A question…

Hello! This weekend was my first LD and it was a lot of fun, I’ll definitely join next time too! 😀

Anyway I was wondering about something…

How are the entries scored from the judging? Are the results purely based on the average rating? Wouldn’t that result in the possibility of some game that only one person voted 5 stars on being able to win even though it might be worse than say a game that has 4.78 stars and is rated by hundreds of people? Looking at past entries that seems unlikely.. all the winners are of exceptional quality! Is that because there is like a minimum of votes a game needs to taken into consideration for the final score?

There was nothing about this in the rules.. sorry if it’s been asked before, but I couldn’t find anything about it!:o

Thanks! :)

Linus

Comments

rab236
30. Apr 2013 · 15:41 UTC
It is not only average rating. I do not know the exact formula they use (though I do know the forumla for the default score*), but I do know it’s a mix of average score and number of ratings.
Madball
30. Apr 2013 · 16:17 UTC
Many people rate only games those have the fewer votes. By the end of the judging time, minimal amount of votes will be about 10.