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Average Points Per Turn (PPT) - the Scrabble statistic! When I meet someone, and it comes out we're both Scrabble players, the next thing I usually hear is, 'How many points do you score in a game?' Then I find myself explaining once again that points per game is not a very telling statistic under the best of circumstances, and in the case of someone like me who plays a mix of two-, three- and four-person games, is completely worthless. The Scrabble statistic that always does the job is average Points Per Turn (PPT), and why the Scrabble world has not embraced it ranks up with the great mysteries of the universe. Just as your batting average in baseball tells how likely you are to make a hit in any trip to the plate, your PPT in Scrabble tells how many points you're likely to score on any turn. As good as the analogy is, there's a profound difference.

How many turns does it take to complete the average scrabble game? Top level average is about 12 turns each (35 pts/turn).

In baseball, batting average tells only part of the story. One player may bat.320 hitting mostly singles; another may have the same average with a goodly number of doubles and home runs mixed in.

Then again, a player may have a stellar batting average, but be a very weak fielder or runner. In Scrabble, your Points Per Turn average is everything. To understand why I say this, lets return to the more familiar Points Per Game statistic. Besides being a very coarse statistic, it's hardly interesting because the total points that can be scored is more or less limited regardless of how good you get. Think about it: a Scrabble game always uses up the same tiles on the same board with the same pattern of premium squares.

That yielded about 620 points per game back in the days of the first OSPD. (It would be somewhat greater now with the addition of QI, QAT, ZA, etc.

Little Big Planet 2 Psp Iso on this page. I don't have data to work with for play with OSPD4.) Two novice players may take 21 turns to get there, while better players may take only 16. But they end up at the same spot. Heck, if two chickens could be taught to kick Scrabble tiles onto a Scrabble board, they would score in the same ballpark.