For those of you who did previous lists, how did you calculate the overall list? Just assign points based on ranks and add them all up? How were ties resolved?
That's all I did with 80s' and my lists. Low scores highest, and tie breaker went to the movie that received the highest score. So if you did it that way, it looks like 10 would be the best score possible for a movie, and for that to happen all of us would have to have the same movie at #1.
This seems to give too much credit for movies that are not on everyone's list. For example I have 2 lists so far and one of the list's 75th ranked movie is worth 75 points because it is only on one of the lists, which ends up being a higher ranking than say a movie that is on both lists ranked in the 50s or so. Do I need to add some sort of "penalty amount" for however many lists the movie is not on?
Oh yeah, I forgot about that detail.
What I did is add 101 to any movie not on the other list. So there were some in my top 10 that weren't on his list, so they had 111pts. Those usually ended up being in the 30s-40s.
Will we have to do that if there are 10 of us, though?
I think we will. Say everyone has caddyshack listed on their list as top 10. That means the final score for it would be anywhere from 10-100. So lets say it gets a score of 85. Now one person picked Ernest Goes to Jail and listed it as their 75th ranked move, so it gets 75 points. It's now ranked ahead of Caddyshack that was in everyone's top 10.
I think I need to add 76 points for each list a movie is not on. I'm going to play around with this once I get a few more lists.
Ah, very good point, and I wasn't thinking clearly. As you pointed out, it's probably worse in this format since the highest rated movies would probably also hover in that 75-100pt range.
On the flip side, would giving them all 76pts for non-votes make it so that nobody's hidden gems show up now?
For example, if I have some odd Japanese horror in my top 5,
would that 689 point score (9x76pts + 5pts) be enough to make the countdown? Nothing's perfect, just thinking out loud.