TV Series · 2022 · TV Series · 2020s
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
Scored from 144 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2020s (3,070 peers).
Summary
This HBO drama series chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports' most revered and dominant dynasties. Beginning with Jerry Buss's purchase of the team and the drafting of Magic Johnson in 1979, the show charts the rise of the 'Showtime' era through the perspectives of players, coaches, and executives navigating ambition, ego, and the cultural spectacle of Lakers basketball.
Released in 2022, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is a biography, drama and sport television series.
3,069 other television series from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 144 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 152 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 69 of whom clear the calibration test.
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 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty 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 Series · 2020s (3,070 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 144.
Cohort: TV Series · 2020s
