Film · 2008 · Films · 2000s
Semi-Pro
Scored from 133 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
In 1976, Jackie Moon, the player-coach-owner of the Flint Tropics, an ABA basketball team, scrambles to keep his squad afloat after learning that only the league's top four teams will be absorbed into the NBA. With the help of a washed-up veteran and outlandish promotional stunts, Jackie pushes his ragtag team to chase respectability before the merger leaves them behind.
Semi-Pro (2008) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and sport genres.
The calibrated figure is built from 133 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 134 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 10,184 of whom clear the calibration test. 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 Semi-Pro 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 133.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
