TV Mini Series · 2020 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
The English Game
Scored from 122 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
A six-part historical drama set in 1879 England that dramatizes the origins of modern association football, focusing on the clash between gentleman amateurs of the Old Etonians and working-class players from Darwen and Blackburn. It centers on Scottish star Fergus Suter, one of the sport's first professionals, and Old Etonian captain Arthur Kinnaird as football transforms from an elite pastime into the people's game.
The English Game (2020) is a miniseries IMDb files under the drama, history and sport genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,093 2020s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. 122 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 130 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 19 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately.
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 The English Game 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 TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 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 122.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
