Board Game Arena

Hello,

I’ve read that it’s possible to use a property like "display": "Limited" to manage statistics that are not visible to players, mainly for publishers or administrative purposes. From my understanding, this allows publishers to request these statistics when needed.

I have a specific case in mind: let’s say I have a statistic, is_first_player_win, which records whether the first player won a game. Since this data would be stored for each game in the database (one DB per game), I understand that as a developer, handling aggregation directly is not feasible.

Additionally, I assume these databases are temporary and get deleted after a certain period, which means these statistics would eventually be lost.

Given this, my questions are:

Is there a way to track and aggregate data like "how many times the first player won" over time?
Would there need to be a specific agreement or contract with BGA to ensure these aggregated statistics are preserved and accessible?
Thank you for clarifying how these situations can be handled!

Best regards,
Xavier

phoelis wrote: ↑27 January 2025, 17:48 Additionally, I assume these databases are temporary and get deleted after a certain period, which means these statistics would eventually be lost.

If you're talking about the end game statistics (which I think you are) then I believe these are never deleted, For example https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=1000000 links to a Can't Stop table from 2012. The end game stats are still available. I presume this would also apply to 'hidden' statistics too.

great thanks @jmcl99 for the response, good point indeed
So that's means BGA is keeping some stats that could be aggregate. I therefore suppose that we need to contact BGA we we have an aggregation of data

best regards
Xavier