How to log plays

You can log plays from the game's individual article. In the main "Game Entry" section is a link to "Record a Play". There is also a link to "Record a Play" in the "User Information" section.

You can also log plays without leaving your own profile. From the "My Geek" section at the top of the screen, choose "Collection." A list of the games you own will be displayed. Choose the row for the game you want to log in and click in the cell under the "Your Plays" column, two from the right side of the screen. A dialog box will come up and you can log your play in from there.

How to delete logged plays

To delete a logged play, go to any of the pages that show your logged plays (e.g. My Geek | Games Played | By Date) and then you can Edit or Delete the logged play(s).

Policies about logged plays

There are no rules and no general consensus about questions like:

Which types of games should I log?

• Face-to-face (almost everyone would log these)
• Played via computer with other humans
• Played via computer with other humans and AI players
• Played via computer only with AI players (most people wouldn't log these)

What date should I log a game that took more than one day?

• The day I started playing
• The day I finished playing
• Each day I played it (most people wouldn't do this)

What about expansions? (There's really no clear consensus on this question.)

• Only log base games
• Only log the expansion
• Log the expansion and the base game
• Log the base game, and use a hack to log the expansion as a fractional e.g. 0.1 or 0.01

Decide for yourself what your logging goals are and choose a personal policy accordingly. Is a game against AI players just as meaningful for you as a game against humans? Do you want your total number of plays per month to equal the number of times you played a game that month, or do you want each game and expansion to show how many times you played it? Is it easier for you to remember to log a long game the day it begins or the day it ends? Etc.

Expansions are complicated

People often propose that BGG should automatically link expansions to "the" base game they expand, so they can log the expansion and have it automatically log the base game for them. But:

• What if you log 2 different expansions of the same base game? How does the system know whether you played the game 2 times, once with each expansion, or one time with both expansions?
• Some expansions expand more than one base game, e.g. Carcassonne: King & Scout expands both Carcassonne and Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers.
• Some games can be played on their own or as an expansion to another, e.g. Dominion: Intrigue can be played on its own or as an expansion to Dominion.