there are quite a view tens around, but those have 1 vote

if you only take shots with 10 or more votes it looks like this:
>> Shot.visible.select{|s| s.votes.size >= 10}.sort{|a,b| b.rating <=> a.rating}[0,10].map{|m| [m.id, m.rating*2]}
=> [
[19794, 9.409090909091],
[18968, 9.25],
[158, 9.25],
[10545, 9.1538461538462],
[146, 9.1],
[63, 9.0833333333334],
[1507, 9.076923076923],
[10, 9.0384615384616],
[19480, 9.0],
[3210, 9.0]]

first column is the shot id, second one is the rating ;)

(and also showing of some nice ruby code ;) )

158 is very cool.. 10545 as well... 3210 is good also.. but there are a lot of shots that i don't agree with being in the top ranked... you guys agree?? wich one's should be? i really like 537, 1050 (bq), 22554, 22239, 22610 and 23820 for example.. some of those are better then some of the top ones!

one of mine ( http://whatthemovie.com/shot/63 ) is in there but personally, of the ones i posted i think http://whatthemovie.com/shot/3 is the best i posted ;)

agree.. the photograph shot wasn't bad, or too hard.. but still... i've seen much greater ones (no offence..) and the tennis one... well.. i think my taste is a little different.. these are my 2 personel favs.. http://whatthemovie.com/shot/27328 , just got through... and http://whatthemovie.com/shot/25516 (easy as well.. but hey...) and oh yeah.. i like sci-fi ( http://whatthemovie.com/shot/23661 )

i don't know how your rating system works... but maybe stealing and modifying imdb's formula is an idea?! (criminal thought...)

IMDB uses this famous formula:

weighted rank (WR) = (v (v+m)) R + (m (v+m)) C

where:
R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
m = minimum votes required to be listed in the Top 250 (currently 1250)
C = the mean vote across the whole report (currently 6.8)