Board Games
tidytuesday"s Board Gamess from 25th January 2022, https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2022/2022-01-25.
Data sourced from Kagle.
Mean Rating Over the Years
## # A tibble: 21,631 × 32
## num.x id primary descr…¹ yearp…² minpl…³ maxpl…⁴ playi…⁵ minpl…⁶ maxpl…⁷
## <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 0 30549 Pandemic In Pan… 2008 2 4 45 45 45
## 2 1 822 Carcass… Carcas… 2000 2 5 45 30 45
## 3 2 13 Catan In CAT… 1995 3 4 120 60 120
## 4 3 68448 7 Wonde… You ar… 2010 2 7 30 30 30
## 5 4 36218 Dominion "… 2008 2 4 30 30 30
## 6 5 9209 Ticket … With e… 2004 2 5 60 30 60
## 7 6 178900 Codenam… Codena… 2015 2 8 15 15 15
## 8 7 167791 Terrafo… In the… 2016 1 5 120 120 120
## 9 8 173346 7 Wonde… In man… 2015 2 2 30 30 30
## 10 9 31260 Agricola Descri… 2007 1 5 150 30 150
## # … with 21,621 more rows, 22 more variables: minage <dbl>,
## # boardgamecategory <chr>, boardgamemechanic <chr>, boardgamefamily <chr>,
## # boardgameexpansion <chr>, boardgameimplementation <chr>,
## # boardgamedesigner <chr>, boardgameartist <chr>, boardgamepublisher <chr>,
## # owned <dbl>, trading <dbl>, wanting <dbl>, wishing <dbl>, num.y <dbl>,
## # name <chr>, year <dbl>, rank <dbl>, average <dbl>, bayes_average <dbl>,
## # users_rated <dbl>, url <chr>, thumbnail <chr>, and abbreviated variable …
Overall, until approximately 2007, mean ratings were steady around 5.8 / 6.0. After 2007, people started rating their games higher. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic did not appear to change this trend. People seemed to be able to enjoy their board games in the middle of World War 2 too.
1957 has an ‘unusual’ drop in mean board game ratings. At 3.93, it is 1.91 lower than 1956, 1.7 lower than 1958 and is the lowest rating in over 100 years. Some interesting things happeded in 1957 - notably the first ‘Frisbee’ became available and there was a Flu pandemic in Asia.