Methods and system for predicting duration of multi-player game session

A method for generating game duration metrics, comprising:

• assembling a gaming session for a game, the gaming session identifies a first player and one or more other players;
• accessing a database that includes a historical duration metric for playing the game by the first player and at least one of the one or more other players;
• accessing contextual data related to the gaming session to be played by the first player and at least one of the other players;
• generating a prediction of time metrics for the first player and at least one of the one or more other players, the predicted time metrics providing an estimated duration time for play of the gaming session;
• and
• executing the gaming session for the first player and at least one of the one or more other players, the estimated duration time for play of the gaming session being updated periodically as the gaming session is progressed by the first player and at least one of the one or more other players.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions for generating game duration metrics, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer system causes the one or more processors to carry out operations of:

• assembling a gaming session for a game, the gaming session identifies a first player and a second player;
• accessing a database that includes a historical duration metric for playing the game by each of the first player and the second player;
• accessing contextual data related to the gaming session to be played by the first player and the second player;
• generating a prediction of time metrics for the first player and the second player, the predicted time metrics providing an estimated duration time for play of the gaming session;
• and
• executing the gaming session for the first player and the second player, the estimated duration time for play of the gaming session being updated periodically as the gaming session is progressed by the first player and the second player.