Saipan 1944

[Shad]

Can we get over this now?

Shad,

You are now beginning to sound like somebody who wishes to stop opinion being expressed here, somethiing you bemoan other forums and sites for doing

There is no 'getting over' the fact that a complete set of 4 and 5 ratings for a WHOLE set from the developer of THAT set. Its plain daft. Furthermore, it makes a nonsense of the whole point of the HQ. So much work (man-hours) has been put in by many people and of course, most of all by you and yet, for all that, you are going to have a 'rogue' rating for an 'expansion' sitting atop the pile. (Rogue being the partisanship and not the person btw).

To date, the best 'expansions' rate 3.91 down to 3.88 for third spot. They then go down to 3.56 for 10th. Nihon Silk is showing 4.36 a whole half point above the best or a full 12.5% more points. I'm certainly not going to let this point go until some sensibility is restored here, or the game is proven by us the plebiscite to rate that high. Other developers flatly refuse to rate their scenarios and I know that as a fact.

Instead of 'getting over' this, then the riposte is clearly

"Can we get realistic with this now"

Sorry to to be brusque, but I felt the last line on your post was brusque also.

I agree it's daft: they should all be 5's. Otherwise the developer is admitting that he didn't give his best effort and/or turned in shoddy work.

While I respect your attention to statistical detail, I do not share your concern that some wholly ignorant (they'd have to be) potential customer will get burned by one developer rating per scenario and buy the wrong item. Nor do I lose sleep that those scenarios will somehow get a leg-up over other scenarios in the rankings because we do, afterall, require a 5 vote minimum, an arbitrary cutoff which we could arbitrarily raise at any time.

In a hypothetical situation where Jay rates dogshit a 5 and four others rate it a 1, you're averaging out to a 1.8 -- still quite clearly dogshit. This isn't euros vs. wargamer drama on BGG with hundreds of BS votes dude.

To me, this is much ado about nothing, and detracts from the credit Jay should be receiving for his dedication to this series.

You are now beginning to sound like somebody who wishes to stop opinion being expressed here, somethiing you bemoan other forums and sites for doing

Nonsense and you know it!