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copied!<p>In an online manager game (like <a href="http://www.hattrick.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hattrick</a>), I want to simulate matches between two teams.</p> <p>A team consists of 11 players. Every player has a strength value between 1 and 100. I take these strength values of the defensive players for each team and calculate the average. That's the defensive quality of a team. Then I take the strengths of the offensive players and I get the offensive quality.</p> <p>For each attack, I do the following:</p> <pre><code>$offFactor = ($attackerTeam_offensive-$defenderTeam_defensive)/max($attackerTeam_offensive, $defenderTeam_defensive); $defFactor = ($defenderTeam_defensive-$attackerTeam_offensive)/max($defenderTeam_defensive, $attackerTeam_offensive); </code></pre> <p>At the moment, I don't know why I divide it by the higher one of both values. But this formula should give you a factor for the quality of offense and defense which is needed later.</p> <p>Then I have nested conditional statements for each event which could happen. E.g.: Does the attacking team get a scoring chance?</p> <pre><code>if ((mt_rand((-10+$offAdditionalFactor-$defAdditionalFactor), 10)/10)+$offFactor >= 0) { ... // the attack succeeds </code></pre> <p>These additional factors could be tactical values for example.</p> <p>Do you think this is a good way of calculating a game? My users say that they aren't satisfied with the quality of the simulations. How can I improve them? Do you have different approaches which could give better results? Or do you think that my approach is good and I only need to adjust the values in the conditional statements and experiment a bit?</p> <p>I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance!</p>

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