Alright folks, lemme tell ya ’bout my little coding adventure today. I was messing around, trying to see what I could whip up, and landed on trying to simulate a simple baseball game: Orioles vs Cubs. Sounds easy, right? Well, here’s the lowdown.
First thing I did was define some basic data structures. I’m talking like, players, teams, and a game. Each player had stats like batting average, maybe a power number. Each team was just a list of players. The game itself, well, that was where the fun started.
Next, I set up the game. Got the Orioles and Cubs rosters ready, picked a starting pitcher for each team (totally random, just grabbed the first player in their list), and decided on the number of innings – let’s say nine, like a real game.
Then came the core part: simulating each at-bat. This was where I spent most of my time. I basically wrote a function that took a batter and a pitcher, and based on their stats, randomly determined the outcome. Was it a hit? A strikeout? A walk? I used some simple probability based on batting average and some made-up “pitching effectiveness” score. It’s all very rough, mind you.
So, inside that at-bat function, I had a bunch of if-else statements. If the batter’s batting average was higher than a random number, I’d say it’s a hit. Then, I had another random number generator to determine what kind of hit: single, double, triple, home run. Again, all based on some made-up probabilities.
After each at-bat, I had to update the game state. Add the runs, advance runners on base, count the outs. It got a little messy trying to keep track of all that, but I managed. I even added a little thing to show the current score and inning after each at-bat, just so I could see what was happening.
It was a bit clunky, but eventually, I got the whole nine innings to play out. The results? Well, the Orioles won, 5-3. Don’t ask me about the details, it was all random chance based on some goofy probabilities. But hey, it was fun to watch unfold.
What I learned? Simulating even a simple thing like a baseball game is more complicated than you think! You gotta keep track of a lot of little details. Plus, my code is probably a mess. But it was a good exercise, and I might try to clean it up and add more features later. Maybe even try to get some real stats in there. Who knows?
That’s it for my little Orioles vs Cubs coding escapade. Hope you enjoyed the story!
