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<blockquote data-quote="Sean DonCarlos" data-source="post: 297448" data-attributes="member: 152"><p>In general, yes, although of course players of greater skill will be able to take better advantage of any lucky breaks they happen to experience and therefore will have greater high scores than less skilled players. </p><p></p><p>There is a LOT of variance in pinball. Even in PAPA finals, we see world-class players have abysmal games, games that even someone like myself would be embarrassed to have. Conversely, even pinball duffers like myself occasionally put up amazing scores on difficult tables. And there is also a tendency for scores to start increasing nonlinearly in a good game. Jackpot values start rising, wizard mode scoring is often pretty rapid (a successful Rule the Universe in AFM is 10 billion points by itself, which is more than twice my current high score on AFM), etc. Hence the distribution of scores: most times you will score pretty low, a few times you will score moderately well, but everyone once in a while you'll blow the coin door off.</p><p></p><p>Probably the best way to think of it is that your lifetime high score is a record of what you potentially could do next game; your median score is a record of what you are likely to do next game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sean DonCarlos, post: 297448, member: 152"] In general, yes, although of course players of greater skill will be able to take better advantage of any lucky breaks they happen to experience and therefore will have greater high scores than less skilled players. There is a LOT of variance in pinball. Even in PAPA finals, we see world-class players have abysmal games, games that even someone like myself would be embarrassed to have. Conversely, even pinball duffers like myself occasionally put up amazing scores on difficult tables. And there is also a tendency for scores to start increasing nonlinearly in a good game. Jackpot values start rising, wizard mode scoring is often pretty rapid (a successful Rule the Universe in AFM is 10 billion points by itself, which is more than twice my current high score on AFM), etc. Hence the distribution of scores: most times you will score pretty low, a few times you will score moderately well, but everyone once in a while you'll blow the coin door off. Probably the best way to think of it is that your lifetime high score is a record of what you potentially could do next game; your median score is a record of what you are likely to do next game. [/QUOTE]
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