Scenario ratings.

[Dog Soldier]

Liebchen,

Mystery solved......almost.

The rating on the scenario list is related to the (third question when posting a game result) in the tell us about your experience section. This a separate rating of 0-5 stars. If you notice the stars in the upper left hand corner of the scenario detail screen, this matches the rating column on the far right of the scenario listings.

Click on the stars in the scenario detail screen to see the separate ratings given that make up this score. For 0624_22a: Breakthrough at Parichi - [HTH], only one player has rated the scenario, (you might know him). He gave this scenario a three star rating.

I checked this on other scenarios that have more than one game report and the results work just fine. Now we get to Huib's question which is related to yours.

Huib,
To address your question I looked at several scenarios for different games. Again the detail scenario screen holds the key. On your scenario, "A Dutch Verdun", There are four players using the star ratings. (two 5's and two 4's). Normally this should rate a 4.5 (18/4). I noticed there were six players who have posted game results and only four of them used the star ratings system.

So the question becomes, how does the DB code handle a 0 or null rating from the other two players?

The first two players to post a game result are the ones not listed as using the star rating system. The system may not have existed at the time these posts were recorded. I checked other scenarios where the number of ratings was equal in both rating systems, yet the number of the rating did not add up to the average. So I think we can rule out 0 or null ratings as a factor input by players.

I checked a number of other games where the ratings did not seem to add up to the rating stated. There must be a glitch or corruption of the data somewhere, yet I was unable to find the pattern at this time.

Dog Soldier