A question came up on the Scrabble LiveJournal group about the opening rack AAGIRSS. I performed a 2-ply sim and asked Championship Player for the choices, inputting the rack as AAGIRSS, and received these results: 8D SAIGA (56.03%/32.9) 8H AGRIAS (53.65%/27.2) 8G AGRIAS (53.63%/27.3) 8G SAGA (53.56%/27.3) 8H AGRIA (53.49%/27.1) 8G GAS (53.45%/27.1) 8G SAG (53.37%/26.9) 8F SAIGA (53.33%/26.6) 8E AGRIAS (53.23%/26.5) 8C AGRIAS (53.15%/26.1) A later question about the relative merits of GAS and SAG caused me to re-run the sim. I did everything the same, except I typed in the rack as SAGRIAS, and received these results: 8H AGRIA (55.08%/30.9) 8D SAIGA (54.68%/29.8) 8H AGRIAS (54.67%/29.6) 8G SAIGA (54.26%/28.8) 8G AGRIAS (54.03%/28.2) 8H AGS (53.95%/28.3) 8F SAIGA (53.58%/27.4) 8C AGRIAS (53.50%/27.1) 8H SAIGA (53.35%/26.9) 8F AGAS (53.30%/26.8)
I repeated the sim multiple times with each rack, always getting the same (respective) results. It appears that the order of letters on the rack, at least in this isolated case, is impacting the sim (as well as win percentages and valuation). Does anyone know why that would be happening? FYI, I am running Quackle 0.95 in a Windows XP environment, in case that matters. Dallas Johnson
