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How are games given ranking?

A topic by MFaseeh created 76 days ago Views: 133 Replies: 4
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Submitted

Can someone tell me that what is the process behind ranking games by itch.io according to the ratings.

Does more ratings mean higher rankings?

Submitted(+1)

For the most part yeah. But it also depends what kind of ratings they get (at least that's how it should work lol)

Submitted (1 edit) (-1)

Yeah, there's a "raw score" which is the average score actually given by the other jammers, and the "score" of the ranking.

In an earlier jam, this game got a much lower final score because it had very few ratings:


Submitted (2 edits) (+2)

To add some info about the score vs raw score. You need to have as many ratings as the game with the median number of ratings. As long as you have the median number of ratings, the number of ratings doesn't matter.

For those games that didn't receive the median number of ratings, this post explains it https://itch.io/t/644401/calculated-ratings-for-jams-vs-raw-scores

The formula for jam ratings is adjustment = sqrt(min(median, votes_received) / median)
The adjustment for game that got 19 votes in a jam with median of 20 is = 0.97467, about a 2.5% reduction in average score, eg. a 4.5 rating would go to 4.386 for the purpose of comparison during ranking.

For example, if you look at https://itch.io/jam/godot-wild-jam-71/results.  At the top, it says the median number is 12 and (scroll down) Hotdogday only received 9 reviews, so it lost part of its score. Unfortunate, since it was a great game that would have won the Jam.

Submitted

Thanks for the explanation