bgg: BoardGameGeek Game Data
In jchrom/geeks: Geek API Client

Description Usage Format info altnames numplayers playerage language links stats

A dataset containing 611 games acquired from the BoardGameGeek (BGG) database.

bgg

An object of class <geek_item> (a named list of data frames)

This dataset includes basic game info.

id int, a unique game id.
name chr, primary name.
yearpublished int
description chr
minage int
minplayers int
maxplayers int
playingtime int
minplaytime int
maxplaytime int
image chr, cover image URL.
seriescode logi
releasedate logi

This dataset includes alternative game names.

id int, a unique game id.
altname chr, game name.
type chr, indicates whether the name is a primary or alternate name.

This dataset includes poll results on the best number of players for a game.

id int, a unique game id.
numplayers chr, number of players, can be 4+ and similar string values.
option int, whether this number of players was voted "Best", "Recommended" or "Not Recommended".
votes int, how many times was this number of players voted for.

This dataset includes poll results on the most appropriate player age.

id int, a unique game id.
playerage chr, mostly numbers but can be "21 and up".
votes int, how many times this age was upvoted.

This dataset includes poll results on the degree of language requirements.

id int, a unique game id.
langlevel chr, one of four ordered values ranging from "no in-game text" to "unplayable in another language".
votes int, how many times this level upvoted.

A list of data frames. Includes information on related items, such as mechanics, categories, designers or artists. The actual column names follow the same pattern but depend on what type of link is included.

id int, a unique game id
link_id int, related item id.
link_name chr, related item name.

This dataset includes game statistics.

id int, a unique game id.
usersrated int, voter count.
average num, average rating.
bayesaverage num, see note below.
stddev num
median int
owned int, how many people currently own this game.
trading int, how many people want to sell this game.
wanting int, how many people want to buy this game.
wishing int, how many people have this game on their wishlist.
numcomments int
numweights int
averageweight num, a measure of game complexity.

bayeaverage. Games with less than 30 ratings do not have bayesaverage, so the value is NA. For games with at least 30 ratings, an average rating across the whole database is taken, then repeated a number of times (starting at 500 but can be more) and added to the actual ratings. This is to prevent games with very few ratings to reach extremely low or high averages. See this BGG thread. for discussion.

jchrom/geeks documentation built on Oct. 24, 2020, 9:01 a.m.