It's Saturday night and I'm waiting for the kids to fall asleep, so I thought I'd take the time to highlight an article I'm proud of. If you ever wondered how the #BoardGameGeek ratings are calculated (and why it is done the way it is), you should check it out: blog.recommend.games/posts/revers...

Reverse engineering the BoardGameGeek ranking

TL;DR: BoardGameGeek calculates its ranking by adding around 1500-1600 dummy ratings of 5.5 to the regular users' ratings. They called it their geek score, statisticians call it a Bayesian average. We...