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Chart of games played 2003 - 2013

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31 Jul 2013 18:07 #157489 by engelstein
Someone compiled a chart of percentage of plays of different games based on BGG-reported plays. Thought it was very interesting:



A few points:

1. There are many 'perennials' that seem to have maintained a very consistent share of plays over the last 10 years, including Carcasonne, Power Grid, and Settlers, plus newer arrivals like Race for the Galaxy, Pandemic, and Dominion.

2. Puerto Rico is dwindling down to zero

3. There have been many 'flash in the pan' games like Quarriors, Dungeon Lords, and Kingdom Builder that gain significant share for a very brief time

4. Knizia's star has really fallen. In 2004-05 he had Ra, LOTR, Through the Desert, Tigris & Euphrates, and Ingenious, and since then after nothing on the list.

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31 Jul 2013 18:46 #157491 by jeb
Not sure what to make of it, as folks that RECORD plays is a subset of a subset of people PLAYING games. That's the big caveat for me. Also lends itself to skew by games that play short. Someone can record an ARKHAM HORROR play or twenty-two 7 WONDERS plays and both had the same Tuesday gaming night. Would like to see it adjusted for median play-time (i.e., track hours-in-game rather than play-of-game).

Can we talk about 2007? Holy boardgame dark ages, Batman. And Robin. And Nightwing, too, sure. Draw a line through Dec 2006 and I want to play: ARKHAM HORROR, TIGRIS & EUPHRATES, CITADELS, and... SETTLERS I guess? Jeez.

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31 Jul 2013 19:21 #157494 by Gary Sax
Should be doable to weight by game time, since that is kept in the BGG database.

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31 Jul 2013 21:27 #157502 by wadenels
I didn't count, but visually it looks like as years progress fewer games are getting enough plays to register on the chart.

Weighted by play time would be interesting; I've got a ton of Perudo and Dixit plays, but I've got way more time invested in playing BSG (or several other "long" games).

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31 Jul 2013 21:46 #157505 by Shellhead
I don't understand the y-axis of that chart. For example, what does it mean that Castles of Burgundy is on the 100% end of the y-axis? 100% of what?

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31 Jul 2013 21:57 #157506 by jeb
Y-axis width is fraction. Distance from origin on the y-axis is not meaningful. So, Castles of Burgundy looks like it's got about 5% of recorded plays, because that's how wide it is.

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31 Jul 2013 21:58 - 31 Jul 2013 21:59 #157507 by bioball

Shellhead wrote: I don't understand the y-axis of that chart. For example, what does it mean that Castles of Burgundy is on the 100% end of the y-axis? 100% of what?


Since Castles of Burgundy is between 100-95%, it means that of people playing games, 5% of the games played where Castles of Burgundy.

I've always hated data represented this way because most of the time you read a percentage from 0-X%. These charts are supposed to be a sort of linear pie chart or a pie chart over time.
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31 Jul 2013 22:22 #157509 by DukeofChutney
ARRRHGHHGHRRR, its a wall of euro!

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31 Jul 2013 22:33 #157511 by bioball

DukeofChutney wrote: ARRRHGHHGHRRR, its a wall of euro!


They have that bland, appeal-to-everyone flavor. Like vanilla or Corona.

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01 Aug 2013 08:56 #157526 by bomber
there must be a very strong effect of people stopping logging and/or being drowned by new users / cult of the new, I find it hard to believe for example that Memoir 44 died off as in that chart. Still pretty cool chart, though obviously very euro centric, as to be expected

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01 Aug 2013 11:37 - 01 Aug 2013 11:38 #157529 by Schweig!

ldsdbomber wrote: there must be a very strong effect of people stopping logging and/or being drowned by new users / cult of the new, I find it hard to believe for example that Memoir 44 died off as in that chart. Still pretty cool chart, though obviously very euro centric, as to be expected

I think that's just people switching from M'44 to Commands & Colors: Ancients, which came out in 2006.

It looks as if the chart requires a certain minimum number of plays from a game for it to be listed and neither M'44 nor CC:A probably reached that number after CC:A was published.
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01 Aug 2013 14:08 #157542 by jeb
Yeah it's definitely a list only of games that logged some fraction of the total for the time period. There is probably supposed to be some big "OTHER" blob that takes up half the chart. This is a percentage plot ONLY of plays of games that went over a threshhold of total games played.

In that way it's fitting, as it's a fraction of a fraction of information supplied by a fraction of a fraction of game players.
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02 Aug 2013 00:53 #157600 by Sevej
I think it's pretty representative. Just a hunch though. The 2013 numbers are certainly not good enough.

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02 Aug 2013 06:15 #157606 by username
From my point of view:

1. This would not represent my game club at all.
2. There are 20+ people in my local club and most of them have never heard of BGG. 2-3 of them are actually collectors btw. I have run a twice yearly conventions for most of the last 13 years and have hardly heard BGG mentioned. Our metropolitan area is 100K + btw. I have never heard anybody say they record games at BGG. So potentially many games played are not logged. Maybe they do it secretly , who knows.

In the interest of full disclosure: I should point out we are usually 1-2 years behind any other trend out here(wiggers just arrived last week!), so maybe the same with games.

It's still interesting to see what's being recorded over at TOS, and I thank the original poster for putting it up.

The only games we play on the chart are Eclipse, Small World (rare) and King of Tokyo.

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