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Average game and match length From:   JP White Address:   jpwhite3@bellsouth.net Date:   28 December 2000 Subject:   Re: average number of moves? Forum:   rec.games.backgammon Google:   3A4BFB44.7D847390@bellsouth.net I just found an interesting feature in Frank Bergers BgBlitz. It gives you the ability to analyze the games in a match database. It reports the following for one of it's databases (the largest one of course). Average Number of Moves in a Game ================================= All Games : 20.90 (9423 games) 1 Pt Games : 27.42 ( 342 games) Maximum Number of Moves in a Game ================================= All Games : 85 moves 1 Pt Games : 68 moves Total Matches 2806 Matchlength Avg. Games Total Matches ============================================ 1 1.00 350 2 1.03 59 3 2.35 634 4 2.75 12 5 3.83 1184 6 4.00 1 7 5.02 492 8 6.00 1 9 7.24 42 11 7.81 31 Hope this helps. JP -- JP White mailto:jpwhite3@bellsouth.net   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

Probability and Statistics

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