Because that's how he handled the movies. (Though the movies didn't have a 5, and had two 1's... but one of those would have been a 0 if the other film didn't exist and tank the franchise.)mathewgsmith wrote: ↑Mon Aug 26, 2019 9:13 pm Why would it be equal numbers per rank? If 5 is defined as being standard for the series you would expect a standard bell curve where about half the episodes are in the 4-6 range.
Depends on how you combine the scores to get the result and how you want to rank them, and what you're defining as average.
Ranking each episode against a neutral standard gets a bell curve.
Ranking the series as a whole and final scores as a whole would get you you equal results in each category, because there's got to be a bottom 10 episodes... but in this system those might not all be ranked a 1.
Generally, unless he's trying to figure out the difference between a 1 and 2, or a 9 and a 10, Chuck is judging each episode individually and roughly instead of actually against other episodes, based on an overall feeling and perception rather than a hard pre-defined scale.
Right now the combined total for DS9 episodes is 631 over 103 episodes. Gives it an average of 6.1.
23 episodes ranked 0-4.
14 episodes ranked 5.
67 episodes ranked 6-10.
That's nearly 2/3 above average. Biased by the fact that the less interesting or dull episodes haven't been requested yet so that may even out when the whole series is done since we're still missing about 1/3. But if you want a bottom 10, you're getting things ranked 0, 1, 2, AND 3.
