# Wrong Scoring using match query on Sense **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 1, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-scoring-using-match-query-on-sense/18411 "2014-07-01T08:43:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rayman\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3bc359/32.png) [@rayman\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rayman_2)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-scoring-using-match-query-on-sense/18411/1 "2014-07-01T08:43:10Z")
I am trying to exercise the following example using Sense : [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/match-query.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/match-query.html). However when I ran GET /my\_index/my\_type/\_search { "query": { "match": { "title": "QUICK!" } } } I got wrong scoring. I expect to see doc with is 3. But doc with id got higher score. any idea?: { "took": 2, "timed\_out": false, "\_shards": { "total": 1, "successful": 1, "failed": 0 }, "hits": { "total": 3, "max\_score": 0.5, "hits": [ { "\_index": "my\_index", "\_type": "my\_type", "\_id": "1", "\_score": 0.5, "\_source": { "title": "The quick brown fox" } }, { "\_index": "my\_index", "\_type": "my\_type", "\_id": "3", "\_score": 0.44194174, "\_source": { "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the quick dog" } }, { "\_index": "my\_index", "\_type": "my\_type", "\_id": "2", "\_score": 0.3125, "\_source": { "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" } } ] } } Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/38002b2d-6d70-4a20-9820-7814c37e8aea%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/38002b2d-6d70-4a20-9820-7814c37e8aea%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-scoring-using-match-query-on-sense/18411/2 "2014-07-02T17:09:08Z")
If you enable explanations, you would see that length normalization is scoring the document with the shorter field higher than the document with a term frequency of 2. The fieldNorm is incredibly lossy since it uses only 1 byte, so there must be some inconsistencies between the example and your test case. The example has a fieldNorm of 0.375, while it is 0.3125 in your case (and mine as well). The example might not have deleted all the documents in the index before the test. Cheers, Ivan On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:43 AM, rayman [idan.frid@gmail.com](mailto:idan.frid@gmail.com) wrote: > I am trying to exercise the following example using Sense : > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/match-query.html) > . > > However when I ran > > GET /my\_index/my\_type/\_search > { > "query": { > "match": { > "title": "QUICK!" > } > } > } > > I got wrong scoring. I expect to see doc with is 3. But doc with id got > higher score. any idea?: > > { > "took": 2, > "timed\_out": false, > "\_shards": { > "total": 1, > "successful": 1, > "failed": 0 > }, > "hits": { > "total": 3, > "max\_score": 0.5, > "hits": [ > { > "\_index": "my\_index", > "\_type": "my\_type", > "\_id": "1", > "\_score": 0.5, > "\_source": { > "title": "The quick brown fox" > } > }, > { > "\_index": "my\_index", > "\_type": "my\_type", > "\_id": "3", > "\_score": 0.44194174, > "\_source": { > "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the quick dog" > } > }, > { > "\_index": "my\_index", > "\_type": "my\_type", > "\_id": "2", > "\_score": 0.3125, > "\_source": { > "title": "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" > } > } > ] > } > } > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/38002b2d-6d70-4a20-9820-7814c37e8aea%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/38002b2d-6d70-4a20-9820-7814c37e8aea%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/38002b2d-6d70-4a20-9820-7814c37e8aea%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/38002b2d-6d70-4a20-9820-7814c37e8aea%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQAdM%3Dx6WfpbGVLRqiuVkF7QLXq0hZgCpqSSnc8A8nqHGQ%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQAdM%3Dx6WfpbGVLRqiuVkF7QLXq0hZgCpqSSnc8A8nqHGQ%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-scoring-using-match-query-on-sense/18411/3 "2017-07-06T01:18:19Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:18am UTC