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Here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/338978 ... -boards-2p

I didn't know how to word the question well, so please don't get all forensic on the precise wording. All I am asking is which games on BGA are closest to a pure luck game, where the finishing order is least related to the decisions of the players. I don't even care what the 'correct' answer is, asu...

Here are statistics from over 18,000 results from BGA games.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/269712 ... unbalanced

Olympia B is the worst wonder at every player count.

Hali B is by far the best wonder at every player count.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/303144 ... b-strategy

Follow this and you will do OK.

Data for 3,431 7-player games (7p games played by top players, from August 2020 and older): --Win%-- % 1st+2nd place-- % 6th+7th place Hb-- 45 64 6 Rb-- 29 48 9 Eb-- 27 48 12 Gb-- 27 42 10 Ab-- 25 45 14 Ob-- 25 42 16 Bb-- 20 35 16 Ha-- 23 38 18 Ra-- 27 38 19 Ea-- 17 40 15 Ga-- 31 51 11 Aa-- 25 39 1...

You can go below 200 if you lose. Which should happen nearly 50% of the time starting from 200 and playing a single game. Then when you fall down a bracket and you could continue to sink down. I suppose you could argue you just need to rinse and repeat until it works. Thanks for the replies everyon...

I am curious about the impact on a player's ELO if they only play in games where there is a set minimum ELO rating. Let me give a simple example. Consider a game of pure luck - the entire game is that each player rolls a single dice once and the highest roll wins and lowest roll is last. After each ...

I've done some more stats, going back into the pre-second edition times, with higher ELO players. About 1,300 results. All four player still, B sides only Average scores: 55.4 Hali 53.8 Rhodes 52.8 Ephesus 52.0 Alexandria 51.6 Olympia 51.5 Giza 49.9 Babylon Average win %: 36.5 Hali 35.9 Rhodes 25.9 ...

Thanks so much for calculating these, laggercat. I don't know how much manual effort went into this but it had to have been sizable. @6element - for some context I don't think anyone is trying to apply these stats to improve at the game. Myself and others have been debating which edition of the gam...

I'm curious if others have this kind of experience with 7 Wonders. A few days ago my ELO was 411. Over the next 15 games it fell to 250, the lowest I've been for a very long time. During that sequence I finished last 6 times and second last 4 times, against a variety of high and low ELO players. Alm...