Film · 2005 · Films · 2000s
Coach Carter
Scored from 189 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Based on a true story, a high school basketball coach in Richmond, California takes over a struggling team and imposes a strict contract demanding academic performance alongside athletic excellence. When his players fail to meet their grade requirements, he locks the gym and forfeits games mid-winning-streak, sparking community outrage and a debate about the role of education in athletics.
Released in 2005, Coach Carter is a biography, drama and sport film.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 8,926 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 189 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 199 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Coach Carter lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 189.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
