Then it does all its calculations in Node and pushes up all the data the website will need for the day. The Tabletop Tracker crawler wakes up daily and records the current position of all ranked games. Here are the slides I put together when presenting to my fellow students. (I graduate and will be looking for work in April, 2017 by the way).
#Hottest board games of 2016 software
This was a project I built after 3 months in Nashville Software School. Sharon Khan ( sa266) is also tracking which games are getting the most plays each month.Īdd a comment if I’m missing a great resource.
You can subscribe to it directly from within BoardGameGeek. If you’re on BoardGameGeek, Michael Alexander ( beefsack), has been posting the biggest BGG Climbers each week based on ranking changes.
Hover over a chart title to learn more about that specific chart. Click any game title or image to be sent to its BoardGameGeek entry. In The Hotness chart, hover over an image to learn more details about a game. Toggle between Day and Week in the ranking charts to change the date range. Often these are games that are highly anticipated but not yet available. The games on this list are often tied to games people are most excited about. The data in this view is coming from the BoardGameGeek API. BoardGameGeek calculates which games are getting the most views on their site. This section of Tabletop Tracker pulls from the BoardGameGeek Hotness list. This chart is being drawn using the Google Charts API and I checked the Wayback Machine for historical data. What is interesting is how much more volatility you see in recent years compared to the relative stability in the top 10 in earlier years. You can hover over a line to see which game was ranked among the top 10 going back to 2009. Games represented by grey lines are games that have dropped out of the current top 10. Top 10 Chartīesides rankings charts, I also included a line chart showing the top 10 games over time to give some context. Since there are currently 13,248 ranked games, this means this chart is filtering to only the games ranked in the top 7.5% of all ranked games. If you’re interested in only exceptional games that are moving up in the rankings, use the Top 1,000 chart. This allows you to see which new board games are shooting up in the rankings based on adoption from the board gaming community. Tabletop Tracker takes a snapshot of all ranked games each day so it can calculate the change in a game’s rankings over time. How Tabletop Tracker HelpsīoardGameGeek has a excellent rating system, but it doesn’t provide context on how quickly a game is rising in the rankings. For context, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 has a Geek Rating of 8.5/10, and Tic-Tac-Toe has a Geek Rating of 3.3/10. That means a game with the same average user rating (but with more total ratings) is more likely to be ranked higher. This is the average of a game’s user ratings, weighted for the total number of its ratings. Rankings are based on a game’s Geek Rating. There are currently 13,248 ranked games on BoardGameGeek ranging from the number 1 ranked board game ( Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 ) and the lowest ranked game ( Tic-Tac-Toe ). Then board games can be rated by the community.īoard games with at least 30 ratings are eligible to be ranked. Users can create pages about board games as they are released. It’s a wiki and a social network rolled into one. 
If you’re new to the board gaming hobby, BoardGameGeek is the premier website about board games. It does this by pinpointing which games are most quickly moving up the BoardGameGeek rankings. Tabletop Tracker helps you track which new board games deserve your attention among the thousands of games published each year. I built Tabletop Tracker to solve that issue.
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