JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum So Where Does Your Song Rank On Ourstage?

The shuffling process is not flawed. On the OurStage FAQ it explicitly says that it will often give you the same song several times in order to get an accurate opinion from you. For example, lets say you vote on Song A vs. Song B. You love both songs, but Song B is just slightly better than A, so you vote Song B as better. However, that one vote doesn't really tell the OurStage system much - what if you thought both songs were really bad, and song B was just marginally less bad than song A?

So, it clarifies your opinion by giving you more matchups to see what you REALLY think of any given song. This is not to say you will continue to get the same song in a row many times, of course, just that it is built into the system to have the same song matched up in a row if it needs clarification.

But more importantly, you'd have to do thousands or tens of thousands of votes to get a statistically valid picture of the rate of any given song(s) being presented. If you flip a coin five times in a row it's possible that it will land on heads every time. That doesn't mean the coin is broken or weighted. It's not LIKELY that would happen, but it's well within the realm of possibility.

Of course, during the quarterfinals, you are GUARANTEED to get every song the same amount of times. That's why you have a limited number of battles in the final rounds. You get every song matched up against every other song exactly once, and no more.