How Archipelago Island Scores Are Calculated

Each island score on the Archipelago reflects how strongly your whole team leans toward that archetype, based on everyone's full scores across all 28 archetypes.

This is the key thing to understand: each person receives a continuous score across all 28 archetypes, not just the three that appear as their Top 3. The Top 3 on an individual profile show that person's strongest matches. The island and group scores on the Archipelago, by contrast, are built from everyone's full scores across all 28 archetypes, not just their Top 3s.

Because of this, an island can score highly even when no one has that archetype in their Top 3. If there is a collective lean toward those traits across the team, the island reflects it. The island score shows the group's overall pull toward those traits, rather than the number of people who have them as a Top 3 match.

This is especially noticeable on smaller teams, where each person's full score profile has a larger impact on the group average.

In short: the Top 3 view answers "What does each person lead with?" while the Archipelago answers "Where does the group collectively lean across all 28 archetypes?" They measure two different things, which is why they can sometimes look like they disagree. Nothing is failing to sync when they do; this is how the Archipelago is designed to work.