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Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:35 am
by KernowWarrior
My overall rating does not agree with individual ratings



My ratings are as follows: Fair play: 4.7, Game play: 4.7 and Attitude: 4.7. Yet my overall rating is 4.6!, now, i'm no Carol Vordaman but even I know that the average of 4.7x3 is 4.7

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:38 am
by lancehoch
The overall rating is calculated by taking the average of the three ratings left by one user, and then taking that average and the average of the ratings left by every other player and averaging those. This is why the numbers do not look like they work out all the time.

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:20 pm
by n00blet
Wait....So if I had a bunch of people with a 1 star rating rate me 5 stars, it would lower my rating?

:? confused :?

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:46 pm
by Night Strike
My guess is decimals. All your individual ratings are probably below 4.7, so although they round to 4.7, the average may end up rounding down to 4.6 (like 4.64 or something).

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:49 pm
by Timminz
Night Strike wrote:My guess is decimals. All your individual ratings are probably below 4.7, so although they round to 4.7, the average may end up rounding down to 4.6 (like 4.64 or something).

Damn decimal system. Our ratings should be imperial.

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:47 pm
by lancehoch
n00blet wrote:Wait....So if I had a bunch of people with a 1 star rating rate me 5 stars, it would lower my rating?

:? confused :?

No. I meant that if six people left you ratings, the server averages the ratings left by each individual person and then averages the six averages.

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:33 pm
by sailorseal
Rating system is pointless and is serving no purpose. I had someone leave me a zero because they were going quickly and just missed the 5

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:34 pm
by Optimus Prime
sailorseal wrote:Rating system is pointless and is serving no purpose. I had someone leave me a zero because they were going quickly and just missed the 5

You can't be left a "0" there is no such thing. ;) If you don't have between 1-5 then they simply did not give you a rating at all, it doesn't count as a zero.

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:44 pm
by sailorseal
Optimus Prime wrote:
sailorseal wrote:Rating system is pointless and is serving no purpose. I had someone leave me a zero because they were going quickly and just missed the 5

You can't be left a "0" there is no such thing. ;) If you don't have between 1-5 then they simply did not give you a rating at all, it doesn't count as a zero.

I meant 1 because if you don't check one box, but the others the rating saves...

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:02 pm
by blakebowling
sailorseal wrote:
Optimus Prime wrote:
sailorseal wrote:Rating system is pointless and is serving no purpose. I had someone leave me a zero because they were going quickly and just missed the 5

You can't be left a "0" there is no such thing. ;) If you don't have between 1-5 then they simply did not give you a rating at all, it doesn't count as a zero.

I meant 1 because if you don't check one box, but the others the rating saves...

No, if you don't select a star, it doesn't select a rating.

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:01 pm
by sailorseal
But it shows up as no stars when you look at your ratings

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:02 pm
by blakebowling
sailorseal wrote:But it shows up as no stars when you look at your ratings

Right, no stars are selected, but it's not calculated as a 0.0

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:33 am
by spiesr
Rught, so even if you have no stars it doesn't count agianst you.

Re: Whats up with the ratings?

PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:32 am
by Woodruff
sailorseal wrote:But it shows up as no stars when you look at your ratings


Correct...a "no stars" is effectively a "not applicable" and is not counted at all.