Great idea but I see a couple of problems.
Because not every reviewer will be assigning the same values, or value ranges, from best to last, your cumulative highest scoring watch may not be the best. For example, it’s possible the watch ranked first most often will not have the highest cumulative score.
To address this, may I suggest, after you close the voting, you convert your totals for each view to rankings, first to fifth. One warning when you do this, keep in mind that when two watches tie, they both receive the same place (ie 1st and 1st) and the next watch will be two places down (ie 3rd).
Further mucking up your result is that all reviewers probably do not agree on which views are most and least important. For example, I personally would put a higher value on “front view” than “lug engraving” but, if you merely total the scores, you’re giving all views equal rating.
One way to address this would be to query the forum to grade the importance of each view (for example: critical, very important, important, less important, don’t care). Then multiply the weight for each view (using the above example: 1.0, 0.8, 0.6, 0.4, 0.2) times the adjusted scores for each view (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Finally, after adjusting and weighting the scores for each view, add up the totals for each watch and rank them.
Regardless of how it’s done, I’d love to see this become an annual “Voted Best of Class Award” for Subs and other watches as well.
Because not every reviewer will be assigning the same values, or value ranges, from best to last, your cumulative highest scoring watch may not be the best. For example, it’s possible the watch ranked first most often will not have the highest cumulative score.
To address this, may I suggest, after you close the voting, you convert your totals for each view to rankings, first to fifth. One warning when you do this, keep in mind that when two watches tie, they both receive the same place (ie 1st and 1st) and the next watch will be two places down (ie 3rd).
Further mucking up your result is that all reviewers probably do not agree on which views are most and least important. For example, I personally would put a higher value on “front view” than “lug engraving” but, if you merely total the scores, you’re giving all views equal rating.
One way to address this would be to query the forum to grade the importance of each view (for example: critical, very important, important, less important, don’t care). Then multiply the weight for each view (using the above example: 1.0, 0.8, 0.6, 0.4, 0.2) times the adjusted scores for each view (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Finally, after adjusting and weighting the scores for each view, add up the totals for each watch and rank them.
Regardless of how it’s done, I’d love to see this become an annual “Voted Best of Class Award” for Subs and other watches as well.
