Flooding Bayesian rating creates values out of range

Question

I\'m trying to apply the Bayesian rating formula, but if I rate 1 out of 5 thousand of hundreds, the final rating is greater than 5.

For example, a given item has no vot

Answer 1

You need to divide by total_votes rather than total_items when calculating avg_rating.

I made the changes and got something that behaves much better here.

http://codepad.org/gSdrUhZ2