or less a 1.28/100. So yes, it's very possible to get a 1/100 out of those reviews.

Checking through the lowest scored movies ever it seems to truly be a 1/100. I find it surprising that the weighting by Meta can make such a giant difference in the average but that is what occurred. Apologies for my misunderstanding. Interesting use of the Alexa rating to weight things, have you ever looked into whether that works for other metascores? I doubt it's exactly how it's done but I'd be interested to see how close it usually gets.

I miscalculated, Death of a Nation would have a 1.28/100. Still closer to a 1/100 than it is to a 2/100 anyway. I tested this formula with Dog Days, the first movie I found there on Metacritic. It has a Metascore of 39/100, and by my calculations, it should have a 45.1/100. While it's not exact, it's close enough.