// simulates each card in _hand in a wide variety of tricks and returns a win count for each card
private Dictionary <Card, int> SimulateRound(Card trumpCard, int playerCount, int simCount)
{
Dictionary <Card, int> winsByCard = _hand.Aggregate(new Dictionary <Card, int>(), (acc, card) => { acc[card] = 0; return(acc); });
int simsPerTrick = 1;
int simsPerPlayPos = simCount / (simsPerTrick * playerCount);
var allKnownCards = new List <Card>(_hand);
allKnownCards.Add(trumpCard);
var remainingCards = Deck.GetDeckComplement(allKnownCards);
// iterate through each possible play position and simulate each card in _hand being played
for (int playPos = 0; playPos < playerCount; playPos++)
{
// simulate simPerPlayPos number of tricks for each play position
for (int simNumber = 0; simNumber < simsPerPlayPos; simNumber++)
{
// single trick simulation:
// because SimulateTrick simulates an in-progress trick to completion,
// a random trick with cards played must be built out before simulateTrick can be called
var curSimTrick = new TrickContext(1 /*trick context*/);
var curSimRemainingCards = new List <Card>(remainingCards);
// for each sim, generate a random set of cardsPlayed by other players up to simPlayPos
// this means that if the current playPosition is 2, cards played for positions 0 and 1 need to be generated before the trick is simulated
for (int curSimPlayPos = 0; curSimPlayPos < playPos; curSimPlayPos++)
{
var randHand = takeRandomCardsFromList(curSimRemainingCards, _hand.Count);
var playableCards = CardUtils.GetPlayableCards(randHand, curSimTrick.LeadingSuite);
curSimTrick.CardsPlayed.Add(playableCards[_rand.Next() % playableCards.Count()]);
}
var curSimWinsByCard = SimulateTrick(curSimTrick, curSimRemainingCards, trumpCard.Suite, playerCount, simsPerTrick);
// using the results from the current trick simulation, update the overall winsByCard
foreach (var cardWinPair in curSimWinsByCard)
{
winsByCard[cardWinPair.Key] += cardWinPair.Value;
}
}
}
return(winsByCard);
}
// simulates playing each card in _hand against an in-progress trick, plays random cards to finish and score the trick
// returns a dictionary of cards in _hand to number of wins
// @param hiddenCards refers to the cards in the deck that could potentialy be played by other players
private Dictionary <Card, int> SimulateTrick(TrickContext trick, List <Card> hiddenCards, CardSuite trumpSuite, int playerCount, int simCount)
{
var playableCards = CardUtils.GetPlayableCards(_hand, trick.LeadingSuite);
Dictionary <Card, int> winsByCard = playableCards.Aggregate(new Dictionary <Card, int>(), (acc, card) => { acc[card] = 0; return(acc); });
for (int i = 0; i < simCount; i++)
{
foreach (var card in playableCards)
{
var curSimRemainingCards = new List <Card>(hiddenCards);
var simPlayedCards = new List <Card>(trick.CardsPlayed);
simPlayedCards.Add(card);
// each remaining player plays a random card from a randomly generated hand
for (int j = simPlayedCards.Count(); j < playerCount; j++)
{
// rand hand selected from the remaining cards specific to this simulation
var randHand = takeRandomCardsFromList(curSimRemainingCards, _hand.Count());
var playableCardsFromRandHand = CardUtils.GetPlayableCards(randHand, trick.LeadingSuite);
simPlayedCards.Add(playableCardsFromRandHand[_rand.Next() % playableCardsFromRandHand.Count()]);
}
var winningCard = CardUtils.CalcWinningCard(simPlayedCards, trumpSuite, trick.LeadingSuite);
if (card.Equals(winningCard))
{
winsByCard[card]++;
}
}
}
return(winsByCard);
//Dictionary<Card, double> winPercentagesByCard = new Dictionary<Card, double>();
//foreach(var winCardPair in winsByCard)
//{
// double winPctg = winCardPair.Value * 1.0 / SIMULATION_COUNT;
// winPercentagesByCard[winCardPair.Key] = winPctg;
//}
//return winPercentagesByCard;
}