Let's laugh just a bit. RPGWatch GOTY Best RPG list.

[Digital Goat]

drova lol.

 

[Kev Inkline]

I use my rank system because it's a) much easier to program with SQL and b) I want to see which games have the first, second, .... nth best score.

If you like a sport-race placement system more than nothing is wrong with that - do it in the RPG Codex vote.

Then, instead of awarding the "game" in the first place, you should award the "set" in the first place that, fortunately, involves just one game.

I have exactly done that: For eample in the most promising RPG vote Gothic 1 Remake and Avowed have the same voting score of 76 and the same rank 2. Both are listed as Runner Up.

Wikipedia - Dense Ranking

Sequential/Dense ranking ("1223" ranking)​

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In dense ranking, items that compare equally receive the same ranking number, and the next items receive the immediately following ranking number. Equivalently, each item's ranking number is 1 plus the number of items ranked above it that are distinct with respect to the ranking order.

Thus if A ranks ahead of B and C (which compare equal) which are both ranked ahead of D, then A gets ranking number 1 ("first"), B gets ranking number 2 ("joint second"), C also gets ranking number 2 ("joint second") and D gets ranking number 3 ("Third").

This method is called "Sequential" by IBM SPSS[5] and "dense" by the R programming language[7] in their methods to handle ties.

But let's discuss the games more than the voting/ranking system.

No, voting systems are more interesting than these games. When you assign a score to each game, say 3, 2, 1 on the descending order of your preference, you're essentially using a Borda count, which has certain favorable properties, but also a few caveats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borda_count