BGA stats on popular games

[villager]

Is there a report out there that shows which games are being played by the community?

There's a "most popular games" list at https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist but its not clear what stat was used.

Would love to see a report that shows the top 20 games played last week / month / quarter / year.

[msclark]

If you go to https://boardgamearena.com/gameinprogress and scroll to the bottom you can see the games being currently played. That's usually a pretty good idea of what's popular.

[villager]

thx that is exactly what i was looking for..

Looks like the Popular Games list is based on the count of current in-progress games

Game Real-time turn-based
Azul 175 5990 games in progress
Carcassonne 110 4305 games in progress
Splendor 59 3200 games in progress
7 Wonders Duel 57 3190 games in progress
Lucky Numbers 43 2791 games in progress
The Castles of Burgundy 45 2679 games in progress
Gaia Project 34 2243 games in progress
Agricola 45 2116 games in progress
Kingdomino 25 2101 games in progress
Lost Ruins of Arnak 45 2058 games in progress
Stone Age 44 1942 games in progress
Can't Stop 26 1792 games in progress
7 Wonders Architects 29 1742 games in progress

[Shazzypaz]

This definitely isn't a perfect view of the most popular games. Stop-It has been insanely popular since its release last week. But the games are very quick so the "games in progress" doesn't capture its popularity.

[villager]

very true.. wonder if BGA admins could expose the "completed games" report rather than the in-progress games report.

[thoun]

This definitely isn't a perfect view of the most popular games. Stop-It has been insanely popular since its release last week. But the games are very quick so the "games in progress" doesn't capture its popularity.

Spot-it games can be very short, so even if there is more game played than an other, there will be less "in progress" games at the same time than other longer games.

[Shazzypaz]

I meant Spot-It of course. Stop-It was an amusing "Freudian slip".

[villager]

please upvote this if you feel that the completed games stat will be useful.

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=56720

[KarmanMonkey]

I wouldn't want total games to replace current number of games as a metric of a game's popularity, because that puts a bias on older games. A game that has just fair to middling popularity would outstrip a game of tremendous popularity if it has been on BGA 10 times as long... For example, "Through the Ages" I recall being in the top spot for the first year or so I've been playing on the site, but I don't think it's even in the top ten now...

[villager]

I wouldn't want total games to replace current number of games as a metric of a game's popularity, because that puts a bias on older games. A game that has just fair to middling popularity would outstrip a game of tremendous popularity if it has been on BGA 10 times as long... For example, "Through the Ages" I recall being in the top spot for the first year or so I've been playing on the site, but I don't think it's even in the top ten now...

absolutely.. my wish was for a separate report. The current implementation for "popular games" can remain.

But to your point, the Popular Games list could be based on "completed games" in the last week / 2 weeks / month..?