Martin Fowler

Although most of what I write and publish is on software development, some may know that I have a (un)healthy interest in tabletop boardgames. I got into hobby board games while at school and have continued my involvement, these days streaming regularly on YouTube with Heavy Cardboard.

Folks engaged in this hobby have long had their own social network, a website called BoardGameGeek, which hosts discussion forums, blogs, support files, and all sorts of material about the hobby. One of its features is that it stores ratings of all of its users on board games, allowing them to create a ranking of top games.

While people reasonably argue about the questionable meaning of these rankings, there’s still a degree of interest in them. I’ve certainly found them a useful way to identify games that might interest me, aware that while many highly ranked games aren’t to my taste, those that

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