The statistical analysis of a highly imperfect system is back. For the last four years we’ve published The Consensus, a statistical analysis of combining all the various top 25/top 10/etc. lists from various cigar media outlets and placing it into one big list to determine who could be best crowned the winner of the winners. Well, that’s at least the story this year. In previous years, there has actually been a decent consensus after combing all these lists. For 2014? Not so much, at least as far as any one particular cigar is concerned. The rules and procedure for the list were relatively similar with a few tweaks. First, only 30 nominations per list were accepted this year, meaning cigars were scored from 30 points downwards. Secondly, and much more importantly, this year publications were limited to a total point value of 465, the maximum points that could be awarded from any one list. So, publications with multiple authors who each published their own list saw the points divided amongst the number of lists. Qualifications for a list to be considered: Any list created by a media member, published on a media website, is eligible so long as that author/publication has ...
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