Okay, I used this method with a few modifications to generate my top 100. I'm pretty happy with the results. The top 9 especially are exactly how I would rank them without using any numbers.
Modifications:
* for Stan Brakhage (112 films seen), I averaged the top 30 * for directors with 9 to 11 films seen, I averaged the top 8 * I removed certain directors that I would never consider among my top 100, no matter what the numbers say * for certain directors, I removed the lowest film from the average when I considered it to be an anomalous stinker in their career * I included directors with 3 or 4 films seen, but deducted 10% from the average * minor adjustments to rank directors with the same score * selective trimming at the bottom of the list
Ingmar Bergman - 95.20 Satyajit Ray - 94.60 Akira Kurosawa - 93.00 Terrence Malick - 91.60 Alfred Hitchcock - 91.10 Ming-liang Tsai - 90.88 Luis Buñuel - 90.30 Werner Herzog - 89.80 Woody Allen - 88.90 François Truffaut - 88.50 Martin Scorsese - 88.40 Kenji Mizoguchi - 88.20 Krzysztof Kieslowski - 87.20 Fritz Lang - 86.90 Pedro Almodóvar - 86.63 Michael Winterbottom - 86.00 Emir Kusturica - 85.50 Peter Greenaway - 85.31 Joel and Ethan Coen - 85.30 Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 85.25 Aki Kaurismäki - 85.20 Masaki Kobayashi - 85.17 Béla Tarr - 85.13 David Lean - 85.12 Stan Brakhage - 84.80 DavidLynch - 84.71 Robert Bresson - 84.70 Stanley Kubrick - 84.60 Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne - 84.60 Agnès Varda - 84.50 Alain Resnais - 84.25 Steven Soderbergh - 83.90 Orson Welles - 83.81 Anthony Mann - 83.80 Yasujiro Ozu - 83.79 Elia Kazan - 83.50 Hayao Miyazaki - 83.38 John Sturges - 83.20 Quentin Tarantino - 83.10 Roman Polanski - 83.00 James Lee - 82.80 Michelangelo Antonioni - 82.63 Allan King - 82.60 Jules Dassin - 82.40 Ritwik Ghatak - 82.38 Abbas Kiarostami - 82.38 Robert Siodmak - 82.25 Frank Capra - 82.25 Ermanno Olmi - 82.00 F.W. Murnau - 81.71 Anh Hung Tran - 81.67 Kon Ichikawa - 81.60 Buster Keaton - 81.25 Michael Powell - 81.20 Billy Wilder - 81.10 Louis Malle - 80.90 Douglas Sirk - 80.63 Guy Maddin - 80.57 Yimou Zhang - 80.50 Jean Renoir - 80.40 Lars von Trier - 80.38 Federico Fellini - 80.30 Wes Anderson - 80.25 Andrei Tarkovsky - 80.17 Mike Leigh - 80.00 Michael Curtiz - 79.88 Nobuhiko Obayashi - 79.75 Max Ophüls - 79.75 Wen Jiang - 79.65 Milos Forman - 79.52 Josef von Sternberg - 79.51 Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 79.50 Jacques Demy - 79.40 Jacques Tati - 79.33 Francis Ford Coppola - 79.25 Roy Andersson - 79.20 John Huston - 79.10 Mohsen Makhmalbaf - 79.10 Shohei Imamura - 79.00 John Cassavetes - 78.88 Marco Ferreri - 78.88 Howard Hawks - 78.81 William Wyler - 78.80 Nicholas Ray - 78.75 Phil Karlson - 78.57 Kar Wai Wong - 78.50 John Brahm - 78.40 Gus Van Sant - 78.38 Sergio Leone - 78.33 Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - 78.33 Hiroshi Teshigahara - 78.13 Carl Theodor Dreyer - 78.00 Eric Rohmer - 77.90 Anthony Asquith - 77.83 Jean-Pierre Melville - 77.63 Djibril Diop Mambéty - 77.40 Zhang Ke Jia - 77.21 Michael Haneke - 77.13 Carlos Saura - 76.75 Victor Erice - 76.20