A must for all pub athletes?
With the winter olympics just around the corner “athletes” of all persuasions are using technology to aid their training.
Enjoy!
Amplify’d from www.wired.com
Darts for Geeks: Statistician Cracks the Game’s Secrets
Ryan Tibshirani couldn’t hit a bull’s-eye if his PhD depended on it. Last fall his roommate nailed up a dartboard and proceeded to trounce him game after game — even with his eyes closed. So Tibshirani
did what any good geek would do: The Stanford statistics student used a Gaussian model to calculate where he should aim to maximize his points in a game of High Score.
To find his own sweet spot, Tibshirani launched 50 darts at the bull’s-eye and ran his scores through an algorithm that computes a rank from 0 (flawless) to 100 (hopeless). He then wrote software to translate that number into a heat map of the board, highlighting areas that are his rank’s best bets.
Tibshirani has put his app online for pub athletes everywhere.Read more at www.wired.com
