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For those of you following my recent lists/posts, I've been fiddling with game(r) clusters a lot lately. The 5-cluster grouping that I posted about in my other recent list ( http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/18879) seems to work pretty well.

While some games strongly and primarily match one cluster or another, others are more spread between clusters. Further, if you take a particular gamers Top 10, noone is going to exclusively match one cluster. The results of these matches are a little complex to interpret, so I made a way to visually represent it, and I think it's very neat.

It's a "spider plot"/"cobweb plot"/"radar plot", of the quality of match of each of the 5 clusters where the clusters have been ordered in a way that seems to make sense. The size of the "web" corresponds to the match quality.

In this way, you can generate a "fingerprint" for a game, a gamer, a game group (by entering the top/most played games of that group), a designer, or any number of other game related things. I've posted a few. The tool to make the graphs is at: http://mkgray.com:8000/cgi/gamercluster2
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1. Board Game: The Settlers of Catan [Average Rating:7.51 Overall Rank:79]
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This is the shape of a family Euro:
 
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2. Board Game: Puerto Rico [Average Rating:8.26 Overall Rank:3]
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Puerto Rico is the iconic game of the Euro-1 cluster, and is a spike:

 
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That seems really odd that a game would be so dogmatically tied to a cluster. What exactly is the correlation between having Puerto Rico in your top 10 and being in the Euro-1 cluster? Is it 1?
 
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3. Board Game: Twilight Struggle [Average Rating:8.32 Overall Rank:1]
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A "Weuro":

 
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4. Board Game: Advanced Squad Leader [Average Rating:7.91 Overall Rank:60]
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A wargame:

 
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5. Board Game: YINSH [Average Rating:7.68 Overall Rank:65]
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An abstract is "smaller" because it doesn't as strongly match the clusters:

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6. Board Game: Arkham Horror [Average Rating:7.57 Overall Rank:69]
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An Amerigame:

 
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7. Board Game: RoboRally [Average Rating:7.25 Overall Rank:155]
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8. Board Game: Heroscape Master Set: Rise of the Valkyrie [Average Rating:7.38 Overall Rank:146]
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9. Board Game: Personal Preference [Average Rating:6.17 Overall Rank:4258]
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My personal graph (based on my top 10):

 
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10. Board Game: Ranke & Vyle [Average Rating:6.00 Unranked]
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BGG Top 10 (by rank):

 
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11. Board Game: Owner's Choice [Average Rating:6.28 Overall Rank:1742]
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BGG Top 10 (by ownership):

 
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It's interesting how closely this mirrors the graph for Settlers. Is that an indicator of why it's so successful or simply an artifact of its success?
 
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12. Board Game: Tigris & Euphrates [Average Rating:7.89 Overall Rank:15]
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Reiner Knizia (his top 10 games):



(given that this is his top 10 games, this is skewed to be shaped more like the BGG top 10 ranked games than a random sampling of his works might produce)
 
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Very nice work!

What motivated your selection of the ordering of the 5 clusters in the graphs?
 
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  • Posted Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:41 pm
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Is the link (to doing a graph) still working? When I click on it, I get "page can't be displayed/not found" - I'm still using Explorer
 
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  • Posted Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:17 pm
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Summary of this and the other clustering lists:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/146623
 
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  • Posted Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:44 pm
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I agree with MontyCircus, my graph is very similar to his, but that's not to say that I don't like the games from Ameri-1, Ameri-2 or Euro-3, it's just that I don't get the change to play them that much.



 
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  • Posted Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:02 am
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Herr Dr wrote:
Is the link (to doing a graph) still working? When I click on it, I get "page can't be displayed/not found" - I'm still using Explorer


Yes me too. Can't open the page
 
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