Ineffable Wingbolt Silent Motion Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Once again, djurx comes through! Alex is now a 1-stop shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Now that the SW ratings are searchable (and viewable alongside CSR and Alex ratings), I'm starting to understand why the community laughs at the SW ratings. Aftershocks (evidently a solid scenario but not a great classic) is rated 4.5. An Apology -- one of the best BoE scenarios of all time -- is rated 4.1. A sampling of scenarios rated higher than An Apology on the SW tables: Avalon (4.2 by SW, 4.88 by CSR) Compositus (4.3 by SW, 3.34 by CSR) Gray Moon: the Hand of Darkness (4.4 by SW, 4.93 by CSR) The Wreck of the Slug (4.4 by SW, 6.52 by CSR) And of course, the ever-classic The Realm of the Dragon Knights ties An Apology at 4.1 (where CSR puts it at 4.17). EDIT: To anyone who doesn't know -- lurkers? newbies? -- the reason this is laughable is that SW's ratings are out of 5, but CSR's are out of 10. An Apology has a 9.5 right now at CSR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Djur Revolutions Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 I think it'd be interesting to normalize Spiderweb scores (by doubling them) and compare them to Alexandria and Lyceum scores. What the deviation is, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 E-mail me the document that you sent to Brett that had all of the ratings on it, and I'll toss it into a spreadsheet and see what happens. I'm curious, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Djur Revolutions Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Since you're busy archiving, I went ahead and did a few comparisons. Speaks for itself. This is only comparing the surprisingly small intersection of scenarios reviewed at both SW and CSR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast ben4808 Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Something I find interesting--Bandit Busywork is rated 4.0 at Spiderweb. It's rated 3.something at CSR, compared to Spiderweb's 8 if a comparable scale is used. Since Bandit Busywork was created by Jeff, I wonder if he just hafhazardly gave it a 4 so he could put it on the solid adventures table. Either that or a bunch of newbies rated it on the basis that it was the only non-default scenario they've ever played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Djur Revolutions Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Following are the ten scenarios most differently rated at SW and CSR. All are rated more highly at SW than CSR. Grinch, The (-6.61) Curse of Rentolhm, The Compositus Labyrinth Mairwen's Crystal Bandit Busywork Green Meadows Dragon's Eye Realm of the Dragon Knights, The Gray Moon: The Hand of Darkness (-3.87) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Dragyn Bob Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 What exactly is the average for the Grinch on the SW tables? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast ben4808 Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 A whopping 3.9. Only one tenth of a point more than the envied Bandit Busywork. Congrats, Vince! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Silent Motion Posted August 13, 2004 Author Share Posted August 13, 2004 I could double the SW scores when they're shown, maybe like 4.4(8.8) for example, or something like that. What would make the most sense to someone viewing it? And should it even be done? I could also create an average score based on the three review #s. Is it worth it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Imban Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Not really, Brett. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Djur Revolutions Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 I graphed the average, and the SW scores deviate enough that the curve looks pretty ugly compared to CSR. Not worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 You know, if you graph one of them so it's a smooth curve, of course the other one's going to look jaggy by comparison. You're presupposing that CSR always gets it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast ben4808 Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Right. Alternately, you should try graphing all the Spiderweb scores in order of highest to lowest. Then the CSR line would be the jagged one (even more so, I'd say, than the SW line on the previous graph). Or even better, make a huge bar graph with two bars for every scenario, as then it should show the comparasin more accurate. But I'm still going by CSR scores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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