Since making his 1 millionth shot in September, my 83-year-old free-throw-shooting Godfather has picked up the pace. For the past 51 days, he's averaged nearly 500 a day.
Funny -- Tom's career rate is 92.86, which he wants to get to 93, as he moves his FTM from 1,000,000 to 1,100,000. It may be slightly more complicated, but the basic rule is that you have to increase your rate inverse to the percentage increase in sample size. So, Tom will only be increasing his sample size by 10%. To move his overall rate 0.14, he then has to increase his rate of the new sample by1.4. And, you rue his non-peak-performance 94.3 rate since the millionth-made free throw, but in fact, that's an increase of 1.4 percent. So, he's really on pace to make the goals at about the same time, and the guy is remarkably doing exactly what he needs to, whether he means to or not.
You may have to excuse more than one "reaction" comment from me to this post! (Breaking a norm).
Funny -- Tom's career rate is 92.86, which he wants to get to 93, as he moves his FTM from 1,000,000 to 1,100,000. It may be slightly more complicated, but the basic rule is that you have to increase your rate inverse to the percentage increase in sample size. So, Tom will only be increasing his sample size by 10%. To move his overall rate 0.14, he then has to increase his rate of the new sample by1.4. And, you rue his non-peak-performance 94.3 rate since the millionth-made free throw, but in fact, that's an increase of 1.4 percent. So, he's really on pace to make the goals at about the same time, and the guy is remarkably doing exactly what he needs to, whether he means to or not.
You may have to excuse more than one "reaction" comment from me to this post! (Breaking a norm).