What the fuck!?

Join the club. :)

Shit

Tis true when the ballot box is stuffed.

Page ranking must be off by a light year, I guess.

Needs correction, but I'm no expert in page ranking.

Yep. I looked at their Facebook page and thought something fishy is going on when a small jack shack with a few mediocre looking girls becomes one of the top clubs in the world.

They do seem to be on the tech savvy side, so perhaps the code has been cracked on how to manipulate the system.

@Ranukam-I never understand ANY ranking system. Years ago, I just plain gave up on following any rankings/top ten list, etc.

Predrag- You took the words right out of my mouth.

This site uses what is called crowd sourcing. Any random observers making rankings,ratings or guesses will get closer to the right answer the more the responses there are. Only 22 reviews would be a skewed sample to begin with even without shill reviews. The Detroit clubs often have hindreds of reviews and these lead to more accurate ratings. I guess you can only encourage your friends to review their visits and increase the sample size.

It has a high percentage of new reviews. That might be the secret to it.

Sounds like someone is manipulating the system – perhaps Founder needs to implement a more rigorous algorithm when it comes to club rankings; if there is one.

For the benefit of the new guys, I will try to explain how the ratings are determined.

Reviewer A goes to the club 10 times and each time he rates it a 10. His average rating for the club is 10.

Reviewer B goes to the same club only once and rates it a 1. His average rating for the club is 1.

Now you add up the total number of averages. in this case 10+1 = 11

Then divide the averages by the number of reviewers. In this case 11 / 2 = 5.5

Therefore the club rating is 5.5. Now Founder does has his secrets that he applies to try to make it a more level playing field. For instance a reviewer with 200 reviews carries more weight than a reviewer with just 1.

Obviously it is easier to influence the rating of a club with only a few reviews than a club with hundreds.

the ranking lists have no bearing on reality...
for the longest time Savanna's (Harrisburg, PA) was in the top 10 national, granted it's easily the best option in Harrisburg, but no where near the best in PA let along nationally.

could be the algorithm is like or similar to a straight line depreciation method.

would suggest a variety of calculations/methods and see how numbers roll-up.

Reminds me of when Christie's in canton was top ten