Board Game Arena

On August 22, 2026, I took a picture of my World Rank and XP as displayed in the Hall of Fame on BGA's main page. I only recently began to pay attention to these stats and was curious how my ranking would change over time.

I just looked at it now, 6 days later, and noticed that my XP has declined. I went from 30.3K XP to 29.7K XP. Obviously, my World Rank followed suit.

I was under the assumption that, as I earn achievements etc, my XP would only ever increase.

What mechanisms would result in a decrease in XP?

Penalties, removed (or moved back to alpha) games...

The XP of some achievements depends on some game stats (number of active players, game length/complexity...) at the time they are awarded, I don't think their XP value is updated if the relevant stats change, so that should not be a reason for an XP decrease.

I also noticed mine drop from 33k to 31k, and I have no clue why.