Ranking Score Explained

Kia ora, thanks for your interest in how we calculate an experience's ranking score. It's at the core of Rankers so I'm pleased you're curious.

The ranking score percentage is used to compare and sort experiences in ranking tables. It is not necessarily a direct measurement of the quality of a particular experience as rated by its customers. I've found it a useful tool to allow me to find the best experiences with confidence. But I've also found it important to read the customer reviews before making any final judgements!

We calculate an experience's ranking score using a multi-factor data model instead of a raw data average (mean). This model takes into account several important questions. For instance - is there a trusted body of reviews? What is the age of a review and is the review from a credible source?

Below you'll find details around some of the important factors that went into calculating the ranking score for Rings Scenic Tours.

If you have any questions or comments about our ranking score calculation please get in touch at info@rankers.co.nz. We don't believe this is perfect or complete so we're always interested in ways we might make improvements.

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Rings Scenic Tours

Valid Reviews

364 Valid Reviews

The Rings Scenic Tours experience has a total of 364 valid reviews. There are no invalid reviews that are excluded from the calculation. Reviews can be excluded only when a reviewer is not verified or after an investigation by our team determines the reviewer is not genuine.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 364 valid reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 83
23%
9/10 83
23%
8/10 92
25%
7/10 62
17%
6/10 22
6%
5/10 10
3%
4/10 7
2%
3/10 3
1%
2/10 1
0%
1/10 1
0%

81.57% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Rings Scenic Tours valid reviews is 81.57% and is based on 364 valid reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here as a comparison to the weighted average.

Face-to-Face Reviews

339 Face-to-Face Reviews

The Rankers team meets with travellers while they’re in New Zealand and conducts face-to-face surveys. These reviews, in our opinion, are the most trusted in the industry and represent a critical control sample. To our knowledge, we are the only travel review website in the world that has gone to this extent.

More about face-to-face reviews

Within the 364 valid reviews, the experience has 339 face-to-face reviews collected during interviews by our team.

Below is the distribution of ratings for the 339 face-to-face reviews:

Rating Count Percentage
10/10 76
22%
9/10 75
22%
8/10 92
27%
7/10 57
17%
6/10 21
6%
5/10 9
3%
4/10 6
2%
3/10 2
1%
2/10 0
0%
1/10 1
0%

81.77% Average

The raw data average (mean) for all the Rings Scenic Tours face-to-face reviews is 81.77% and is based on 339 face-to-face reviews. This value is not used to calculate the ranking score and it only provided here for comparison purposes.

Weighted Average

83.12%

Rankers calculates a weighted mean as a base average on which we can improve. Individual review's ratings are given a weight based on several factors. The weight of a review determines the overall impact it'll have on the final weighted average.

Recent reviews have more weight as they are more relevant and reflect the experience as it currently operates. Over time reviews become less relevant and loose their impact on the ranking score.

Low rating reviews carry slightly less weight. This dampens the effect of very low ratings for every experience across the board. This is especially important when the experience has few reviews overall and a single negative rating can grossly mischaracterise an experience. Consistent poor reviews will still result in the experience receiving a comparitively low ranking score.

Credible sources provide reviews that can be trusted. If we have verified a reviewer is genuine via a face-to-face meeting then the review carries additional weight.

Reviewer Rating Age Relative Weight
Sarah Killury 5/10 2700 days 79%
Rado Hank 10/10 2787 days 100%
Eva Cordemeyer 9/10 2789 days 99%
Janneke van Krieken 8/10 2791 days 98%
Jennie Tollerton 10/10 2793 days 100%
Anis Quentin 10/10 2795 days 99%
Phil Baker 9/10 2796 days 98%
Jeny Smolders 9/10 2799 days 98%
Linnea Sahlberg 10/10 2806 days 99%
Steve Jackson 8/10 3044 days 81%
Christoph Grubmair 9/10 3051 days 81%
Robin 7/10 3052 days 76%
Andy 6/10 3053 days 70%
Philip Grant 7/10 3055 days 76%
Sam Wolfe 7/10 3056 days 76%
Pierre 7/10 3066 days 75%
Sophie Pettler 8/10 3068 days 80%
Auba Mateos 10/10 3073 days 81%
Charlotte 10/10 3073 days 81%
Francesca Scott 9/10 3073 days 80%
Anders Frank 7/10 3075 days 75%
Benedikt Lorenz 9/10 3077 days 80%
Simon Briens 7/10 3078 days 75%
Kathrin Herbst 8/10 3079 days 79%
Chaulet 10/10 3084 days 80%
Kristina Nunoz 9/10 3085 days 79%
Riccardo 8/10 3086 days 78%
Theerada Wongkaew 10/10 3106 days 79%
Joonas Lehtomaki 9/10 3111 days 78%
Jessica Freeland 8/10 3113 days 77%
Laura David 9/10 3114 days 77%
Gretha 9/10 3116 days 77%
Dries 9/10 3116 days 77%
Bjorn Nielsen 10/10 3116 days 78%
Stephan Bruhwile 8/10 3116 days 76%
Micha Kuster 9/10 3117 days 77%
Alna 10/10 3122 days 78%
Patricia 10/10 3123 days 78%
Alex 10/10 3123 days 78%
Jennie Holland 10/10 3128 days 77%
Jasmine Rogers 8/10 3129 days 76%
Alicia Speisekorn-Gil 8/10 3132 days 75%
Alonso 8/10 3135 days 75%
Sophie 9/10 3136 days 76%
Jannika Cao 6/10 3138 days 65%
Rose Guillaume 6/10 3138 days 65%
Pierre Landenne 8/10 3138 days 75%
Evelyn Rloeh 10/10 3139 days 77%
John Edwards 10/10 3140 days 76%
Alice Frater 9/10 3140 days 76%
Rik van der Niet 8/10 3141 days 75%
Sina Schmidt 8/10 3150 days 74%
Simeon Manz 10/10 3150 days 76%
Charlotte Molesworth 8/10 3152 days 74%
Sam Staines 8/10 3154 days 74%
Christine 5/10 3155 days 56%
Jessica Nasstrom 7/10 3156 days 70%
Megan 8/10 3159 days 74%
Laura Leoekloek 8/10 3159 days 74%
Gordon Todan 10/10 3164 days 75%
Niels 9/10 3165 days 74%
MARK CURPHEY 10/10 3167 days 75%
Sam Taylor 8/10 3168 days 73%
Dave Ellis 8/10 3168 days 73%
Anne 8/10 3174 days 73%
Catherine Pigeon 9/10 3280 days 66%
Jana Ebelina 8/10 3355 days 61%
Celina 7/10 3355 days 57%
Vanuxem 7/10 3372 days 56%
Lukas Boller 7/10 3374 days 56%
Thomas Michel 8/10 3374 days 59%
Simon Schatz 9/10 3377 days 60%
Lisa Haedrich 9/10 3378 days 60%
Thomas Le Buzulier 7/10 3381 days 56%
Emmanuel Roux 7/10 3383 days 56%
Bas Marinus 6/10 3386 days 51%
Liam King 8/10 3387 days 59%
Caroline Shaw 10/10 3387 days 60%
Sabrina Schneider 10/10 3388 days 60%
Christian Krause 9/10 3389 days 59%
Sam Fenton-Elston 8/10 3389 days 59%
Karin Karlsson 9/10 3390 days 59%
Anika D 7/10 3392 days 55%
Stephanie Still 10/10 3392 days 60%
Chloe and Guillame 8/10 3392 days 58%
Hana Rachfalik 10/10 3393 days 60%
Saskia Peek 7/10 3395 days 55%
Erika Tarant 8/10 3395 days 58%
Julie Duvert 10/10 3396 days 59%
Dan Ramsl 4/10 3396 days 37%
Lucy Mulvin 9/10 3397 days 59%
Fine Kochling 10/10 3399 days 59%
Hannes 9/10 3400 days 58%
Samuel Lucht 9/10 3400 days 58%
Laura Moore 10/10 3401 days 59%
Nathan Raymond 7/10 3402 days 54%
Arthur Portolleau 8/10 3403 days 58%
Ellie Doughty 5/10 3404 days 43%
Nancy Logan 7/10 3406 days 54%
Isabella Sinnesbickle 10/10 3407 days 59%
Verena Konetzhi 7/10 3408 days 54%
Severin Knegsch 6/10 3409 days 49%
Anna Jungclaus 9/10 3410 days 58%
Nanna Torp 8/10 3412 days 57%
Lewis Whittle 8/10 3412 days 57%
Lukas Seager 8/10 3412 days 57%
Lea Behnem 10/10 3414 days 58%
Ben and Pauline 9/10 3414 days 58%
Marcus 8/10 3416 days 57%
Jesper 8/10 3416 days 57%
Johannes Koch 10/10 3416 days 58%
Ann-Kathrin 9/10 3419 days 57%
Dawn Howard 8/10 3419 days 57%
Amit Bass 10/10 3420 days 58%
Laura Schafer 10/10 3420 days 58%
Robin Lakner 4/10 3420 days 36%
Sebastian 10/10 3421 days 58%
Jaquein Bucholz 10/10 3421 days 58%
Ben Schieber 4/10 3421 days 35%
Annika Weber 10/10 3421 days 58%
Antoine Boudin 7/10 3421 days 53%
Cariotta Kemper 9/10 3421 days 57%
Richard May 6/10 3422 days 49%
Max Butteli 6/10 3423 days 49%
Mijke Boesten 8/10 3427 days 56%
Pierre Alexandre 7/10 3428 days 53%
Charlotte Schleicher 10/10 3430 days 57%
Briony 9/10 3431 days 56%
Kirsten Gehrenbeck 9/10 3431 days 56%
Felix Sternke 6/10 3432 days 48%
Gerrit 8/10 3432 days 56%
Sascha Daub 8/10 3432 days 56%
Melanie Kronbichler 10/10 3432 days 57%
Henry Wichler 9/10 3432 days 56%
Richard Starkeq 7/10 3432 days 53%
Ruven Rintelmann 6/10 3432 days 48%
Katlin Pollinger 7/10 3433 days 52%
Taylor Fabricius 10/10 3434 days 57%
Sophia Harnisch 10/10 3434 days 57%
Brianna Burd 8/10 3435 days 55%
Markus Wabing 6/10 3436 days 48%
Uschi Pongratz 10/10 3436 days 57%
Jessica Ruhland 8/10 3436 days 55%
David Soukal 9/10 3437 days 56%
Olivia Aliprandi 8/10 3438 days 55%
Jacquiline Bukmann 7/10 3439 days 52%
Isabelle 10/10 3440 days 56%
M J 9/10 3441 days 56%
Susi 9/10 3442 days 56%
Maxima Buisan 7/10 3443 days 52%
Franziska Hohmann 8/10 3445 days 55%
Faye Oliver 4/10 3446 days 34%
Alice Melker 7/10 3446 days 52%
Lauren Thompson 8/10 3446 days 55%
Sophie NIemann 10/10 3449 days 56%
Christian Reimund 7/10 3451 days 51%
Nina Kletner 7/10 3452 days 51%
Pekka and Jonna 8/10 3452 days 54%
Fabian Graf 8/10 3452 days 54%
Julia Ebneter 8/10 3454 days 54%
Jenny and Till 7/10 3455 days 51%
Sara and Antoine 7/10 3456 days 51%
Kathanina Jasik 10/10 3456 days 55%
Josephine 8/10 3457 days 54%
Toni Gabby 9/10 3457 days 55%
Luisa and Hannes 7/10 3457 days 51%
Nico 6/10 3458 days 47%
Eline Meijer 8/10 3474 days 53%
Nicola Wiggan 7/10 3475 days 50%
Marc 7/10 3476 days 50%
Linda and Gunther 9/10 3476 days 53%
Malina 8/10 3478 days 53%
Julia Martin 6/10 3478 days 46%
Sebastian Schurchardt 10/10 3479 days 54%
Elodie 8/10 3481 days 52%
Mette and Jesper 10/10 3483 days 54%
Jessica and Leonie 8/10 3489 days 52%
Hannah Fidora 8/10 3489 days 52%
Elizabeth Nash 7/10 3494 days 49%
Selma Krap 9/10 3495 days 52%
Julia Waenninger 7/10 3501 days 48%
Lee Farrington 10/10 3523 days 51%
Sarah Boettcher 4/10 3537 days 30%
Luis . 7/10 3584 days 43%
Johanna Lidel 10/10 3755 days 35%
Amelie Eschenbach 10/10 3755 days 35%
Anna Birzle 10/10 3755 days 35%
Mak Walther 8/10 3757 days 34%
Miriam Burchartz 9/10 3757 days 35%
Celia Nowak 9/10 3801 days 32%
Andrew Simpson 10/10 3802 days 32%
Dominik Rehbaum 7/10 3816 days 29%
Marie Sander 8/10 3816 days 31%
Felix Holm 7/10 3839 days 27%
Sibylle and Nadine 8/10 3849 days 28%
Lukas, Anne and Malte 8/10 3859 days 28%
Hubert Schmid 10/10 3912 days 25%
Ron Clarke 10/10 3919 days 24%
Greg Gilmore 9/10 4095 days 12%
Fiona Hawkins 6/10 4095 days 10%
Lagarde 7/10 4100 days 11%
Julia Schabenberger 8/10 4101 days 12%
Lola 8/10 4101 days 12%
Alisa 9/10 4101 days 12%
Laura 8/10 4101 days 12%
Camille Bellay 5/10 4104 days 8%
Guillaume Yedoux 6/10 4104 days 10%
Catherine Schlachter 6/10 4108 days 9%
Christina Perez 6/10 4108 days 9%
Alex 10/10 4111 days 12%
Becky 9/10 4111 days 11%
Christoph Betten 9/10 4111 days 11%
Leonie Moeller 9/10 4111 days 11%
Herman Holmgist 10/10 4112 days 12%
Laura 9/10 4116 days 11%
Andreas Schindler 9/10 4116 days 11%
Bea Westkam 9/10 4117 days 11%
Julia Moellers 10/10 4117 days 11%
Sam Bruylant 8/10 4118 days 11%
Ines Bruylant 10/10 4119 days 11%
Laura 10/10 4127 days 11%
Christopher Buch Madsen 9/10 4128 days 10%
Laina Black 9/10 4132 days 10%
Ricky White 7/10 4132 days 9%
Eva-Maria Krueger 10/10 4133 days 10%
Hadler 8/10 4134 days 10%
Felicitas 7/10 4134 days 9%
Steffen 10/10 4136 days 10%
Sergey Pronkin 8/10 4136 days 10%
Nina Helmling 10/10 4136 days 10%
Cathrin Wisgiekl 7/10 4137 days 9%
Amanda 10/10 4143 days 9%
Derek 8/10 4143 days 9%
Julie Ledanois 9/10 4144 days 9%
Pierre Gentile 7/10 4144 days 8%
Steven Lotrian 7/10 4147 days 8%
Emeline Brocard 7/10 4147 days 8%
Marvin Koever 8/10 4147 days 9%
Max Meternich 8/10 4147 days 9%
Klaus Petersen 7/10 4151 days 8%
Dana 10/10 4151 days 9%
Rikke Petersen 9/10 4151 days 9%
Toke Frederiksen 8/10 4156 days 8%
Ruth Watkin 9/10 4157 days 8%
Elena Goschia 7/10 4159 days 7%
Matthias Freiling 9/10 4159 days 8%
Philipp Kluseuer 7/10 4159 days 7%
Jesseca Klausch 8/10 4159 days 8%
Johannes 8/10 4160 days 8%
Florian Littmann 9/10 4163 days 8%
Anna 8/10 4163 days 8%
Dan Lawson 7/10 4173 days 7%
Philipp 9/10 4173 days 7%
Sina Sacranie 8/10 4173 days 7%
Benedict Seite 7/10 4175 days 6%
Valerio Penita 6/10 4175 days 5%
Piotr Jurkowski 9/10 4177 days 7%
Roland Beer 8/10 4180 days 7%
Alexia Greasbaum 10/10 4180 days 7%
Petra Kurcova 10/10 4181 days 7%
Magdalene Zech 5/10 4182 days 4%
Marco Newald 5/10 4182 days 4%
Hendrik Schanz 10/10 4185 days 7%
B D 10/10 4192 days 6%
Elin Andersson 8/10 4192 days 6%
Elin Paulssen 10/10 4192 days 6%
Romina Bolz 7/10 4197 days 5%
Jeremy 9/10 4223 days 4%
Brian 9/10 4284 days 0%
Memain 9/10 4464 days 27%
Anton Thisted 8/10 4465 days 27%
Josefine Sjodin 7/10 4465 days 25%
Konza 9/10 4465 days 27%
Katie Fleck 6/10 4465 days 23%
Tim Vennewold 7/10 4485 days 25%
Francois 3/10 4498 days 12%
Stephanie Belanger 1/10 4501 days 8%
Tina 6/10 4504 days 23%
Bjorn Hedmark 10/10 4509 days 28%
Collacott 9/10 4512 days 27%
Dani Wallinger 8/10 4520 days 27%
Lis Bon 7/10 4526 days 25%
Craig Jones 9/10 4557 days 27%
Glyn Ethelston 4/10 4557 days 16%
Jurgen 7/10 4574 days 25%
Brigitte 8/10 4576 days 27%
Kohler 9/10 4577 days 27%
Wouter Trumpie 8/10 4577 days 27%
Roux 10/10 4578 days 28%
Reijenga 6/10 4579 days 23%
tanyap 9/10 4588 days 27%
Gary Brooks 10/10 4588 days 28%
Kristina Mårtensson 9/10 4588 days 27%
Alexander Klein 3/10 4592 days 12%
The Mowbrays 8/10 4598 days 27%
Martina Posch 10/10 4602 days 28%
Oliver German 9/10 4835 days 27%
Jill Homewood 10/10 4856 days 28%
Jaroslav Gajdos 5/10 4866 days 20%
Christian & Julia 10/10 4873 days 28%
Miina Hyuonen 9/10 4874 days 27%
Thomas 10/10 4874 days 28%
Verne Heath 10/10 4877 days 28%
Stefan 8/10 4877 days 27%
Ralf Glaser 7/10 4880 days 25%
Gloria, Rose & An 8/10 4884 days 27%
Anika 9/10 4891 days 27%
Asha 10/10 4923 days 28%
Tobias Forst 9/10 4955 days 27%
Anders Rathleff 9/10 4970 days 27%
Christina 9/10 4971 days 27%
JadesWorld 6/10 4984 days 23%
Patricia French 9/10 5188 days 27%
Chantal Wendel 8/10 5209 days 27%
Guult Ryan 7/10 5215 days 25%
Veronica Warren 7/10 5219 days 25%
Monica 9/10 5225 days 27%
Rachel Kent-Lawton 8/10 5229 days 27%
Anika Jedelsky 8/10 5230 days 27%
Rebecca Stones 8/10 5231 days 27%
Claudio 3/10 5235 days 12%
Faucon 5/10 5244 days 20%
Sebastian Engelke 4/10 5245 days 16%
Olivia Carvill 8/10 5245 days 27%
Marianne Astorp 10/10 5248 days 28%
Sprangers 7/10 5250 days 25%
qofd 9/10 5380 days 27%
ahtom82 2/10 5472 days 9%
heather Cardinal 9/10 5549 days 27%
Wim Van Gastel 8/10 5620 days 27%
Jansen 9/10 5688 days 27%
Tim Beuzeval 9/10 5691 days 27%
Elodie 8/10 5695 days 27%
Lionel Mouesca 9/10 5696 days 27%
neilchelt 7/10 5714 days 25%
suet 8/10 5928 days 27%
monikav 10/10 5928 days 28%
Nick 10/10 5959 days 28%
Rafael 9/10 5964 days 27%
Nanno 8/10 5979 days 27%
Florian 8/10 5985 days 27%
Thamar 7/10 5992 days 25%
Anna 7/10 5995 days 25%
Burkhalter 10/10 5999 days 28%
Lucas 10/10 6000 days 28%
Mark 8/10 6059 days 27%
Zoe Summers 9/10 6140 days 27%
Toby 5/10 6300 days 20%
Therese Axelsson 10/10 6318 days 28%
Anna Cronmalm 10/10 6320 days 28%
Christian Schutte 9/10 6374 days 27%
Gail 8/10 6374 days 27%
Christian Arnot 7/10 6397 days 25%
Anita 5/10 6397 days 20%
Jessica Callen 8/10 6530 days 27%
Millie 8/10 6638 days 27%
Stephanie 9/10 6639 days 27%
Kristine 6/10 6640 days 23%
Mike Shirley 9/10 6656 days 27%
Denise Nick 9/10 6667 days 27%
Austin 10/10 6672 days 28%
Claire 7/10 6672 days 25%
Detlef 8/10 6672 days 27%
Lukas 10/10 6704 days 28%

Adjustments

Several adjustments to the weighted average are added to improve relevancy and credibility. These adjustments apply equally to all experiences that meet the criteria.

Sample Size Adjustment

No Adjustment

A reasonable number of reviews are necessary in order for the average to be credible and for an experience to take a prime position within the ranking tables. As such, experiences with only a few reviews have a moderated score. This does not mean that the experience or the reviews can't be trusted. The Rings Scenic Tours experience has plenty of reviews and does not meet the criteria for any adjustment.

Recent Reviews Adjustment

-2.11% Adjustment

There may be an adjustment if this experience hasn't received any reviews within the last 120 days. However the Rings Scenic Tours experience does not meet the criteria for any adjustment.

In addition, an experience's ranking score may be adjusted for each day there is no new ranking. After 1 day the adjustment comes into effect. The maximum number of days that can be adjusted for is 200 days. Due to the seasonal nature of many businesses, this adjustment is applied dynamically throughout the year.

The Rings Scenic Tours experience has been adjusted for 200 days. Adjustments are according to the following table.

Days Adjustment
197 -2.07%
198 -2.08%
199 -2.10%
200 -2.11%
201 -2.12%
202 -2.13%
203 -2.14%

Balancing Adjustment

2.73% Adjustment

Every experience's review score is adjusted to balance out the disproportional number of negative reviews that are contributed.

You won't be surprised to learn that disgruntled customers are more likely to leave a review than happy ones. They are motivated to share their experience and warn others. We consider this a good thing and it's why reading the reviews is important. However we've learned it can misrepresent the experience in a more overall sense.

We apply a balancing adjustment to counteract this effect and ensure the ranking score is a more fair representation of the experience. This adjustment is applied equally to all experiences.

Final Ranking Score

84%

The final ranking score once any adjustments, ratings, and rounding has been applied. This value is recalculated each day and a short rolling average is applied. Therefore it may not be precisely accurate based on the other values presented.