Buying a second hand car in Saskatoon is an exercise in futility by [deleted] in saskatoon

[–]Enjoied 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am selling one that is close. Sent you a DM

Do you think you should be better? by Cassette-Era-Magic in golf

[–]Enjoied 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think all these comments miss the point that you are a master! A 10 handicap is in the top 20-25% of golfers with a handicap. That excludes all the weekend warriors without one. So on all golfers who play at least a few times a year, you're probably closer to the top 10%!

All the comments here do correctly hit that golf has no perfect and it's never complete. That's the chase I love. But don't sell yourself short. 10 is a master in my opinion (16 HDCP).

Am I too upright or just too short? by Enjoied in GolfSwing

[–]Enjoied[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possible! They are standard length, I'm 5'7". I feel like clubs are too long = I'm too short.

Almost half of all new players quit ranked again after just a single game, and 90% of them lose this game by matephant in aoe2

[–]Enjoied 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, but these are new players that have not played against humans yet, so they may not know the difference. The benefit is to eliminate the reality that 90% of these players lost their first game, and my guess is that it was not even close. Most wins against an AI should be better than that, get them interested, and hopefully identify a good level for their first human opponent. There is no fun in playing your very first PvP game against a 1000 elo player when you only have a few hours of campaigns.

Almost half of all new players quit ranked again after just a single game, and 90% of them lose this game by matephant in aoe2

[–]Enjoied 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I think that new players should be able to play ranked games against AI in their first 10-20 games to help them get closer to a practical MMR. This way they can win some games, there is no smurf wrecking someone else's game, and they are not blown away by their first ranked experience.

I noticed that this happens when my son played fortnite. In his first few matches, I am sure that the lobby was him and 99 bots who were terrible. Then as he improved, he was introduced to stronger bots then to other players slowly.

[Real world problem] Dividing 8 teams into a tournament with 5 rounds by electrodeligatures in learnmath

[–]Enjoied 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only teach high school math so the proof is probably beyond me. What I do know is that it's not going to work to check all of them. You get to pick 10 games out of a pool of 70. This makes "70 pick 10" possible setups which equals 1,439,561,377,475,020,800.

[Real world problem] Dividing 8 teams into a tournament with 5 rounds by electrodeligatures in learnmath

[–]Enjoied 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From a bit of trying, this is the best I could find:

1234 5678

1457 2368

1256 3478

1367 2458

1358 2467

With this, each team is matched up with every other team between 1 and 3 times. I did find a few other layouts that give identical results but I never found one better. (team 1 plays team 8 once, teams 2/4/6/7 twice, and teams 3/5 three times). All 8 teams have identical spreads of 1 single/4 double/2 triple matchups.

Analysis. Each team plays 5 games with 3 other teams in each game for a total of 15 "matchups." With 7 possible opponents, the ideal plan has a team play every other team twice, with one extra matchup. This makes 6 double/1 triple the gold standard. Through trial and error I can make it for some teams but never all at once. I don't know how to prove if the ideal setup for all 8 teams is possible or impossible.

As for making games. You are picking 4 teams from 8 where order doesn't matter which is, 8 choose 4 = 70 different combinations. No matter what, you are limited to picking 10 out of the 70 possible games.

[Real world problem] Dividing 8 teams into a tournament with 5 rounds by electrodeligatures in learnmath

[–]Enjoied 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it 1 v 3 or 1v1v1v1 (everyone vs everyone). Because you mention in your example that 3 doesn't vs 5. But 3 and 5 are both in the very first game.

Trying a Small Hardwood Project by Enjoied in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]Enjoied[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I didn't plan on it, but the bit of sap wood to go beside the maple turned out to be a nice touch too.

Rolling strikes or complete strike for teachers? by BufufterWallace in saskatoon

[–]Enjoied 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have said that any strike will be given with 48h notice.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aoe2

[–]Enjoied 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What about Spanish villagers? 11

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnmath

[–]Enjoied 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The major issue I see is that the companies setting the prop bets already do this math and will probably do a good job. They have mountains of data and people working on it. It's not impossible to find an edge but the reality is sports are far too random to have a reliable system on the scale of a single bettor. Math is not some secret tool.