Board Game Arena

Hi, i have no idea why some games are premium and others aren't, but there is a group of coal baron players where i found this link to a tutorial : https://boardgamearena.com/tutorial?gam ... orial=1698

Hi everybody, since one or two days some graphics (the maps in Great Western Trail and in Orleans aren't complete : the paths between locations (for GWT : in the upper part, only visible in the extension) are missing). Am i the only one with this issue ? (This is for Chrome -- i haven't checked othe...

just by curiosity : if you play with multiple accounts but never in the same game, how can this influence ranking ? What would you think if the top 10 places in Arena or elo rankings were all alternate accounts of the same player? Do you believe others would think that's fair? What is the differenc...

just by curiosity : if you play with multiple accounts but never in the same game, how can this influence ranking ?

I would not be suggesting it if it wasn't for the fact that every time the topic comes up someone posts a comment like In a >2 player game, do NOT boot them and ruin everyone's game, coz that makes you the impolite one, to put it very mildly. For some reason people blame the person who doesn't want...

Which of the answers is right ? Can someone who comes always second in multiplayer games have a positive win-rate ?

If you think of a sport like biathlon you might think that -- in that case -- a (at least) two-dimensional skill-measure would be needed, one to measure the skill of skiing, the other of shooting and, without strong conditions on all competitions of biathlon, it shouldn't be possible to reduce the ...

Some people are good in skiing, others in shooting. Lets assume that one can associate at every person a one-dimensional parameter, one for skiing, the other shooting, reflecting their skill perfectly. So a person, say Anne, with skills (100,200) will be better in shooting than Bob with skills (200,...

Yeah, right, "linear" isn't a good choice -- i wanted to stress the point that a one-dimensional measure is enough to capture all of the skill. If you think of a sport like biathlon you might think that -- in that case -- a (at least) two-dimensional skill-measure would be needed, one to m...

If ELO (in the sense of a linear measure of skill for a specific game, giving predictions for the average outcome) exists, its predictive value is perfect, luck-heavy game or not. If it exists, one might struggle to find appropriate formulas which give good approximations of ELO --- especially in lu...