Home Computing Weekly


Spectadraw 2
By Bryan S. McAlley
Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #37

The aim of this program is to give you around 30 per cent more chance of forecasting football matches which will produce a draw, to boost your chances of winning the pools. As far as I can see, from reading the manual and examining the listing, this is done statistically.

The program was supplied with a four-page booklet and I followed the instructions meticulously. It took me three hours to set up the program and then it crashed - I think a misplaced bracket at line 4140 was to blame, at least on my copy. But it there is one error...

At last, using an alternative entry method, I had the program working. I used David Nowotnik's forecasting program, published in HCW26, for comparison and a random selection as a control. The week I used for my experiment produced 14 draws - all three systems forecast four correct draws.

Easy to use, but time-consuming. Fairly clear screen displays, although I would have liked to have the last two teams entered displayed when creating the match list.

But as this price, I would stick to the birthday method.

R.E.

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