Jack OverbyinThe StartupGolf Tournament SimulationsLast week, I gave an overview of PGA Tour’s ShotTrack and how they used it to measure the Strokes Gained metric. Now, we’re going to use…Jan 24, 20212Jan 24, 20212
Jack OverbyStrokes Gained: The Best Way to Analyze Golfing PerformanceWrite about what you love. Writing can be a painful, laborious exercise, so if I were to attempt to prattle on for 1000 or so words about…Jan 18, 2021Jan 18, 2021
Jack OverbyinLevel Up CodingWriting Code in AssemblySo far, almost all the code featured in my weekly Medium articles has been written in JavaScript. There are several reasons for this…Jan 11, 2021Jan 11, 2021
Jack OverbyNFL Playoff PredictionsI am, almost against my will, a big NFL fan. I vow to myself at the start of each year that my Sunday ritual of watching football from…Jan 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021
Jack OverbyScrabble in ReactThe other day, I wrote a few functions to handle the word search functions of a Scrabble rack: given seven letters and a dictionary of…Dec 27, 20201Dec 27, 20201
Jack OverbyBasic Scrabble Word SearchScrabble is, without a doubt, my all-time favorite board game. For me, it goes beyond mere fun and games; I’m actually, believe it or not…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
Jack OverbyA Cribbage SimulatorCribbage is the most popular card game amongst my family members- it’s pretty much the only game we play with any regularity these days…Dec 14, 2020Dec 14, 2020
Jack OverbyReact TetrisLast week, I did a very simple implementation of Tetris that caused Xs and Os to appear on the screen, with basic logic to handle…Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020
Jack OverbyTetris RulesI grew up in a video-game-deprived household. I received my first console until I was nearly 16 years old: a joint Christmas gift to my…Nov 29, 2020Nov 29, 2020
Jack OverbyAnother Baseball Simulator… in Python!Two weeks ago, I did a little bit of web scraping, getting data from a simple table. Last week, I created a baseball simulator in…Nov 23, 2020Nov 23, 2020
