October 16, 2011

Website for Stats?

An online stats feature is perhaps the #1 indication of a quality trivia room. Most trivia rooms have a rudimentary stats system where you type !myscore or something like that to see how you're going, or !top10 to see who the TrivGods are, but very few trivia rooms have a website facility for viewing scores and ranks in real-time (or at the end of each month).


PRO:

Players don't have to waste time with their own score-sheets in order to sort out where they are in relation to others, and the game is not interrupted umpteen times by players wanting the scores of other players.

With web stats you get to recognize players who don't play in your timezone, and find players you never knew existed!

You feel part of something big and worthwhile. It promotes community spirit and healthy competition.

You don't have to be in the trivia room to see your stats -- you can take a quick look at the website stats while you're at work to see who has overtaken you while you were sleeping!


CON:

Some website stats show far more information about you than your trivia score - e.g #trivia at OperaNet shows your country of origin as well as your chat with other players!


Mainly, though, the websites that a lot of trivia rooms advertise for viewing stats are defunct and have been so for many years.

If a trivia room advertises something that does not exist, you get to wonder.... is anyone at home?

Some websites turn out to be advertising for the channel, or have player bios, and do not, in fact, display any scoring statistics whatsoever. If you definitely want online stats, you need to trawl through the list to check that the feature exists and is up-to-date.


See List of IRC trivia rooms with Web Stats




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