Top 100 all-time as rated on RYM and PA

And, sorry, but for me, Pawn Hearts is just a messy H to He.. on it's way to Godbluff, and that's just an example on how different an album can be received by "Prog lovers".

On Rate Your Music Pat Metheny is not considered progressive rock. In this case, I really appreciate the articulated classification in genres and sub-genres made by RYM, which does not consider jazz rock fusion progressive rock, as well as distinguishes between progressive rock and progressive electronic. In this matter, the editors of RYM have done a great job. In my opinion, Progarchives has exceeded the prog boundaries considerably, and this also creates a lot of problems in the charts. 

But okay, the seize and exactness of the averages might not be so important because the big question concerning the ranking is how to weight the average vs the number of ratings, and that is very subjective.

I reckon you haven't seen my definition.

"But I'm more interested on how you are integrating the number of reviews in your equation and how it affects up or down the average"

Well, I just use RYM's and PA's averages for each album, and don't do any further with them (except weight them according to the number of ratings). So, regarding my list, if RYM's and PA's methods for calculating the averages are different, the averages are not quite comparable, and that can be said to be a methodic problem in my list - which I'm glad to become aware of.

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I guess there are differences in the methods which gives favour for PA's rating, compared to that every rating should weight equally.

(So, maybe jamesbaldwin can't complain. )

"Sorry if I seem to insist, but your list starts with the album with most ratings (I think that's the numbers in brackets before the "r") and this seems to drive up the scores to above 12.5 (though some/most of these albums would be up there, regardless) and yet Grey & Pink, COTC and Caravanserai are way down the list with a sensibly lesser amount of reviews. Surprisingly GYBE!'s album is abnormaly high given the weird amount of reviews

It's that part of your leverage mechanism that I'm interested in. "

It's very allright you insist to understand my ranking but it's apparently difficult for you to understand what I write.

As I have written to you, I don't do anything concerning reviews, and so, I don't use any leverage mechanism. All I do for each album is to take RYM's and PA's average for it, and to calculate an average of these two averages, and this average is weighted according to the number of ratings given on RYM and PA respectively.
So, in that way I have a total average, plus a sum (RYM+PA) of all ratings for each album. And then, depending of this combined average and number of ratings, I decide how I want to rank a certain album. In doing that, I can say, I weight quite a lot the number of ratings comparing to the average, which can be seen in my ranking. 
That is because I think, it's very important how many persons give very high rating.

Anyway, this gives a good opportunity for others to hear about my ranking method, and please, still ask if you want some more to know or understand.

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Or it's more correct to say that I use the number of ratings as a kind of leverage mechanism, and how I do it, it's of course subjective, and can be done otherwise.  And if you meant "ratings" when you wrote "reviews", I understand my confusion, and it's more like I misunderstood what you meant.

Good to know, and I'll correct that on the list.

There are a crap ton of albums by bands that are never appreciated. Many bands I like are absent from such lists.