Post by The Konishoner on Nov 29, 2016 19:23:03 GMT -6
For those that may or may not know, Boardgame Geek or BGG is a major game messageboard that has a big impact on games. We're fairly new to it in a sense. I've been registered for about a year, but haven't really done much there.
You can go register and search for Intergalactic Fight Club. There you can log your own game play as much as you want. That really doesn't do much for us in terms of getting noticed there, but something for your own use. You can rate us there, but until we get at least 30 user ratings, it won't do anything, but we have to start somewhere!
The ratings explained more here: boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/ratings
An excerpt here on it:
The User Ratings are also used to determine the Rank of a game in the BGG database. Only games that have at least 30 User Ratings are eligible for Ranking and to the User Ratings are added a number of "dummy" ratings, which are then used to produce a new average Rating. (E.g. see this thread.) This is the rating that shows up in BGG searches and the number can, and does, vary from the Average Rating. In effect the "dummy" ratings move a game's average towards the norm of all games on the database - making games with few votes but very high ratings lower ranked than games with many more ratings but a lower Average Rating. (If you want to know more about this process, search on "Bayesian" within BGG.) Additionally, secret undocumented stuff is done to try to filter out obviously bogus "shill" or "hate" ratings. (There are many threads from people asking about or trying to figure out the details, but they are intentionally undocumented.)
Note that the number of "dummy" ratings apparently depends on the total number of ratings. This explains the apparent "paradox" (often asked in the forums, e.g. here) of why game X is higher ranked than game Y overall, but game Y is higher ranked than game X in subdomain Z.
You can go register and search for Intergalactic Fight Club. There you can log your own game play as much as you want. That really doesn't do much for us in terms of getting noticed there, but something for your own use. You can rate us there, but until we get at least 30 user ratings, it won't do anything, but we have to start somewhere!
The ratings explained more here: boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/ratings
An excerpt here on it:
The User Ratings are also used to determine the Rank of a game in the BGG database. Only games that have at least 30 User Ratings are eligible for Ranking and to the User Ratings are added a number of "dummy" ratings, which are then used to produce a new average Rating. (E.g. see this thread.) This is the rating that shows up in BGG searches and the number can, and does, vary from the Average Rating. In effect the "dummy" ratings move a game's average towards the norm of all games on the database - making games with few votes but very high ratings lower ranked than games with many more ratings but a lower Average Rating. (If you want to know more about this process, search on "Bayesian" within BGG.) Additionally, secret undocumented stuff is done to try to filter out obviously bogus "shill" or "hate" ratings. (There are many threads from people asking about or trying to figure out the details, but they are intentionally undocumented.)
Note that the number of "dummy" ratings apparently depends on the total number of ratings. This explains the apparent "paradox" (often asked in the forums, e.g. here) of why game X is higher ranked than game Y overall, but game Y is higher ranked than game X in subdomain Z.