2026-02-25
5 Things Music League Stats Reveal About Your Group's Voting
You've been playing Music League for months. You think you know who votes for who. You're probably wrong.
The export ZIP that Music League lets you download contains every vote ever cast in your league. Here's what it actually shows.
1. Who your real superfan is
Your best friend votes for your picks — or so you assume. But raw vote totals are misleading. If someone joined halfway through the league, or gives out points sparingly, they might be your biggest supporter in ways the leaderboard doesn't capture. The Superfan & Nemesis analysis adjusts for participation length and general generosity, so you get the person who's consistently rated your music higher than anyone else, in context.
In most groups, it's not who you'd guess.
2. The heatmap
The Vote Heatmap is the one chart that reliably starts arguments. Every voter is a row, every submitter a column, coloured by total points given. Bright cells are obvious — that's a fan. The dark cells are more interesting.
Cliques show up. Voting blocs emerge. Someone who's seemed perfectly pleasant turns out to have given the same three people low scores for twelve rounds running.
3. Some players are way more generous than others
The Generosity chart ranks players by average points given per round. The spread is usually wider than people expect — the most generous voter can give out twice the total points of the most withholding one. High scores from a generous voter mean less than the same score from someone who rarely hands them out. Raw vote totals don't account for this at all.
4. Taste twins are rarely who you think
The Taste Twins analysis finds the two players whose voting patterns overlap most closely. They're the people who independently arrive at the same judgments round after round, without coordinating.
The two people who argue most about music in real life are often the closest taste twins. The algorithm doesn't care about your opinions of each other — only the numbers.
5. Reciprocity predicts drama
The Vote Reciprocity chart shows whether players tend to give back points to people who give them points. High mutual reciprocity could be genuine shared taste, or it could be two people quietly propping each other up. Low reciprocity — one player consistently rating another highly without it being returned — is where the post-round discussions get heated.
All of this comes from the same export ZIP that Music League already lets you download. Upload yours and see what your group has actually been up to.