A Single-Site Case Study of a Board-Game Club's Season Under a Published Rank Trajectory, and What Removing It Failed to Undo
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities embeds with a Tuesday-night board-game club for a fourteen-week season after its convenor begins publishing a projected rank trajectory alongside the live ladder, finding opponent-avoidance behaviour organised around the projection rose to 41% before the projection's three-week extrapolation could plausibly be informative, and held statistically unchanged after the convenor withdrew the projection.
| Authors | Verity Marris , Anneke Tolan , Ingrid Vasseur |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.12yh5k |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 1 output |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_12yh5k,
author = {Verity Marris and Anneke Tolan and Ingrid Vasseur},
title = {Ranked to Avoid: A Single-Site Case Study of a Board-Game Club's Season Under a Published Rank Trajectory, and What Removing It Failed to Undo},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.12yh5k},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-single-site-case-12yh5k/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}