Updates: Top 250 Beers & More!

Blog Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by Todd, Jan 19, 2013.

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  1. Todd

    Todd Founder (13,254) Aug 23, 1996 Finland
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    Due to Hads (quick ratings) being applied to overall beer averages and increased site activity, we've made some changes to ensure our ratings and lists are as accurate and relevant as possible.

    Top 250 Beers: http://beeradvocate.com/lists/top
    "Top 100" popular with 10 or more is no more. It's been replaced with BeerAdvocate's Top 250 Beers, to create a list that stands out from the rest. We've also raised the minimum number of ratings to be eligible for the list from 10 to 100 in order to adjust for Hads and increasing activity on the site.

    Beers of Fame: http://beeradvocate.com/lists/fame
    We wanted to make this list of 100 classic brews more meaningful, more of an achievement. So we upped the minimum number of ratings to 2,000 and also require that beers be listed on the site for 2 or more years in order to be eligible for this list. This also helps create a bit more of a distinction compared to the Top 250 Beers.

    Top New Beers and Bottom of the List remain unchanged.

    Most Popular (Regions & Styles)
    "Top Beers" for regional lists and lists by beer style have been renamed, and we're now displaying 50 of the most popular beers accordingly. With a minimum of 10 ratings to be eligible they'll continue to be dynamic lists that allow both new and veteran brewers to rise and be recognized.

    West Coasters. We heard you. We now have two separate lists: Northwest and Pacific. Enjoy.

    We've also added some new countries. Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the Netherlands join the lists. Why these and not others? Activity. They're higher than others in user traffic and beer rating activity. We simply wanted to recognize this. Of course we'll continue to look at other countries in the future.

    Retired Beers
    On a related sidenote, it has been a while since we mass retiring of beers tagged as "limited" releases (brewed once and never again), so earlier yesterday we retired 2,780 beers. When this occurs beers are no longer eligible for any of the lists and brewery overalls are adjusted. We'll periodically retire limited release beers, but only if added 2 or more years ago.

    We view these lists as ever-changing snapshots of what's currently popular on BA, and we'll continue to adjust as the site evolves and data accumulates. In the meantime, Jason and I hope you enjoy the changes and welcome your feedback.

    Cheers!
     
  2. MCain04

    MCain04 Initiate (0) Jan 3, 2013 Texas

    Love the new lists and the weighted ratings. Thanks!
     
  3. sukwonee

    sukwonee Initiate (0) Dec 13, 2011 Washington

    I like this much better than the rating system before the update.
     
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  4. shuajw

    shuajw Pundit (830) Aug 12, 2007 Georgia
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    Any chance a top retired beer list will ever be created? I think that's something that tons of people would be interested in seeing.
     
  5. papat444

    papat444 Initiate (0) Dec 28, 2006 Canada (QC)

    Top Canada went from Top 100 to Top 25 :astonished:

    Any way to up it? Belgian & German beers are well represented in the Top 250 but there are only 5 Canadian ones and if one wants to see more, there's only 20 more in the Top 25 (minus the 5 in the 250) :grimacing:

    I find this excludes many worthy breweries. The Top 25 of Canada is almost the Top 25 of Quebec!

    Suugestion: Any way to give the option to show more after the 25 (not just Canada) but leave the default at 25? Sort of like the reviews being the default on a beer's page but you have the option to show the hads or hide them.
     
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  6. drabmuh

    drabmuh Initiate (0) Feb 7, 2004 Maryland

    Bring back the extended lists for styles please. Shortening those lists makes no sense. If you really want to delve into a particular style the top 50 was extremely useful. Although I should probably just sit right for a few months since altering how these lists are populated is a frequent "update" on this site.
     
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  7. yourefragile

    yourefragile Initiate (0) Dec 16, 2006 District of Columbia

    When is the next update to these lists? I'd like to still have access to some of the old ways of aggregating the top 100 to create a better sense of continuity with the history of the site.
     
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  8. eawolff99

    eawolff99 Pooh-Bah (2,236) May 10, 2010 Minnesota
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    Kaggen! is now 133 rated beer in the world? RareR DOS is 172? Really? Come on... These were top 25 beers a few days ago...doesn't make any sense.
     
  9. Smakawhat

    Smakawhat Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,727) Mar 18, 2008 Maryland
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    This is great stuff! I actually prefer the new Canada list it used to be filled with so many brews that were written with maybe 10-15 reviews if that? It looks more concise.

    aw the Tripel list is so small :slight_frown: how will I go on, I think I'll live... :stuck_out_tongue: darn those pesky Tripels you will be mine! .. all of you someday...
     
  10. shuajw

    shuajw Pundit (830) Aug 12, 2007 Georgia
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    It looks like beers with reviews in the 100's really took a hit. One of the Peg's Canitna beers (RareR D.O.S.) went from low 30's to 172.
     
  11. Ri0

    Ri0 Initiate (0) Jul 1, 2012 Wisconsin

    I agree, Top 25 doesn't give me much to work with if there aren't many distributed to my state. I'd prefer it went back to 50.
     
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  12. Smakawhat

    Smakawhat Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,727) Mar 18, 2008 Maryland
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    I love the count list of "your own" at the bottom of the list! Real useful!
     
  13. Thorpe429

    Thorpe429 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,655) Aug 18, 2008 Illinois
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    That's been there for at least the past few years.
     
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  14. Smakawhat

    Smakawhat Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,727) Mar 18, 2008 Maryland
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    It has? man I never even noticed it before :confused:
     
  15. eawolff99

    eawolff99 Pooh-Bah (2,236) May 10, 2010 Minnesota
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    Exactly! So apparently a list of beer rankings really doesn't rank beers based on how they taste, they rank by how many people tried it and thought it tasted good. ISO: Kaggen! FT: Hop Rod Rye
     
  16. abraxel

    abraxel Initiate (0) Aug 28, 2009 Michigan

    Is your complaint that those beers deserve to be much higher on the list, or is it that change is bad?

    There's enough activity on this site that if a beer has only 100-200 Hads and Reviews, it's barely available to anyone and is probably predominately rated by locals or even regulars of the brewery. There's now a higher standard of proof to be placed high on the list, and that seems like a good thing because local/regional bias is real. If Närke and Peg's want their top beers ranked higher, they should release them more often :wink:
     
  17. fox227

    fox227 Initiate (0) Nov 19, 2010 California

    Wow! I've only HAD like five beers in the Pacific list and I'm in San Diego County! I feel like I've had so many beers from here! Stupid wales. (grumbles)

    PS: I'm not saying that the beers that I haven't had shouldn't be on the list, but rather I'm expressing my frustration in not finding many of them.
     
  18. yourefragile

    yourefragile Initiate (0) Dec 16, 2006 District of Columbia

    According to Todd's initial post in this thread these new lists are both as accurate and relevant as possible.

    I'm just curious if he wants to clarify what they are trying to be accurate and relevant to? I'm assuming a more inclusive, broad appeal audience than previous lists were targeted at? (Saying the new Top 250 "stands out from the rest" doesn't really say anything at all)
     
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  19. Auror

    Auror Pooh-Bah (1,641) Jan 1, 2010 Massachusetts
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    I've got a view bug/issue. On IE at work, the dropdown for different styles under "Most Popular Beers (by style):" on the right sidebar is unreadable and tiny. This is the same on any of the lists pages.

    But I've got no complaints about any of the changes.
     
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  20. drabmuh

    drabmuh Initiate (0) Feb 7, 2004 Maryland

    So years ago the Top style lists were introduced as top 10 lists. At the time it was great and made sense. A couple of years back those lists were expanding to 50. Again, a great improvement. At the time it was explained that finally there were a lot more beers in the database and several beer styles could populate a meaningful top 50 list. I'd link to that announcement but it has disappeared due to other changes like losing the forum posts. So explain the logic behind folding the Hads into the same pot as reviews increasing the number of ratings to almost 2.7 million and THEN lower the number of beers on the style and geography lists? Too much information?

    This site already provides less data for the user that spends time to keep the database current and relevant. We no longer know how many different breweries , states, countries we've reviewed beer from. We don't know how many photos, beers, places we added to the database either. Now the one portion of the site's database we could interact with has been further restricted to 25 top Belgian beers and 25 American IPAs. Why? Was a top 100 Belgian beers standing in your way of having "Top Beers - Mexico". Dos XX is number #25 on that list. This is where people usually write LOL or LMFAO.
     
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