Rankopedia: Ranking of the Month - October 2007

Below are 6 nominees (there are an incredible 394 candidates & I looked at every single one) that were made during October 2007. I went through all of them (as I always do). I whittled them down to 41 to consider. (Last month there were 47 and the month before that there were 18.) From those 41, I wound up with these 6. I want an honest & serious discussion from the Rankopedia membership on which of these rankings deserves to be considered the Ranking of the Month - October 2007. (Note: More weight is given to opinions that are well-reasoned and sound arguments. Extra credit will be given to arguments that establish buy-ins from other members.)

1) "Most Promising Future Aborted for a Musician Who Died Young (45 or Under)" - Greguva
Intro: Excellent
Candidate Inclusion: Very comprehensive
Views: 379
Votes: 58 (# 6 for the month)
# of Ratings: 9
Rating: 4.77
Data Entry Points: 480 (# 1 for the month) (6 columns/80 candidates)
Justifications: 10 (# 3 for the month)
Comments: 8 (# 3 for the month)
Forum Interest: None

Notes: N/A

2) "Best Member of Rankopedia (September-December 2007)" - Harvey*
Intro: Adequate
Candidate Inclusion: Very comprehensive
Views: 1,259 (# 5 for the month)
Votes: 110 (# 1 for the month)
# of Ratings: 29 (# 1 for the month)
Rating: 4.20
Data Entry Points: 480 (# 1 for the month) (6 columns/80 candidates)
Justifications: 22 (# 1 for the month)
Comments: 42 (# 1 for the month)
Forum Interest: None

3) "Best Rock Instrumental" - Greguva
Intro: Good
Candidate Inclusion: Very comprehensive
Views: 456 (# 10 for the month)
Votes: 55 (# 8 for the month)
# of Ratings: 8
Rating: 4.75
Data Entry Points: 480 (# 1 for the month) (6 columns/80 candidates)
Justifications: 4
Comments: 7 (# 4 for the month)
Forum Interest: None

4) "Most Famous Person in an Automobile Death" - Reindeerfive
Intro: Good
Candidate Inclusion: Comprehensive
Views: 23,539 (# 1 for the month)
Votes: 57 (# 7 for the month)
# of Ratings: 13 (# 3 for the month)
Rating: 4.92 (# 3 for the month)
Data Entry Points: 275 (6 columns/46 candidates)
Justifications: 7 (# 6 for the month)
Comments: 5 (# 8 for the month)
Forum Interest: None

5) "Best Barcelona Player Ever" - Petey
Intro: Inadequate
Candidate Inclusion: Good
Views: 2,734 (# 2 for the month)
Votes: 62 (# 5 for the month)
# of Ratings: 9
Rating: 4.55
Data Entry Points: 205 (6 columns/34 candidates)
Justifications: 7 (# 6 for the month)
Comments: 5 (# 8 for the month)
Forum Interest: None

6) "Best Dustin Hoffman Movie" - Reindeerfive
Intro: Very good
Candidate Inclusion: Comprehensive
Views: 205
Votes: 41
# of Ratings: 10 (# 10 for the month)
Rating: 4.60
Data Entry Points: 280 (6 columns/47 candidates)
Justifications: 5
Comments: 9 (# 2 for the month)
Forum Interest: None

The Ranking of the Month is ranking that represents the ideals of the site best. It should be well made. Very thought provoking. Influential. A game-changer. It should resonate months if not years after it is made. Everything will be considered. It's composition. Originality. Execution. Creativity. Its votes, comments, views, ratings. Its forum interest. It all is open.

2nd: Most Promising Future Aborted for a Musician Who Died Young (45 or Under)

3rd: Best Member of Rankopedia (September-December 2007)

I'd also like to say that every single ranking in here is great and all by great ranking creators.

2) Most Famous Person in an Automobile Death

3) Best Rock Instrumental

2. Most Famous Person in an Automobile Death

3. Best Member of Rankopedia (September-December 2007)

2) Most promising future aborted

3) Famous Auto death

2) Best Rankopedia Member Normally I take this time to deride Harvey for including these incestuous Rankopedia related rankings but I've got to admit it was one hell of a class.

3) Best Rock Instrumental A prototypical Greguva musical ranking. It's essential and well done but it's not as flashy as some of the competition.

4) Most Famous Person To Die In A Car Crash would be a better title. There's no point in pussy footing around the subject matter. It's a bit on the macabre side, but it's a cult classic for sure.

5) Best Barcelona Player Why was this included? I'm an American with little interest in soccer and the introduction doesn't bother to explain WTF a "Barcelona Player" is. Epic fail

6) Best Dustin Hoffman Movie I think Rankopedia should create a better index for rankings like this. Alone, they aren't terribly interesting, but if all the best actor/actress movie rankings were put together you'd have a nice resource for movie buffs.

The Silver Medal - Most Promising Future...This is in a virtual tie for 1st. Both have similar themes and appeal, both have problematic titles. The only reason why this came in second is because the concept is more nuanced. I actually prefer nuance over blunt force trauma, but this month's winner is going to create a traffic jam as people stop by to rubberneck.

Gold Medal- Most Famous Person in an Automobile Death- IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS Do I have to explain why the title is poor? You've got to use the phrase "car crash", even "automoblile accident" is too weak. It's a ranking about famous people who died in car crashes.

2.Most promising future

3.Rock instrumental

You of course have to include the word 'accident' or 'crash' in the title, otherwise John F. Kennedy would have to be included because he died in an automobile (then again, maybe Oswald accidentally shot him while cleaning his rifle).

2. Best Rock Instrumental

3. Automobile Accident

2.Most Promising Future Aborted for a Musician Who Died Young

6) Barcelona Player - Although updated far too few candidates for a club like this...

5) Best Rock Instrumental - purely due to my ignorance of music and that I hadn't heard of many of the songs....bands yes, songs no....if it had a Doors one in...Peacefrog for example, maybe it would have got a place better :)

4) Best Rankopedia Member - Great, thorough ranking but there are similar rankings out there for different periods of Rankopedia's difference, doubt that this is differentiated so much that it could be considered number 1 for Oct '07

3) Dustin Hoffman Movie - Great thorough raking like the Rankopedia Member but again there are lots like this out there for various great actors and actresses, hard to say that this is so different that it should be the best....

2) Tough choice.....Both are interesting, both are informative, both are very well done, both are definite 5 star rankings....on a coin flip I call Most Promising Future Aborted for a Musician, purely as it is focussed on music, if that is a reason.... sorry. :)

1) So first by the narrowest margin yet as far as I am concerned is Most famous person in automobile death....Superb Ranking!

Ironically, I was working on a ranking similar to Greguva's at the time he released it; he beat me to the punch. And fortunately for all of us he did, because Greguva is much better a music rankings than I am.

Neither Greguva or I ever self promote our rankings, so the relatively low vote totals from members on the rankings (62 for Musician, 60 for automobile death) is explanatory.

They both are complete rankings in terms of information and candidate inclusion, and are nationally diversified.

A lot of it comes down to what appeals to you more. Music, particularly rock music, is very popular on Rankopedia. So in that sense, the Musician ranking is a bullseye on the sites membership.

The Autmobile death ranking has a phenomenal # of views: 23,864. I think this is because of the pictures, and Princess Diana is one of the most searched individuals in internet history, so that may come into play there. Given the number of views (compared to 400 for the Music ranking), the Automobile ranking has far greater potential to draw in new members.

Really, I cannot separate the two, other than to state that they are miles ahead of the other four candidates.

Given that I will vote, I'm going to give my ranking about The Most Famous Person to Die in an Automobile Accident the win at 1a, with The Most Promising Future Aborted for a Musician at 1b. The swing vote for me is the # of views.

But both are deserving.

2) Death by rock.

# 3 "Most Promising Future Aborted for a Musician Who Died Young (45 or Under)" - Tough race between # 2 & 3. I really just want to vote Reindeer's ranking higher. Mainly because it is about famous people with no boundaries except a car crash incident. Greguva's ranking is excellent, but it is specific to musicians. I just think Reindeer's has more global appeal.

# 2 "Most Famous Person to Die in an Automobile Death" (see # 3 for reasoning)

# 1 "Best Member of Rankopedia (September-December 2007)" It is # 1 in five different significant categories. I understand the arguments about this ranking does not have interest to non-members outside the site. But I would argue, that this ranking has been very interesting for the members of Rankopedia. Do non-members really care about the Ranking of the Month. Of course not.