How Long to Play? -- BGG Top 100 Playing Times according to logged plays

Spencer C UanarchyK) Canada

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Fortunately, some fastidious souls out there not only log plays, but log the time each play took. I report statistics on these logged plays in this list. Hopefully, these values will give a more accurate representation of how long a game takes.



Methodology:

Using the BGG API I queried all the plays of the top 100 games over the weekend of 2016/12/02. From these, I found all plays where a length is reported. I further selected only those plays where the number of games played wasn't >1 (it's unclear if length of 2 games played is per game or total). I also report additional statistics on play time as a function of player count -- this is based on the number of players listed for the play, when available.



Median is the raw median, mean is the trimmed mean (bottom and top 5% removed). Delta is the difference between the database's recorded playing time and the user log median.