And to avoid any hard feelings, I'm just gonna pick the top 10 active forum members with the most posts to participate in the test run.

I'm thinking that will include:

Mark F
pE
LinnTate
Me
EricG
Crazed
PRG
Leland
Carlito's Way (is he still active?)

I'm not sure after that, but I'm guessing:

Joji
KeyLimeTrev

The Furnace Is Fiery
Yay!
Dano

If I'm forgetting anyone, someone let me know.

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here's how I'd distribute 200 points:

27,23,21,20,18,15,14,13,8,7,7,6,6,4,4,2,2,1,1,1

Thanks, eric. I suppose we might as well do it here instead of in private messaging. Nothing to hide, really.

I'm just gonna make an open invitation here to anyone with over 100 posts who wants to do like Eric did and post how you would distribute 200 points over your top 20 albums. I've got a default number system, but I'd like to make it more accurate by basing it on some more people's real point distribution.

I like the test run strategy.

I haven't noticed Carlito's Way or joji around recently.

I would add keylimetrev and johnathanbrisby to the 'very active' list.

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:


I haven't noticed Carlito's Way or joji around recently.

Carlito has been active posting in movies lately. I'll take a look and post a breakdown in the next couple days.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I'm just gonna make an open invitation here to anyone with over 100 posts who wants to do like Eric did and post how you would distribute 200 points over your top 20 albums. I've got a default number system, but I'd like to make it more accurate by basing it on some more people's real point distribution.

I don't qualify, but I think this is a very good idea.

I'm here.
I've been too busy listening to music to post.

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Originally posted by joji:
I've been too busy listening to music to post.

I've been too busy chewing gum to walk.

Let me first say this was a pain in the ass and I prefer last year's method. That said, my breakdown would probably look like this.

25-21-20-17-16-14-13-12-11-10-8-8-6-6-4-3-2-2-1-1

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Originally posted by ericg75:
I've been too busy chewing gum to walk.

See, I can't do that either.

Breakdown:

26-23-20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-6-5-5-4-4-3-2-2

If it's out of 200 points, giving something 1 point is less then 1%, which seems very insignificant to me. I'll give the last ones two points instead.

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Breakdown:

26-23-20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-6-5-5-4-4-3-2-2

If it's out of 200 points, giving something 1 point is less then 1%, which seems very insignificant to me. I'll give the last ones two points instead.

This method seems pretty alright to me. I could go for that.

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Originally posted by less_success:
Breakdown:

26-23-20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-6-5-5-4-4-3-2-2

If it's out of 200 points, giving something 1 point is less then 1%, which seems very insignificant to me. I'll give the last ones two points instead.

This is part of my problem(besides it being a pain to assign points). I didn't want to give any entries the same amount of points because there are none where I can say I like this album exactly as much as I like this album. So if we decide to go this way, I think we need more than 200 points. OR, if we keep 200, we should limit the list to the top 10. Because if not, you're almost forced to double up on point values unless you use decimals, which would be stupid, or you have a huge range between say your top three or five that have a high score, and the rest of the list that would have relatively the same values.

We're not actually doing this method, thought it is the most accurate way to do a composite list. I'm just trying to get an accurate idea of how many points should go to each rank. How many points should each person's #5 ranked album get? I'm using these test runs to determine that.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
We're not actually doing this method, thought it is the most accurate way to do a composite list. I'm just trying to get an accurate idea of how many points should go to each rank. How many points should each person's #5 ranked album get? I'm using these test runs to determine that.

Oh. Please disregard my bitching then.

why does the total point value have to equal 200 anyway?? With a simple 20-1 structure the point total is 210.

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Originally posted by The Furnace Is Fiery:
why does the total point value have to equal 200 anyway?? With a simple 20-1 structure the point total is 210.

I think the idea is most peoples #1 is probably more than one point better than their #2, or even if not, at least more than five points better than their #5. The idea is to distinguish just how much better one album is to another.

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Originally posted by The Furnace Is Fiery:
why does the total point value have to equal 200 anyway?? With a simple 20-1 structure the point total is 210.

It's just an arbitrary number really. It's nice to have everyone be around 200 for this test run that way no one's numbers count more than anyone else's. I suppose it doesn't really matter if it's not exactly 200, just so long as it's in the 190-210 range if that makes things easier.

When this test is done, RL should be able to average the scores at each rank and come up with a fair scoring system. It doesn't need to add up to 200. So far, everyone's distributions seem to be pretty much the same: spread out a bit in the top ten, and little or no seperation in the bottom 10.