This feature is in Beta, and must be enabled manually. It can still contain bugs!

This Beta test is available from BG Stats version 5.3.3. When you enable this Beta testing feature, you will be able to rate games in BG Stats, as well as filter and sort on your own ratings.

Please let us know if you encounter any issues, you can use the email address in Settings –> Help, About & Contact. Please add all relevant information: OS (Android or iOS) + version number, device type, BG Stats version number, and screen shots and your BGG username if relevant.
We will collect any issues and post here when an update of the app contains an update of this Beta. We are not looking for feature requests regarding Ratings at the moment.

Known issues:
  • iOS: Average Rating not displayed correctly on Games list when showing just BGG rating, when showing Both it works correctly. Fixed in version 5.4.
  • Android: ratings not loading –> This update is now live: version 5.3.4. Please Disable and then Enable the Ratings Beta again to load all your ratings correctly.
  • Setting a rating for a game not yet in your BGG collection fails in specific circumstances. Fixed in version 5.4.
Enabling the Ratings beta

To enable the Beta test for Rating games in BG Stats, go to Settings –> Help, About and Contact –> Beta features. On that screen you’ll find an “Enable Ratings…” button. Please read all information below carefully before doing this.

Disabling the Ratings beta

To disable the Beta test for Rating games in BG Stats, go to Settings –> Help, About and Contact –> Beta features. If ratings are enabled you will see the “Disable Ratings” here. Tap it to disable the Beta.
The app will behave as before you’ve enabled the Ratings Beta test.

Enabling Ratings

Collection sync not enabled
If you don’t have Collection sync with BoardGameGeek (BGG) enabled, tapping the Enable Ratings… button will enable the feature immediately. To make sure the app is completely updated for the change, force-quit the app and open it again. Your ratings will not be synced with BGG.

Collection sync enabled
If you do have Collection sync with BoardGameGeek (BGG) enabled, tapping the Enable Ratings… button will display the “Enable Rating games” screen. Here you need to make a choice before the final confirmation to enable the Ratings.

Read the information on this screen, and make a choice regarding which games are added to BG Stats during Collection sync:

  • “All games with any collection info”: all games in your BGG account that have ratings, comments, private info or any other specific collection info set will be added to BG Stats, if it doesn’t exist already. This is the default setting when using Ratings.
  • “Only games with a collection status”: only games that have a collection status (like Owned, Wishlist, etc.) are added to BG Stats during sync. This is how BG Stats originally behaved.

You can always change this in the Collection sync settings later, this is the option “Limit adding Games to the app“. This option will appear when ratings are enabled.

To confirm to enable ratings, tap the Update Collection button. This will update your collection in BG Stats based on the information in your BGG account. It will also add games to the app according to the setting you chose above.

Updating your collection can sometimes take a while. You will get a message when the process is completed and ratings are enabled. You can also return to this screen later to see the status.

You can add your own ratings to games in BG Stats. If you sync your collection with BGG, your ratings will be synced too.

Ratings

With Ratings in BG Stats you will be able to rate games, as well as filter and sort on your own ratings.

Displaying your rating

Your personal rating has a different display style than the BoardGameGeek (BGG) average rating, so you can easily tell them apart:

This is your personal rating.

This is the average BGG rating.

 

You can see your rating for a game in multiple places:

  • On a Game’s overview screen, in the second section of the top pager.
  • In the Quick collection popup, available by tapping the collection status below the game’s thumbnail, on the Game overview screen.
  • On the Edit collection screen
  • On the Game Copy screen.
  • In the games list, if you have enabled this in the List View Settings.

Games list
The ratings can only be seen in the Expanded View. Tap the gear menu and select “List View Settings“. Tap the “Expanded View” button to switch to the Expanded View, if applicable.

In the List View Settings, tap the dropdown next to Rating.

You can choose one of the following options:

  • None: display no rating in the list.
  • Mine: display only your own ratings in the list.
  • BGG: display on BGG’s average rating in the list.
  • Both: display both your own and BGG’s average rating in the list.

This menu also has a toggle option:

  • Allow changing rating: if enabled, personal ratings can be changed directly on the games list.

Setting your rating

You can set ratings in multiple places:

  • On a Game’s overview screen, in the second section of the top pager.
  • On the Game Copy screen.
  • In the list of games, if enabled. See Games list above.

This icon indicates you haven’t set a rating yet. Tap it to set a rating.

This icon shows your existing rating for a game.
You can see by the small dropdown-arrow that you can change this rating. Tap the icon to do so.

 

Tapping these icons will display a popup with a rating slider. Set your rating by tapping the numbers or dragging the slider. Tap anywhere outside the popup to Save and close the popup.

To remove a rating, drag the slider all the way down to below the 1. This will clear your rating.

Sorting and Filtering

Sorting

You can sort the games list on “My rating“.

Filtering

In the Custom Filter it is possible to filter on your own Rating. This is available in the Rating & Rank filter.

My Rating

There are three available options:

  • Range: Select a minimum and maximum Rating. The chosen range is displayed as the left option. Games that fall in the selected range will be shown. Tap the “x” before the displayed range to clear the filter.
  • Rated: Only games that have a personal rating will be shown.
  • Unrated: Only games that don’t have a personal rating will be shown.

Syncing with BoardGameGeek (BGG)

If you have Collection sync with BoardGameGeek turned on, your ratings will sync automatically with those on BGG. Any ratings you change on BGG will also update to your app.

The fine details

On BGG you can have multiple copies of a game in your collection. This is reflected in BG Stats by the different Game Copies of the game. Each ‘collection item’ on BGG is a separate Game Copy in BG Stats. You can see the list of game copies when you edit the collection for a game, or open the Quick collection popup from the game’s overview screen.

Just like on BGG you can set a different rating on each Game copy in BG Stats as well. Usually you would do this on just one copy though. The rating of the first rated copy in the list is used as your overall personal rating for that game (just like on BGG).

Advanced settings

By default, if you add a rating on BGG to a game you don’t have in BG Stats yet, the game will be added to BG Stats. This also happens if you add any other collection information to a game on BGG, like a comment, or private info.

If you don’t want those games to appear in BG Stats, enable the following setting:
Settings –> BoardGameGeek –> Collection sync settings –>”Limit adding Games to the app”.

Games will then only be added to BG Stats if the game has a Collection Status (like Owned, Wishlist, etc.).
So if you only add a rating or comment on BGG the game will not automatically be added to BG Stats.
If later on you do give a game a collection status on BGG, it will appear in the app at that point, including that rating and/or comment.
Of course you can add the game manually to BG Stats, and the rating and comment will be kept in sync and will appear in the app.

Disable the Limit adding Games to the app if you do want all games with any collection status to appear in the app. Then, to import any missing games due to this setting, tap the “Check for changes…” button to update your collection in the app.