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Anime Top 10

Best Rated (bayesian estimate)
Worst Rated (bayesian estimate)
Best Rated (weighted average)
Most Popular
Most Viewed
Most Underrated
Most Overrated
Most Diverging Opinions

Top 10 Best Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
1 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.07 6072
2 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.04 4854
3 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5372
4 your name. (movie) 8.97 1293
5 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6701
6 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 7983
7 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10682
8 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12416
9 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 9955
10 Mushishi: The Next Chapter (TV) 8.85 564
This rating only includes titles that have at least 14 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 (7.484). 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 14)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.484)

Top 10 Worst Rated (bayesian estimate) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
6932 Hametsu No Mars (OAV) 1.97 216
6931 Skelter+Heaven (OAV) 2.47 78
6930 SD Gundam Force (TV) 2.90 505
6929 Psychic Wars (OAV) 3.02 134
6928 EX-ARM (TV) 3.33 38
6927 MD Geist II - Death Force (OAV) 3.43 295
6926 Duel Masters (TV) 3.47 629
6925 Tekken: The Motion Picture (OAV) 3.48 725
6924 Utsu-musume Sayuri (movie) 3.50 28
6923 Ki*Me*Ra (OAV) 3.60 199
This rating only includes titles that have at least 14 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 (7.484). 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 14)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 7.484)

Top 10 Best Rated (weighted average) (Top 50)
# title rating nb. votes
33 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV) 9.08 6072
34 Steins;Gate (TV) 9.04 4854
35 Clannad After Story (TV) 9.02 5372
58 your name. (movie) 8.99 1293
59 Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) 8.96 6701
60 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) 8.92 7983
61 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 10682
62 Suzume (movie) 8.90 11
63 Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS (TV) 8.89 14
64 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 12416
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) 8.72 13513
2 Death Note (TV) 8.86 13084
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.93 12416
4 Spirited Away (movie) 8.96 10682
5 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.92 9955
6 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.56 10219
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.29 10523
8 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.32 10353
9 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) 8.85 9300
10 Bleach (TV) 7.94 9230
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) 8.64 23797
2 Death Note (TV) 8.77 22541
3 Cowboy Bebop (TV) 8.89 21331
4 Bleach (TV) 7.77 21121
5 Naruto (TV) 7.42 18732
6 Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) 8.21 18138
7 Elfen Lied (TV) 8.15 17148
8 (The) Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (TV) 8.48 15787
9 Spirited Away (movie) 8.92 15626
10 Princess Mononoke (movie) 8.86 15602
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
+7101 Revue Starlight The Movie 8.04 21
+6990 Aria the Benedizione (movie) 7.93 21
+6914 Teasing Master Takagi-san the Movie 7.97 23
+6905 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.96 23
+6815 Pui Pui Molcar (TV) 7.88 23
+6754 INU-OH (movie) 7.74 20
+6490 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury - Prologue (special) 7.68 22
+6427 Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars (movie) 7.67 23
+6388 Jyoshikousei no Koshitsuki (OAV) 7.59 21
+6321 Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation (movie) 7.68 25
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
-6655 Dragon Ball GT (TV) 5.38 8639
-6625 Hamtaro (TV) 4.64 3813
-6569 Yu-Gi-Oh! (TV 1/1998) 5.32 4772
-6548 Pokémon (TV) 5.51 7182
-6443 Beyblade (TV) 4.29 2480
-6437 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.73 2617
-6376 Final Fantasy: Unlimited (TV) 5.03 2500
-6320 X (movie) 5.56 3568
-6283 Pilot Candidate (TV) 5.37 2549
-6273 Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (movie 11) 5.41 2619
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) 4.28 ±4.412 140
2 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Chapter 7: Soshite Kan wa Iku (movie) 7.96 ±4.074 14
3 Chargeman Ken! (TV) 5.60 ±3.587 23
4 Bondage Game (OAV) 5.47 ±3.443 84
5 Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi (TV) 7.45 ±3.371 18
6 Apocalypse Zero (OAV) 4.27 ±3.356 192
7 Vixens (OAV) 5.79 ±3.339 33
8 Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (OAV 2) 7.34 ±3.292 152
9 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (TV) 4.73 ±3.227 892
10 Garzey's Wing (OAV) 4.07 ±3.193 141
Only includes titles with at least 14 votes. The rating column contains the baysesian rating ± the standard deviation, with the order of the titles being determined by the standard deviation.