Ugh. Another thread complaining about ratings.

This thread is about rating the raters who rate the ratings. . .

Here is my observation about MM ratings:

Once everyone on earth has the game this winter, we will then know if the game was #1 because it is the best game, or just because of the "grail" factor.

Anyone placing bets if it stays at #1 ?

I bet it does.

I was thinking about this the other day. 8k is a lot to have tied up in a game. Some people may find out they'd rather have their money back and, due to how cognitive dissidence works, decide the game "just isn't for them" and re-rate it lower.

I think it has a good shot to stay number one though, there are a lot of old relic votes for it that under our current ranking system won't go away. Relic votes, in my mind, are votes from long since gone pinsiders who do not reflect the current pinside population. If you suspended votes from those who have not logged on in a year the rankings would look very different in my view.

The only occasions it doesn't stay #1 is if a new Stern game has enough reviews. I remember seeing Metallica & Star Trek in that spot on the week of their release.

Will they add MMr edition to the rankings or just rate it under the old machine..........

Who cares

It would be interesting if the rankings scores with some metadata (date, number of games ranked by user, etc.) were available to download as a txt file so people could run their own statistics. I'd like to see the distribution of scores for each game more than just the average.

Agreed!
People pay to much attention to this, use them as a guide nothing more, there are pinballs ranked 100-200 on this site that I love, also if you want less bias and politics in ratings check out IPDB.ORG - again a guide- Play the pinball and make your own opinion, if you like it thats ALL that counts.