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Probabilities in PHP

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:46 pm
by jefepwnzer
I'm developing a basic baseball application where I'm going to match a pitcher vs. a hitter and the only answer I want to know is if the result of the matchup is a hit, a walk, a strikeout or a fly out/ground out. Basically I want to take the sum of the pitchers attributes, compare it to the sum of the hitters attributes and establish a probability of a hit, walk, etc occurring.


i.e. in a very basic sense if the sum of the pitchers attributes is 90 and the sum of the hitters attributes is 80 I want to give the hitter a 25% chance of getting a HIT and a 75% chance of making an OUT.

Is this possible with PHP?

I have a few books on PHP but none cover this type of thing.

Re: Probabilities in PHP

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:48 pm
by onion2k
It's just maths, so yeah, it's entirely possible with PHP.