I have a question:
Do the amount of ratings count when listing the top games or just the ratings?
If just the ratings, would that mean that even if a game has only 1 rating, if that rating is 5/5 out of everything does that make it a better rating than a game that got, because of many mixed ratings 4.5/5?
As per my understanding from previous Jams, your final score is calculated based on the raw ratings you have received and the average of all the rating in the Jam. Therefore, it is important to get a lot of ratings to get an accurate final score. If you receive few ratings, it will probably get skewed by the average score pretty badly.
This is my limited understanding. I have no idea how the exact calculations work. Feel free to correct me :)
Also, found this post discussing the rating system:
Yeah, I had the same question and when I searched for issues with rating systems I saw complains about seeing games with high rating, but from a few rates that took places of much popular games. However I also checked previous Wowie jams and top always consisted of games with higher than average rates)
