On Nov 28, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Bob Showalter wrote:

> The core of my solution is at:
>
>   http://users.adelphia.net/~showaltb/rubyquiz/56/derby.rb
>
> It assigns cars by computing a "weight" factor for each car based  
> on the  following criteria:
>
>   a) How many times has the car been assigned to this lane?
>   b) How many times has the car been matched up against the opponents
>      already slotted to this heat?
>   c) How long has it been since the car was last scheduled to a heat?
>
> The weight factors act as a bias against selecting a car.

I dig any Ruby program with a class called ChaoticChart!  Seriously,  
this is a very interesting solution to read.  Must by why you scared  
all the others off.  You just can't compete with true chaos.  ;)

James Edward Gray II