Talk:Mean Targeting

Your mileage may vary. These targeting methods are intended against opponents who make frequent heading and/or speed changes to throw off simpler prediction algorithms. As an extra step you may try multiple sample sizes to average from, or even devise a means for calibrating the sample size on the fly. - Martin Alan Pedersen

The effectiveness of these methods will vary greatly. If your opponent moves in well-defined patterns, you'll have great success with these results (unless the pattern is long or complicated). If your opponent is moving randomly or reacting to shots fired, your results will be poor. I'm using this method in one of my bots as the starting method, until my PatternMatching gun records enough and kicks in. - Speal