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May update, alternate formula for Critic Rankings

I either should get this out way before or way after Megacritic. Out of impatience I chose before. So, here.

For those who haven't seen previous posts, this is a formula that eliminates skew by not considering averages. A win means, when an album is compared against another with at least ten reviews in common, more critics rated it higher than it's opponent. Rankings are done by a formula that gives an advantage to those with more reviews, but still boosts up albums with fewer reviews but with wins over high ranked albums.

1. Portishead - Third (64-1-1)
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (58-1-0)
3. Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus, Dig!!! (61-3-0)
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (53-7-6)
5. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (47-9-3)
6. Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (45-8-3)
7. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (48-11-6)
8. Hercules And Love Affair - s/t (31-2-1)
9. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah (31-5-1)
10. Sun Kil Moon - April (36-9-4)
11. No Age - Nouns (36-14-6)
12. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (30-9-3)
13. Why? - Alopecia (26-10-5)
14. Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams (34-16-8)
15. Black Mountain - In The Future (36-18-9)
16. Flight Of The Conchords - s/t (31-14-4)
17. American Music Club - The Golden Age (28-11-9)
18. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (33-19-9)
19. Santogold - s/t (18-9-4)
20. The Roots - Rising Down (22-13-6)

Albums not in the top 20, but whose raw percentage suggests more reviews would bring them up into the top 20:

26. Robyn - Robyn (13-1-0) (74%)
29. Dodos - Visiter (11-3-2) (58%)
39. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Flight (9-8-2) (52%)

For reference, Portishead's raw percentage is 72%, #10 Sun Kil Moon's is 57%, and #20 The Roots's is 50%.

Re: May update, alternate formula for Critic Rankings

Hi BillAdama ... Congratulations ... You are this month´s winner of the Mega-Critic-Competition ... Please, let me know your adress, so I can send you the Bon Iver-CD