Table Games Calculator

You are waiting for one tile in your full hand on the table. Your opponent then discards it… And you don’t know if you should play or not. Do you? If you choose not to call a winning discard, you’ll probably lose out on the opportunity to win on any discard until you draw another … Read more

I sit at the table with 13 tiles and I sense this hand is close to being a winner. But I don’t know what tile I am looking for. The calculator will shows me precisely what I’m looking for and how many of those tiles exist in the wall. This lets me focus on reading … Read more

You enter a tournament, lose some games you shouldn’t, and see your rating decrease. But when you look at official list, nothing has changed much. Chances are you’re on a rating floor, a safety net in the chess rating system designed to keep players numbers from crashing during a poor run. Knowing about rating floors … Read more

Early in the process, then, you’ll probably think of your rated games as less like tests of skill than a bit of a lottery. On paper you might be facing someone who looks half your strength, yet you crush them. Or maybe you’re facing someone who seems stronger, but you win. That’s okay… This is … Read more

It never feels like race at the end. It’s more like a waiting room. Every couple of hours, you pull out your phone, cross your fingers and wait for a result that’ll turn the standings in your direction. In sports, though, feelings isn’t reliable. All that remains is an honest metric: the tragic number. This … Read more

Everyone thinks, “Well, a team with a winning record should get the top seed.” It makes sense. You see a bunch of wins and losses, and it seem to say everything you need to know. But anyone who has organized a league or followed college football knows that not all win are created equal. A … Read more

Maybe you’ve heard that a team might have a misleading record because of its schedule. Maybe you’ve heard that a losing team was realy good, because it played a tough schedule. Or maybe you’ve heard that a team with a perfect record can be written off as weak, because its schedule was soft. I think … Read more