I'm not posting this in Feature Requests because I'm not sure myself if this is a good/useful idea, or one that I ask of the site staff to do; I can do it myself, if needed, and post it here instead.
The idea is that, like the Rankings list for players, there's also a list of beatmappers, ordered according to the weighted average of their beatmaps' ratings.
For those who don't know, a weighted average or weighted mean is an average where the numbers added up each have a different degree of influence on the final result. In this case, a rating of 8,00 based on 50 votes should have a greater influence on the average than an equal rating based on 2 votes, because this is a result based on a larger consensus of people. The formula is:
Weighted average = (Rating #1 * its number of votes) + (Rating #2 * its number of votes) etc.../Total number of votes for all maps
On one hand, having rankings for beatmappers as well as players could provide some symmetry for the two sides of osu!. On the other hand, while playing ability depends entirely on the player, a beatmapper's score depends on the votes his maps receive from other people. If such a list existed, in a worst case scenario people could urge their friends to vote high for their own maps or even create sockpuppets, and conversely they could give poor ratings to rival beatmaps. I definitely don't want that to happen.
So...thoughts? I think I'll add a poll. Personally, I think that if this idea proves popular, it should be an unofficial sort of thing, although if it were a site feature it could be updated in real time and calculated automatically instead of me crunching numbers every once in a while.
The idea is that, like the Rankings list for players, there's also a list of beatmappers, ordered according to the weighted average of their beatmaps' ratings.
For those who don't know, a weighted average or weighted mean is an average where the numbers added up each have a different degree of influence on the final result. In this case, a rating of 8,00 based on 50 votes should have a greater influence on the average than an equal rating based on 2 votes, because this is a result based on a larger consensus of people. The formula is:
Weighted average = (Rating #1 * its number of votes) + (Rating #2 * its number of votes) etc.../Total number of votes for all maps
On one hand, having rankings for beatmappers as well as players could provide some symmetry for the two sides of osu!. On the other hand, while playing ability depends entirely on the player, a beatmapper's score depends on the votes his maps receive from other people. If such a list existed, in a worst case scenario people could urge their friends to vote high for their own maps or even create sockpuppets, and conversely they could give poor ratings to rival beatmaps. I definitely don't want that to happen.
So...thoughts? I think I'll add a poll. Personally, I think that if this idea proves popular, it should be an unofficial sort of thing, although if it were a site feature it could be updated in real time and calculated automatically instead of me crunching numbers every once in a while.
Ideally, I think that the formula should still give more weight to the actual ratings for each individual map.
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