Best reviewed albums of year so far, alternate formula
This is a list based on a non-average based formula. I programmed it to correct for albums whose average is dragged way down from just one or two extreme negative reviews. It's based on comparing each album to each album it's had at least ten reviews in common with and creating a win-loss record. The formula is a balance between the proportion of wins to losses and number of reviews.
The numbers are first the win-loss-tie record, then the raw percentage of superior reviews it got and the number of reviews.
1. Portishead - Third (80-1-0, 72%, 30)
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (72-1-1, 72%, 23)
3. Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus, Dig (76-2-2, 70%, 28)
4. Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair (62-4-0, 68%, 23)
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (58-4-5, 68%, 21)
6. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (66-9-6, 60%, 30)
7. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (54-11-5, 58%, 24)
8. Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (53-13-3, 58%, 23)
9. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One(4th World War) (43-5-2, 63%, 20)
10. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (53-19-8, 55%, 28)
11. Spiritualized - Songs In A&E (49-15-9, 55%, 24)
12. Sun Kil Moon - April (43-13-7, 57%, 18)
13. Shearwater - Rook (35-8-0, 65%, 16)
14. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (42-11-2, 56%, 19)
15. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (31-6-4, 57%, 17)
16. No Age - Nouns (43-23-7, 54%, 24)
17. Santogold - Santogold (37-14-11, 53%, 21)
18. Flight Of The Conchords - Flight of The Conchords (39-21-5, 53%, 20)
19. Why? - Alopecia (34-16-5, 55%, 18)
20. Black Mountain - In The Future (44-28-8, 52%, 30)
And, albums that, judging by their raw percentage, could jump into the top 20 if they got more reviews:
25. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (23-14-5, 53%, 15)
27. Dodos - Visiter (21-4-6, 57%, 13)
30. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (15-5-6, 59%, 13)
35. Al Green - Lay It Down (18-9-2, 53%, 13)
45. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go (14-3-1, 61%, 14)
Re: Best reviewed albums of year so far, alternate formula
Interesting list! I'd say at least half of these top 20 albums will have a great shot at making the AM top 3000. I wonder how well Duffy fares. Any info?
