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Not enough history yet to rank anything. Here is exactly what the score does, what it needs, and when it starts.
There is no ranking on this page yet, and that is deliberate
Hourly collection has produced 8.5 hours of history across 4 completed runs. Of the 874 games currently above the 500-player floor, 0 have a usable 24-hour baseline and 0 have a seven-day one. The score needs at least 200 games with a baseline before a z-score across them means anything, and it has neither.
We could put a list here anyway. Ordering the games by whatever change the last few hours happen to show would produce fifty rows that look exactly like a real chart, and almost nobody would check. It would also be close to meaningless: over a window of hours, the dominant signal is the time of day, so the ranking would largely be measuring which games happen to have audiences in the timezone that just woke up.
So instead: a provisional ranking becomes possible around 18 Aug 2026, 08:43 UTC, once 24-hour baselines exist for enough games, and the full four-term score around 24 Aug 2026, 08:43 UTC, once there is a week of history behind each game. Neither needs a deployment or a backfill — the page checks what the data can support every time it rebuilds and switches itself on. In the meantime, the most played chart needs no history at all and is accurate right now, and the gains chart works over the longest window the readings genuinely support.
Hourly player-count collection began , which is 8.5 hours ago across 4 completed runs. We have no readings from before that date and do not estimate any, so nothing here describes a period we did not measure. This page changes what it claims based on what the readings can carry, automatically.
The scoring formula, in full
Nothing here is secret, and publishing it is partly a way of inviting the argument. A game qualifies if it currently holds at least 500 concurrent players and has been tracked for at least seven days. For every qualifying game we compute four figures:
1. The 24-hour change, as a percentage of the game’s own player count, against the newest reading at or before the 24-hour mark. Weight: 0.45. This is the main term, because a day is the shortest period over which the daily cycle roughly cancels itself out.
2. The 7-day change, on the same basis. Weight: 0.30. This is what separates a game that is genuinely climbing from one having a good Tuesday.
3. Acceleration — the 24-hour rate minus one seventh of the 7-day rate. Weight: 0.15. Positive means the game is gaining faster now than it has been on average across the week, which is the difference between a rise that is continuing and one that is running out. This term is the reason a decaying spike drops off the chart quickly rather than coasting on last week’s numbers.
4. Proximity to its highest tracked count — current players as a share of the largest figure we have ever recorded for that game. Weight: 0.10. A game breaking into new territory is a different event from one recovering a third of the way back to where it was. This is deliberately the smallest weight, because it is the term most distorted by a short record.
All four are then converted to z-scores across the qualifying set for that day, and combined at the weights above into a velocity figure. The final score is that velocity multiplied by the base-ten logarithm of the current player count.
Two things we changed about this formula, and why
The shape above came from an earlier design, and two parts of it did not survive contact with the arithmetic.
Every term is standardised, not just the first two. The original converted the two percentage changes to z-scores but left acceleration and peak proximity as raw values. Those live on completely different scales: a z-score is unbounded with a standard deviation of one and routinely reaches plus or minus two, while peak proximity is a ratio between zero and one. Weighted at 0.10, a term that can never exceed one contributes at most 0.10 to a total whose first term swings across roughly 1.8. The weights were therefore describing an influence the terms did not have, and peak proximity was in effect switched off. Standardising all four makes the published weights true.
Only positive momentum is ranked. Multiplying velocity by the log of the player count behaves correctly while velocity is positive — a 20% rise on a million players outranks the same rise on six hundred, which is what anyone would want. Below zero it inverts: a velocity of −2 multiplied by a larger logarithm produces a more negative score, so the largest collapse sorts as the least notable event on the list. Rather than patch the sign, games at or below zero velocity are dropped. A game losing players is not trending, and it has a chart of its own.
There is one further guard. Because z-scores are relative, they will always produce a “top of the list” even on a day when nothing whatsoever happened. So a game must also be up in absolute terms and be beating the median qualifying game before it can appear. On a genuinely flat day, this chart is allowed to be short.
What the score cannot do
It cannot tell a durable rise from an event spike on the day it happens. Both look identical over 24 hours; only the acceleration term, reading across a week, begins to separate them, and it does so after the fact rather than in advance.
It cannot see a game we do not track. Our catalogue covers games holding a meaningful live player base, so a genuine breakout starts registering once it crosses into that set — which means the very earliest phase of a new hit is invisible here, and any site claiming otherwise is guessing.
It cannot distinguish players from attention. Advertised traffic, a viral video and organic word of mouth all deposit real players in a game and all score the same. Over a longer record the decay rates differ sharply, which is the useful part — but that requires the history this dataset is still accumulating.
And it cannot survive a broken pipeline quietly. A missed collection run makes a gradual move look like a step change, and a Roblox-side outage makes the recovery afterwards read as a surge. Failed requests are stored separately rather than as zeroes, which prevents the worst of it, but a suppressed count that Roblox reported in earnest is one we have no way to challenge.
Questions about these charts
Movement relative to everything else, weighted by size rather than decided by it. A game with two million players is not trending simply for being enormous — it has to be moving. A game of six hundred that doubles is moving, but the score discounts it against a game of sixty thousand doing the same, because the second event involves a hundred times more people changing their minds. The score multiplies a momentum figure by the logarithm of the current player count, which is the compromise: size matters, but only logarithmically.
Because three of the four things the score measures are comparisons against a baseline, and a game we started watching yesterday has no baseline. Its 7-day change is undefined and its acceleration — today's rate against the week's average rate — cannot be computed at all. Scoring it anyway would mean silently substituting a shorter period and calling it a week, which is the specific thing this site refuses to do.
Removing the weather. Roblox concurrency swings enormously with the time of day and the day of the week, and on a Saturday evening nearly every game on the platform is up. A chart built on raw percentages would fill with games that did nothing except exist during a busy hour. A z-score expresses each game's move in terms of how unusual it was compared with what every other qualifying game did over the identical window, so the shared component cancels and only the game-specific part survives.
Because a trending list is a claim about momentum, and momentum cannot be read from two data points. A percentage change needs two readings; a rate of change needs three; a claim that something is accelerating needs considerably more, plus a distribution of other games to compare against. When the readings do not support that, this page shows the method and no ranking. An ordered list of games presented with the same confidence as a real one, built from a few hours of data, would be worse than an empty page.
Concurrency varies randomly by roughly the square root of the count, which at 20 players is about 22% and at 500 is about 4.5%. Below the floor, the percentages that feed the score are mostly measuring that randomness. The floor also disposes of the classic failure of every growth ranking: a game going from 2 players to 20 is up 900% and would otherwise sit permanently at the top having achieved nothing.
No, and the page says "highest tracked" everywhere for that reason. We hold no data from before our collection started, so we cannot know what a game peaked at in 2023 and will not guess. The term means the highest value we ourselves have recorded. Early on that is a weak signal — a game only has to beat a handful of its own readings — which is one reason the term carries the smallest weight in the formula and is switched off entirely while the dataset is young.
Advertising a game does put real players in it, and real players are what this measures, so paid traffic will register as momentum. That is not a flaw so much as a limit on interpretation: this chart measures attention, and attention can be purchased. What it will do over a longer history is show you how fast that attention drains away afterwards, which is the part money cannot fake.
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