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Most Diverging Opinions

Top 10 Best Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 your name. (movie) 9.16 433
2 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.10 5549
3 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.09 4432
4 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.06 5110
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.97 6608
6 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.94 7724
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10364
8 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.91 447
9 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 12025
10 (The) Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (movie) 8.87 2715
This rating only includes titles that have at least 13 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.5192). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are great. (formula)
bayesian rating = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the anime
v = number of votes for the anime
m = minimum votes required to be listed (currently 13)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.5192)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
5237 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 2.09 196
5236 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.73 492
5235 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.76 53
5234 Psychic Wars (OAV) 2.99 124
5233 MD Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.31 278
5232 D.I.C.E. (TV) 3.42 144
5231 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.43 700
5230 Duel Masters (TV) 3.44 620
5229 MD Geist (OAV) 3.47 456
5228 Reign: The Conqueror (TV) 3.56 697
This rating only includes titles that have at least 13 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.5192). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are awful. (formula)
bayesian rating = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
R = average for the anime
v = number of votes for the anime
m = minimum votes required to be listed (currently 13)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.5192)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
24 your name. (movie) 9.21 433
25 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.10 5549
26 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.09 4432
27 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.06 5110
49 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.97 6608
50 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.95 447
51 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.94 7724
52 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10364
54 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 12025
55 In This Corner of the World (movie) 8.88 9
The rating is an average of the scores given by voters, weighted to give less importance to users with unnatural voting patterns. Titles with less than 4 votes are removed from the list but are still counted in the ranking. This explains why there may be gaps in the "#" column.

Top 10 Most Popular (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) 8.73 13304
2 Death Note (TV) 8.87 12695
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12025
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.97 10364
5 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.57 10104
6 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.93 9677
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.31 10355
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10069
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.87 9012
10 Bleach (TV) 7.95 9091
The most popular titles are determined with a simple summation of all votes. Titles with many votes will tend to be at the top, but this is modified a little by the ratings. In other words, the popularity is the straight average score of a title (the value in the rating column) multiplied by the number of votes.

Top 10 Most Viewed (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
1 Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) 8.65 23331
2 Death Note (TV) 8.79 21788
3 Bleach (TV) 7.79 20714
4 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.90 20638
5 Naruto (TV) 7.41 18233
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 17624
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.18 16813
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.50 15521
9 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.87 15137
10 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15089
The "seen by" column indicates the number of people who have added the title in MyAnime, either in "seen some", "seen all", or "will not finish" categories. The rating displayed here is the same weighted average as the Top 10 Best Rated by weighted average, but is only displayed for reference and doesn't have anything to do with the order of the titles.

Top 10 Most Underrated (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
+5237 A Silent Voice (movie) 8.26 32
+5185 Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare (movie 20) 7.71 21
+5127 Tamayura: Sotsugyō Shashin (movie series) 7.95 29
+5104 Kin-iro Mosaic: Pretty Days (special) 7.52 17
+4951 Aoyama Gōshō Tanpen-shū (OAV) 7.70 26
+4904 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (movie) 7.92 35
+4831 Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (movie) 7.68 28
+4721 Kekkai Sensen: Ō-sama no Restaurant no Ō-sama (OAV) 7.43 20
+4680 Porfy no Nagai Tabi (TV) 7.75 36
+4652 Gekijō-ban Hibike! Euphonium: Kitauji Kōkō Suisōgaku-Bu e Yōkoso (movie) 7.54 27
This is a list of the titles that deserve to be seen more. Based on the premise that titles deserve to be seen in equal proportion to how well rated they are, the value in the "#" column is the number of positions by which this title would climb in the Most Viewed list if it was seen as much as it was liked (according to bayesian rating).

Top 10 Most Overrated (Top 50)
# title rating seen by
-5000 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8501
-4946 Hamtaro (TV) 4.61 3759
-4921 Pokémon (TV) 5.48 7019
-4914 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.29 4669
-4765 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.68 2568
-4763 Beyblade (TV) 4.23 2435
-4722 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.01 2477
-4687 X (movie) 5.56 3511
-4626 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.37 2519
-4611 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.42 2560
This is a list of the titles that didn't deserve to be seen as much as they have been. Based on the premise that titles deserve to be seen in equal proportion to how well rated they are, the value in the "#" column is the number of positions by which this title would drop in the Most Viewed list if it was seen as much as it was liked (according to bayesian rating).

Top 10 Most Diverging Opinions (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Musashi (TV) 4.24 ±4.411 140
2 Sekai Meisaku Dōwa: Mori wa Ikiteiru (movie) 7.08 ±3.700 19
3 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.43 ±3.645 15
4 Vixens (OAV) 5.21 ±3.550 23
5 Bosco Daibōken (TV) 7.15 ±3.455 17
6 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.62 ±3.365 83
7 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.32 ±3.355 123
8 PoPoLoCrois (TV) 5.98 ±3.349 19
9 Ikkyū-san (TV 1975) 6.91 ±3.349 23
10 Triangle Blue (OAV) 5.92 ±3.266 28
Only includes titles with at least 13 votes. The rating column contains the baysesian rating ± the standard deviation, with the order of the titles being determined by the standard deviation.