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Band elimination polls...
mberan42:
Ok, took it upon myself to start a separate nomination thread.
michaelicious:
Excellent!
David_Dovey:
It also increases the amount of work the people putting this together have to do. I already suggested a way to break ties (band with the most votes over all albums takes it).
rynne:
I was wondering about the initial nomination process, too. I think the problem with an album poll, vs. the earlier a band poll, is that you'll see a much wider spread of possible choices. Looking over the nomination thread, I'm hard-pressed to find a single album that’s nominated by even 20% of the people, which doesn't speak much to consensus. Furthermore, the band-with-the-most-albums tiebreaker isn't entirely fair: it'd penalize bands who've put out fewer albums, simply because they have less other options to use as a tiebreaker. It also can't deal with the possibility of a tie between albums from the same artist (how many Dylan albums are nominated already?).
Could I suggest a second preliminary round? Perhaps from the pool of nominated albums on March 23, everyone ranks 20 albums by a points system (your favorite gets 20 pts, second gets 19 pts…) and the however-many bands with the most points go to the voting rounds. That'll give a much more concrete, finely-graded system for rankings, and---since we're forced to vote for at least 10 albums we didn't nominate ourselves---it'll hopefully help albums of general quality to rise to the top by somewhat mitigating personal taste. Personal taste in albums can be sufficiently determined by the real vote-elimination portion.
rynne:
--- Quote from: Ben792x on 17 Mar 2009, 07:23 ---That is a good idea, but isn't the album with the most points then already the winner? OR would we still go to the bracket and seeding system in hopes of an upset somewhere down the road / to spur discussion of the merits of each particular album.
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Hmm... good point.
I was just trying to figure out if there was a way to get better brackets. I was just seeing how there were tons of good albums that only had one or two nominations and feeling like, if the bracket selection got down that far, choosing which got in could be essentially random.
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