The Ranking Formula

AFR: Average Film Rating

FC: Film Credits

Value: Numerical value associated with each film as it pertains to the film’s ‘tier.’

  • 100: 3 points
  • 90-99: 2 points
  • 80-89: 1.5 points
  • 70-79: 1 point
  • 60-69: .5 point
  • 50-59: 0 points
  • 25-49: -1 point
  • 0-24: -2 points

The Ranking Formula: Used for Directors, Writers, and Thespians

This formula adds 4 different terms:

AFR * (FC/(FC+2))

  • While this term used to simply be ‘AFR,’ the update to its current version causes those with small film counts to require a higher level of quality to achieve what others can with higher film credits. Using this formula, someone with 2 films only receives 50% of their AFR, whereas someone with 8 films receives 80% and someone with 38 films receives 95%. Thus, each new film, regardless of true rating, has the ability to increase someone’s score, as it leads to a larger chunk of their AFR being attributed.

Value

  • The value of a film is related to the ‘tier’ it falls under, as seen above. The original iteration of these tiers leaned far too heavily on people with large FC numbers who were able to overwhelm their own large number of negatively rated films. Initially, a film rated 0 would only cancel out the value of a film rated 79 at the most. Now, a film rated 0 will cancel out the value of a film rated as highly as 99. This way, value has a smaller impact on the overall score (a more reasonable one) and high counts of poorly rated films are significantly more detrimental to those credited with them.

Total Score = AFR * (FC/(FC+2)) + Value

Using Heath Ledger as an example (as I’ve seen every film I can find that he’s been in), his formula bears out a score like so:

52.41 = 56.00 * (20/(20+2)) + 1.5

  • With that score, Ledger is currently (as of 6/27/2019) ranked 1025th.
  • He is ranked 15th among actors with a 1.5 value (tied for 1521st highest value).
  • He is ranked 16th among actors with a FC = 20 (tied for 487th highest FC).
  • He is tied with 27 other people with an AFR of 56.00 including Cary Elwes, Margo Martindale, Imogen Poots, Michael B. Jordan, and Elisabeth Moss.
  • He is ranked 54th among actors that I’ve seen 2 Academy Award Nominations from.
  • He is ranked 87th among actors that I’ve seen 1 Academy Award Win from.

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