An Analysis of the Dice Tower Top 100s by a Rank Amateur (2017 Edition)

Taylor Sabbag ruqas) Canada

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Whilst browsing the Interblags, I wondered whether anyone had compiled and analyzed the Top 100s of Tom, Sam, and Zee, from this year (2017). To my utter dismay, I couldn't even find a complete list in one place, only the segments of 10 at a time available on dicetower.com.



Thus, I endeavoured to take on this mighty feat by my very lonesome. Soon, however, I ran into an impasse: I'm god awful with Excel, apparently. Distraught, I turned to our humble Reddit brethren on /r/boardgames, and in no time at all, I had all the help I needed. Special thanks to /u/AgentDib for teaching me how to complete my analyses, and thanks to everyone else who commented on my Reddit post. Extra shoutout to /u/mxzf for showing how to do it in Python, even after I had completed it in Excel.



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Now, without further ado, the results of my analysis...



I shall be breaking my analysis down into two parts:



1. How many times a game is mentioned across the lists. Games which are mentioned twice are given 2 stars and games which are mentioned thrice are given 3 stars. These games will be listed below in this description.



2. Each game was assigned a score based on its rank in the following way: Game #100 was given a score of 1, then each next game was given a score .25 greater than the last. Therefore, roughly speaking, the #1 game is 25 3/4 times better than the #100 game for each list. The scores of each unique game was totalled if it was mentioned in multiple lists. For example, if Tom ranked Oneupmanship as his #1 game, Sam ranked it as his #100 game, and Zee (voice of the people) didn't rank it at all, Oneupmanship would have a total score of 26.75 (25.75+1). Finally, the games were sorted and, of course, ranked on their total score, and I will list the top 24 (the 25th will be reserved for listing the scores of games 25-50) in the following Geeklist items.



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Games



- Blood Rage

- Cosmic Encounter

- King of Tokyo

- Onitama

- Santorini

- Summoner Wars

- TIME Stories



Games



- 7 Wonders

- Automania

- Balderdash

- BattleLore (2nd Edition)

- Captain Sonar

- Caverna: The Cave Farmers

- Century: Spice Road

- Champions of Midgard

- Cleopatra and the Society of Architects

- Colosseum

- Cry Havoc

- Deception

- Dixit

- Ghost Stories

- Jamaica

- Libertalia

- Mansions of Madness (2nd Edition)

- Memoir '44

- Mission: Red Planet

- Neuroshima Hex

- Pandemic

- Photosynthesis

- Queendomino

- Race for the Galaxy

- Raptor

- Rising 5

- Rising Sun

- Robinson Crusoe

- Rum and Bones: Second Tide

- Sheriff of Nottingham

- Smash Up

- Spyfall

- Star Wars: Rebellion

- Targi

- Terraforming Mars

- The Godfather

- Twilight Struggle

- Viral

- Viticulture

- Yamatai



Man

Dennis