Comparison of Top Reviewers' Top 10
Renee Mc
United States
California
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Being new to the BBG I have spent a lot of time looking through reviews and trying to determine what route I want to go down with my game purchases. While looking through these reviews and their top 10 lists I noticed one thing...practically nothing. All these reviewers have completely different tastes for their favorite games. Some of their Top 10 don't even match up to their highest rated games. These reviewers greatly sway all of our decisions in what games we may be interested in next and yet none of them have anything in common.
So the geek in me who likes random facts wondered how often do reviewers have the same games in their top 10 and what are they.
So that's what I did. I looked at the top 114 reviewers who have written 40+ reviews for the BGG and made a list of how often the same game is on a reviewers Top 10 list. There were several games that appeared twice, but I did not include them in this list because then there would be almost 200 games. If a game appeared the same amount of times I ranked it alphabetically. This list goes to show that reviewers are opinionated, but obvioulsy their preferences do not line up with each other. You have to find out for yourself what kind of gamer you are and play your games that way.
Hopefully you will all find the information as interesting as I do. If any of you have ideas for other random facts that you're interested in and there's no list for it yet, let me know and maybe I'll find it interesting too and put forth the time to make a list.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Interesting list.
Tempe
AZ
Duisburg
The most interesting part about top reviewer's top 10 lists would be to find those 1-3 reviewers with a taste matching your own, because you're more likely to find a game you like if one of these select reviewers (or even all of them) recommended it.
So if you had the top reviewer's top 10 lists in, say, a spreadsheet, you could easily find the eclectic few who like, i.e. Combat Commander: Europe or Napoleon's Triumph if you're interested in wargames, or Go and Chess and Ingenious for abstracts etc.
Chatham
Kent
If you count up the amount of reviewers per game, then I scored 26. I wonder if anyone will score 115 and what does that then say about them?
Nice to see a couple of oldies (Talisman & Acquire) getting in the list, with so many new games coming out, the oldies but goodies tend to get forgotten in most lists these days.