I really don't care much about the topic, as I've never been much of a ranker/rater. But you are speaking my language, and I really enjoyed this post and your approach to the informational content of ratings. Honestly, I'd be stoked about it if you were discussing ketchup ratings.

I don't know how much access you have to the ratings data, but would be fun to take a look at the entropy distribution and select an entropy threshold to filter the ratings and derive a "high-information" rating for each show. Nothing quite as fun as nerdery (to this particular nerd), other than, of course, a Phish show.