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Tag: statistics

  • 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 Golem. Early on my career my rating dipped down to below 1400 (it’s an ELO…

  • 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 less than last year, but then again, I played overall less games this year. Numbers…

  • 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 it. According to my counts, I’ve written about 135 000 words before this entry. That’s…

  • 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 Garde, Spacebeans, Manhattan, Princes of Florence, Ricochet Robot, Samurai and Bohnanza will join the list…

  • Games of 2003

    Here it is — the fabled games of 2003 overview (see the 2002 report). 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 list, though it’s also quite annoying to try to select a…

  • 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 spreadsheet enters the picture here. I can count the average number of players in each…

  • 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. Here’s how it’s calculated for each game: First count the harmonic average of number of…

  • 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 hobby, keeping track of it all. Lately I’ve been fiddling about with performance measures. Amount…

  • 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 games. “Lista pelaajista” is a list of players. It began with the very basics: a…

  • 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 and haven’t played in a while. All I needed was a formula to get me…