looks like the original complete list of the results did not get attached to this thread
here is a snippet of the list. what i am trying to demonstrate, is the difference in scoring and ultimately, sorting - and the breadth of documents (a few hundred) between the two documents of interest (9030 and 90302) thank you, itemNo, score, rankNo, partCnt [9030 ],12.014701,10353,1 [9030 ],12.014701,37,1 [9030 ],12.014701,1,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,167 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [9030 ],12.014701,0,1 [PC-9030 ],7.509188,0,169 [58-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-1R ],7.509188,0,1 [903028-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [903139-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [903091-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [903099-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [903153-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [031-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [308-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6010 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6010 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6006 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6008 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6008 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6001 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6003 ],7.509188,0,1 [9030-6006 ],7.509188,0,1 [208568-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [79-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [33-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 [M-9030 ],7.509188,0,1 ... a few hundred more ... [LGQ9030PQ1 ],0.41475832,0,150 [LEQ9030PQ0 ],0.41475832,0,124 [LEQ9030PQ1 ],0.41475832,0,123 [CWE9030BCE ],0.41475832,0,115 [PJDS9030Z ],0.29327843,0,1 [8A-CT9-030-010 ],0.29327843,0,1 [RDT9030A ],0.29327843,0,1 [PJDG9030Z ],0.29327843,0,1 [90302 ],0.20737916,6849,1 ~ -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/need-help-understanding-an-issue-with-scoring-tp4002897p4002922.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.