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…7 min read·Jan 24, 2021--2--2
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…6 min read·Jan 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…4 min read·Jan 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…7 min read·Jan 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…4 min read·Dec 27, 2020----
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…7 min read·Dec 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…6 min read·Dec 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…3 min read·Dec 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…6 min read·Nov 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…6 min read·Nov 23, 2020----