Quote Originally Posted by pbmax View Post
The award for Best Picture is a good example of using some mathematical modeling to get a better result.

It used to be (unsure of date of cutoff) that the winner was the highest vote total, no matter whether it was plurality or majority.

They change it to instant runoff and got much better results in years where opinion is very divided.

Changed in 2009.
I'm 0/8 in seeing the top 8 movies!