@Robscheid: That's a really good question. If you look at that list, you'll see that there are piles & piles of shows with exactly the same displayed rating. So do I have any basis for accurately breaking into groups of five? Not really. IMDb may have a legitimate way of tie-breaking. Or they not.
But to me, a show with 27,000 votes getting an average rating of 8.8 is probably a more reasonable selection than 1,050 fanboys who have given 10.0 scores to a YouTube series 90% of people will never have heard of.
To my mind, the larger the sample, the better the results. But as with any critical list, the method of correlation significantly impacts the vote.
Yes, my method put Prison Break in the top ten, but yours puts the UK documentary series Planet Earth on top, and has Freaks & Geeks, & Top Gear in the top ten.
And by limiting the list to 5,000 votes instead of 1,000 you've reduced the list to a mere(!) 191 entries, including Joey, Baywatch and The Hill. |
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