Yahtzee Data

A while back (maybe a year ago) I claimed that I was a better Yahtzee player than Rob. I claimed that while he may have flashes of brilliance, he also had moments of awfulness, and I played a steadier, solid game.

So we put it to the test, right then. We started saving our Yahtzee score cards, and posted them on the wall. After saving 4 score cards, which is 24 total games, we've declared our experiment done. I'm sure you're dying to know how it turned out! Here's the data analysis.

Rob's Scorecard Averages
#1               #2                  #3                #4
264.5          232.33          268.8           228

TOTAL AVERAGE
248.41666

Tamra's Scorecard Averages
#1               #2                  #3               #4
248.3          258.66           224             253

TOTAL AVERAGE
246

As it turns out, our average score is statistically the same.  So I was wrong.  I'm not better at Yahtzee than Rob.  Nor am I necessarily more steady, as our highs and lows show:

Rob's High Game               Tamra's High Game
402                                        425

Rob's Low Game                Tamra's Low Game
128                                        146

Yahtzees seemed to be random events, with each of us averaging well less than 1 a game.  Rob had 11 and I had 8.  Interestingly, we both had at least 2 games of 2 Yahtzees.  So if you get one Yahtzee, chances are very much increased that you'll get another in that same game.

Though I have to say that nearly as interesting as the number data is the names we chose for ourselves.

Rob's 4 Names:                                                    Tamra's 4 Names:
Yahtzee MASTER  (Hy-yah!)                                  Tamra
Robit                                                                          Tamra, the loveliest
LOSER                                                                      Winner
Robert-Smobert                                                       Tamra the Incredible

And there you have it.