# What does the "Best Public Score" value represent?

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-does-the-best-public-score-value-represent/2825>\
**Category:** Warm Up: Predict Blood Donations\
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-does-the-best-public-score-value-represent/2825 "2018-10-23T19:40:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![tarahaddadin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@tarahaddadin](https://community.drivendata.org/u/tarahaddadin)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-does-the-best-public-score-value-represent/2825/1 "2018-10-23T19:40:23Z")

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If I got a Best Public Score of 1.08, what does this mean?

What does this number correspond to?

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**Author:** ![dpcarballo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@dpcarballo](https://community.drivendata.org/u/dpcarballo)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-does-the-best-public-score-value-represent/2825/2 "2018-11-19T10:24:42Z")

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I think that is the best of the scores from all of your submissions

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**Author:** ![SaraLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SaraLS](https://community.drivendata.org/u/SaraLS)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-does-the-best-public-score-value-represent/2825/3 "2018-12-08T14:01:01Z")

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It is the best of your submissions. However, I had a similar question about how it actually relates to the log loss metric. No one has answered it yet.