Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20160825030830/@comment-29314741-20160828150033

Right now, the main problem with using the YouTube VIEWS as a gauge of who might win this year is that the acts from before the Olympics have had their videos posted for a lot longer tthan those from after the Olympics. Naturally, the numbers are higher for them.

The LIKES are a somewhat better indicator, but they're not comletely reliable either.

Also, as the field narrows, people might start voting more strategically, instead of voting for multiple acts. I think that for the acts where the numbers are really high or really low, they work the best. It's the acts in the middle that it's harder to predict.

I posted the YouTube stats for last weeks show in the Stats thread. Go have a look.