The score distributions are different. For some species the minimum score is zero or close to zero, for others (like bears and wolves) it's much higher - the minimum score is 60% of the maximum score already, thus leading to a different score distribution. For those species, 90% of the highest possible score is usually not a trophy, but rather 95% or higher.Nathan112244 wrote:I go by the leaderboards, some animals are weird with scoring.
Others, like reindeer or whitetail as you said, have a distribution that seems to be asymptotic on the higher end, so that there can be very high scores (700+ for reindeer, 200+ for whitetail), but you only see a handful of those each season. For those species, 85% of the highest possible score might already be a trophy.
That's where experience is important. If someone plays this game long enough, he starts to get an idea what makes a trophy. But even with 1000+ hours in this game, I still have to look up the leaderboards of the newer species sometimes to be honest.