Board Game Arena

It reminds me of when I was in school and we had to create a program that would pilot the trajectory of a car in a virtual race. At the end of the semester, all the bots played the race in class and we could see at what position our car would finish (some cars didn't even finish). It can be a cool ...

In my mind ELO works great as an indicator of your current form/skill, but it works poor as goal to set for yourself. Only occasions I can think of, is when you are looking for some ELO-related badges or for a high-level tournament registration (that I would personally see as the only rational reaso...

I had recently thought about one thing regarding arena play, not sure if it was discussed before. It's purely hypothetical, so I don't know if anyone is doing this or if it's even a viable strategy. You can play arena turn-based, so having multiple tables in parallel. Turn-based play gives you some ...

I've seen this point brought up multiple times and in different games. I don't have a developer experience on BGA, so it's a bit of an educated guess from my side, but the simplest solution for this seems to be to place all the non-winning players at T2 (tied for second) at the end of the game by sl...

That's how it always works in the beginning of the arena with such kind of games. Points gained/lost depend on what ranks your opponents and you are. As everyone is around silver at the beginning, gaining is slow. You need to have a good run of games to jump up the rank and then it becomes even hard...

Maybe a spin on your idea, that is slightly more realistic to implement. Once a year have a "champions league" tournament (probably turn-based). Last four arenas' top 4 (or other number depending on the game) get the qualification spots for the tournament. If any qualified player qualifies...

This would be logical but unfortunately it's wrong. Contrary to the Elo points, the Arena points don't seem to have any hidden decimals, and the tie-breaker is a pretty silly one, i.e. whoever has played the game last (not necessarily in the Arena) goes first. Source: many years of playing in the A...

I can't tell for sure, but I'm almost certain, that Arena scores are only displayed as whole numbers, but are stored as decimals with a certain precision. So most likely when Arena scores appear tied in reality they are not, and thus no tiebreaker is needed. How many decimal points are there and wha...

I do agree, that Elo rating while good by itself is not an ideal solution for Arena, albeit maybe for slightly different reasons. That being said, I can't think of a better solution, that is practical for BGA. So here are my thoughts. Ratings in general and Elo rating specifically are designed to ev...

The way elo works is that both players "ante" rating points based on their rating difference, and the winner gets the pot. Elo uses the formula 1 / (1 + 10^(rating difference/400)) as the "better player's chance of winning", where "rating difference" is lower rated pla...