Re: [pbmserv] popularity of games

[Richard Rognlie <rrognlie@gamerz.net>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:54:44AM +0100, Kevin Buzzard wrote:
> What are the most "popular" games on the server? More precisely: if you
> look at all the games which are currently in progress over the whole
> server, which game is being played the most?

I just did a quick "count" of the history (completed game) files for
all of the games on pbmserv, and the top 20 are...

  28048 Backgammon
   7188 Renju
   3057 Scramble
   2686 Plakoto
   2566 Othello
   1865 Pente
   1827 Nackgammon
   1651 Go
   1644 Chess
   1496 LoA
   1460 Zertz
   1309 Trax
   1268 Hypergammon
   1257 TwixT
   1165 Amazons
    939 Hex
    836 Moultezim
    824 Shogi
    808 Robots
    796 ToW

The top 20 "active" games (numbers of game files that are either active, 
or recently completed [<2wks]) are...

Backgammon      293
Scramble        110
Plakoto          66
Druid            66
Renju            65
Go               65
Lingo            51
Trinim           47
Ninuki           35
Hypergammon      33
Conway           33
Warship          32
Xiangqi          31
Deadgammon       31
Orbit            26
Trax             25
Conhex           24
Hive             22
Wizard           21

(anomaly...)
Robots          806  (a bug in the Cleanup function..? will investigate)

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