The Vote Heatmap Now Works Across All Your Leagues

The Vote Heatmap is one of those charts that tends to end conversations at parties. Every player is a row, every submitter a column, coloured by how many points they've given each other across the whole league. Bright cells are obvious. The dark ones are where the interesting discussions start.

It's always been available on individual leagues. Now it's on the combined leagues view too.

Why combining matters

A single league is a snapshot. Twenty rounds, give or take, with whatever mood the group happened to be in at the time. Voting patterns can look significant within one league but turn out to be noise — a few rounds where one person happened to like what another person was submitting.

The combined view pools data across multiple leagues. If someone consistently rates another player's picks highly across two or three separate leagues and several years, that's not a coincidence. The pattern was always there; the single-league view just didn't have enough data to show it clearly.

Long-running groups especially

Groups that have been playing Music League for a long time often spin up new leagues when an old one wraps up, or run themed side leagues alongside the main one. The voting dynamics carry over — the same taste affinities, the same quiet rivalries — even when the league technically resets. The combined heatmap shows the underlying structure that persists across all of it.

If your group has three or four completed leagues and you've never looked at the combined heatmap, it's worth doing. Some patterns are genuinely surprising once you have the full picture.

Raw and normalised views

Like the single-league heatmap, the combined version has both raw and normalised modes. The raw view shows total points exchanged across all leagues. The normalised view adjusts for how generous each voter tends to be, so a high score from a notoriously stingy voter registers as more significant than the same number from someone who gives points to everyone.

The normalised view is usually more honest. Raw totals in a combined view can be dominated by how many rounds someone participated in rather than how they actually voted.

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The combined heatmap is a premium feature. Upload your leagues and merge them in the combined view to see how the patterns stack up.