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Success metric

One of my pet projects has been to create a metric to measure my success in various games. I'm not satisfied with the obvious choices: sheer number of victories means the games I've played a lot are on the top,...

Posted by Mikko on January 11, 2008 7:14 PM

Hot games for Q4/2007

And here's the one final bit of trivia for 2007, the hot games for Q4. Shouldn't be any surprises in store, but it's good to have this one link in the chain of quarterly reports! Goodness continued from the previous...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2008 6:56 PM

Year metric

I've been a fan of Matthew Gray's month metric. Now I happened unto his Every year 2007 update, focusing on the year metric. I haven't been bothering with that, believing I wouldn't have many high-scoring games. Well, I thought, why...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2008 12:32 PM

Gaming year 2007

Another year of games is soon over. Gaming year 2006 was good, but I think this one was even better! At least in quality, not necessarily in quantity... Good new games (2006-2007 games) Agricola - This year brought two very...

Posted by Mikko on December 31, 2007 7:18 PM

Gaming year 2006

Once again the year is over and it's time for the year-end report. Here's 2005 for comparison... Good games published in 2006 Age of Steam: London and Sun, 1830's Pennsylvania and Northern California - I've played one map from each...

Posted by Mikko on January 2, 2007 8:00 AM

My favourite designers

Larry Levy had a column in Boardgame News called Rating the designers. He wrote about two different approaches to rating the designers, Knizia approach (counting a sum-based score from ratings given to designer's games) and Seyfarth approach (counting an average)....

Posted by Mikko on January 30, 2006 10:25 AM

Gaming year 2005

Here's my traditional year end review. However, I've worked the format a bit, hopefully so it's more interesting for other people to read. I was inspired by Mark Johnson's post back in 2004, so thanks to Mark! Here's the deal:...

Posted by Mikko on December 30, 2005 12:27 PM

Geek score

Since everybody's counting their geek score, here's mine: 75 played + 36 owned = 111 points. That's, of course, of the The One Hundred games. I consider my played games count pretty good - there's a bunch of games on...

Posted by Mikko on November 19, 2005 9:13 AM

How to recognise hot games

Let us enter the SuperGeek Zone. Everybody knows Huber happiness, right? It's a metric of how much happiness you get out of a game. It's calculated as (game rating - baseline) * average length in minutes * number of games...

Posted by Mikko on October 25, 2005 10:41 AM

StreetSoccer ratings

When I walked to work today, I thought about StreetSoccer. I don't count the play-by-web games in my statistics, but if I did, StreetSoccer would be second on my most-played games list; I've so far played 270 games at Little...

Posted by Mikko on September 2, 2005 11:28 AM

Games of 2004

Another year gone, another report of year's activities. Once more, there's probably more information than anyone wants to know, but it's more for me anyway. Once again I played more than 100 different games - 113 to be precise. That's...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2005 9:11 AM

Some statistics

I thought I'd entertain you with some statistics. This has nothing to do with games, but my blog, so feel free to skip this one. Anyway, I took everything I had written to Gameblog and wrote a program to count...

Posted by Mikko on November 4, 2004 1:48 PM

Every year games

Inspired by Matthew Gray's list, I thought I'd check which games I've played every year while I've kept count. These games I've played every year since 2001: 6 Nimmt, Lost Cities and Tigris & Euphrates. Carcassonne, Citadels, Battle Line, En...

Posted by Mikko on April 2, 2004 7:40 AM

Games of 2003

Here it is - the fabled games of 2003 overview. Enjoy. As it turned out, I played some games after I had posted this on mailing lists, but fortunately the data is still correct... It's always interesting to make this...

Posted by Mikko on January 1, 2004 12:59 PM

Randomness of games

New use for my spreadsheets! Consider this: if the outcome of a game is random, the win percentage should depend on the amount of players. In a completely random two-player game it should be 50% after enough games. Well. My...

Posted by Mikko on August 18, 2003 4:48 PM

Game stat madness continues

Hein Hundal contacted me about my game stats madness and described a very interesting rating system, which was easy enough to implement. It's basically a way to calculate what is the probability that one is better than an average opponent....

Posted by Mikko on August 12, 2003 9:36 AM

Game stat maths

I have an Excel spread-sheet where I record the games I play, noting the amount of players and the number of games I've won. I count month totals, happiness product and winning percentages. It's an essential part of my game...

Posted by Mikko on August 3, 2003 5:05 PM

My own Boardgamegeek

Recently I've been working on a dear project of mine: boardgame club stats service. It's in Finnish, unfortunately. Still, go see it and try clicking the link "Lista peleistä", for example to see how it works. That's the list of...

Posted by Mikko on March 10, 2003 1:50 PM

Games to play list 1/03

I calculated some numbers from game stats. First, I joined my 2001 and 2002 stats in a single Excel table to get more data to work on... I had this idea: I should do a list of games I like...

Posted by Mikko on January 12, 2003 11:25 AM

Year 2002 board game club stats

I also keep the statistics for our board game club. I think it's interesting to know what games are played (and by whom, but that is of minor interest). Of course, you can keep track of the stats in real...

Posted by Mikko on January 2, 2003 12:37 PM