I've recently been thinking about different styles of engaging with BGA when I noticed certain players with multiple thousand plays of a single game, but only two or three different games ever played. On the other extreme is the player who reached one win in every single game available on BGA at the time (or maybe it was 100 ELO in every game). Some people narrowly focus, and some go for breadth.
I'm sort of in the middle. I will obsess about a game for a while, and I have over 1,000 plays in one game, and four games with about 500+ plays ("about" because Sea Salt & Paper is at 499). But I've played 100+ different games here.
On BGG you can track your H-Index, which is the number of unique games that you have played at least that number of times each. On BGA you have to do it yourself manually, but my H-Index on BGA is 31.
When I saw that figure, my first thought was "hmm, what do I have to play a few more times to get it to 32?" Then my next thought was "wait, do I really care if it goes higher?" The concern being that focusing on getting it higher necessarily means replaying that single game just to do it. That time could be spent instead on diving into new games (shout out to "Botanicus" that I played in beta which just got its full release today) or older games with fewer plays. Also, H-Index boosting would be heavily weighted toward short games because there are only so many hours in a day. Short games are fun, but they feel like snacks as opposed to a nourishing meal of longer games.
If my H-Index increases, I think I want it to happen organically through a new game I get obsessed with (I'm looking at you "Nana Toridori").
Does anyone track their H-Index and actively try to boost it?
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I tried searching specifically for "H-Index" but the 'H' is ignored and I only got hits on "index." This is by way of apology if this has been covered in another thread.
I'm sort of in the middle. I will obsess about a game for a while, and I have over 1,000 plays in one game, and four games with about 500+ plays ("about" because Sea Salt & Paper is at 499). But I've played 100+ different games here.
On BGG you can track your H-Index, which is the number of unique games that you have played at least that number of times each. On BGA you have to do it yourself manually, but my H-Index on BGA is 31.
When I saw that figure, my first thought was "hmm, what do I have to play a few more times to get it to 32?" Then my next thought was "wait, do I really care if it goes higher?" The concern being that focusing on getting it higher necessarily means replaying that single game just to do it. That time could be spent instead on diving into new games (shout out to "Botanicus" that I played in beta which just got its full release today) or older games with fewer plays. Also, H-Index boosting would be heavily weighted toward short games because there are only so many hours in a day. Short games are fun, but they feel like snacks as opposed to a nourishing meal of longer games.
If my H-Index increases, I think I want it to happen organically through a new game I get obsessed with (I'm looking at you "Nana Toridori").
Does anyone track their H-Index and actively try to boost it?
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I tried searching specifically for "H-Index" but the 'H' is ignored and I only got hits on "index." This is by way of apology if this has been covered in another thread.
