[marrone12]

This article gives a handy method to account for exactly what you're asking https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

[spywaregorilla]

I find the conclusion to a really silly solution if you need to explain it to anyone. My preferred answer is a basyesian average. That is, everything gets n votes for the average score by default, and you just sort by the average rating.

[ducharmdev]

That's really cool, thanks for sharing! I particularly appreciate the SQL snippet.