Obviously there's the rating average. But is there a certain number of reviews required before a club makes the list? I believe there's one club on the list of the Top 10 with only 50 reviews. I ask because I see Big Al's in Peoria, IL. would debut at #8 (or 9) nationally with it's 8.24 average. But it only has 35 reviews. Thanks, CT
"But is there a certain number of reviews required before a club makes the list?"<br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Yes, the "magical" number of <i>recent</i> reviews/<i>reviewers</i> for a club to make that listing used to be between 8 & 13 (most likely 12), but I'm sure that's it been changed (upped) since late 2008.</span></span><br />
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"But it only has 35 reviews."<br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It's not really the number of reviews...it's the number of individual <b>reviewers</b> that counts. The rating that a club gets is dependent on things such as the number of reviews from reviewers with a "long" membership (which are weighted more than newbies), the number of reviews that are "recent" (from no more than around 2 years old or so), and a whole bunch of other things that founder likes to keep secret to prevent abuse, which is his right...since it's his website.<br />
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You should post this as a thread on the discussion board...as you'll likely get more responses that way.<br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Yes, the "magical" number of <i>recent</i> reviews/<i>reviewers</i> for a club to make that listing used to be between 8 & 13 (most likely 12), but I'm sure that's it been changed (upped) since late 2008.</span></span><br />
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"But it only has 35 reviews."<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">It's not really the number of reviews...it's the number of individual <b>reviewers</b> that counts. The rating that a club gets is dependent on things such as the number of reviews from reviewers with a "long" membership (which are weighted more than newbies), the number of reviews that are "recent" (from no more than around 2 years old or so), and a whole bunch of other things that founder likes to keep secret to prevent abuse, which is his right...since it's his website.<br />
<br />
You should post this as a thread on the discussion board...as you'll likely get more responses that way.<br />
</span></span><br type="_moz" />