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Sporting News - Review Scores & Disparity | ReviewDisparity

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Sporting News

Total Reviews

Journalists

75.3

Average Score

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity

-10.0

Metacritic Disparity

+23.1

Combined Disparity

+22.6

Average of both sources

Scoring Pattern

Lowest Score

100

Highest Score

16.3

Score Spread(variance in their own scores)

Review Timing

10 early (31%)21 launch window (66%)1 late (3%)

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Review summary

Updated Sep 9, 2019

Based on 32 scored reviews, Sporting News gives games an average score of 75.3/100. Sporting News scores games 10.0 points lower than Steam users and 23.1 points higher than Metacritic users.

How these comparisons are calculated

Sources behind this summary(5 recent of 32)+

NBA 2K20byBryan Wiedey
Sep 9, 2019Launch window
80/100View review
Metacritic 17/100 · +63.0 pts
Madden NFL 20byBryan Wiedey
Jul 30, 2019Early review
80/100View review
Metacritic 15/100 · +65.0 pts
Pro Evolution Soccer 2019byBryan Wiedey
Sep 25, 2018Launch window
80/100View review
Metacritic 65/100 · +15.0 pts
FIFA 19byBryan Wiedey
Sep 25, 2018Launch window
90/100View review
Metacritic 29/100 · +61.0 pts
NBA Live 19byBryan Wiedey
Sep 14, 2018Launch window
60/100View review
Metacritic 65/100 · -5.0 pts