Board Game Arena

What are you referring to by experience here? Having played the game a number of times. Elo is an indicator of skill. Experience won't gain Elo unless that experience translates into increased skill. It can be but it only measures plays on BGA and presumes they don't play anywhere else and/or don't...

Ceaseless wrote: ↑01 June 2026, 19:29

cfunke wrote: ↑01 June 2026, 19:17 I don't put a whole lot of stock in ELO. It's more a marker of experience than skill

What are you referring to by experience here?

Having played the game a number of times.

I don't put a whole lot of stock in ELO. It's more a marker of experience than skill and for the Arena a way to keep out the players who are just learning the game. I would just assume that either... The 100 player who beat me has played it a lot in person or somewhere outside of BGA They got lucky ...

I got into it with another player about this in a game last night. First he questioned why I grabbed a single red to place in the first row (to finish my column) instead of combining with 2 red for my third row (he didn't like that it pushed another tile he wanted into a larger group) and then threw...