Trying to loop a for loop multiple times

Question

Hope this question makes sense but essentially here is the issue I am having. I am tasked to create a program that takes someone's free throw shooting percentage as an input then simulates 5 games where they attempt to shoot 10 free throws each game. As well as have a summary afterward showing things like best game, worst game, total made through all games, and average free throw percentage.

I currently have up to the point where I am trying to make my simulated game run multiple times but cant seem to figure it out. This is what I have so far: import java.util.*;

public class FreeThrow {
    public static int simulate(int input){
        int i;
        int j;
        int count = 0;

        for (j = 1; j < 6; j++){
            System.out.println("Game " + j + ":");      
            for(i = 0;i < 10; i++){
                int shot = (int)(Math.random()*101)-1;
                if (shot > input){
                    System.out.print("OUT ");//shot missed
                } else {
                    System.out.print("IN ");//shot made
                    count++;
                }
            }
            //prints the number of free throws made per game out of 10
            System.out.print("\nFree throws made: " + count + " out of 10.");
            return i;
        }
        return j;
    }
    public static void main (String[] args){
        //asks for user input to detemine player free throw percentage
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter Player's Free Throw Percentage: ");
        int input = scan.nextInt();

        simulate(input);

    }
}

As you can see I currently have a for loop inside a for loop. I did this to try to make the simulated game loop loop itself again while adding the "Game 1:" line that would display above and show what game each was. It works perfectly for just one Game. I have it looking exactly like it should. As well here is an example of what the professor wants it to look like:Link To Image Any sort of insight on what I might be doing wrong or suggestions on how to get it to do what I would like would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I've added to your code so there is now a percentage made and a total, you pretty much had it correct, just had to make a small change so that count could be carried and displayed. If you want to have a best / worst game, you'd need to create two new variables, and update them for each game if the threshold was 1) beaten for best game, and 2) lower for worst game.

If you get stuck with this let me know, and i'll give you a hand. Should be easy enough for you to implement with what you currently know.

The issue was that you were returning i when it was not necessary either. That has been ameneded in this:

public class freeThrow {

private static int count;

    public static int simulate(int input){
        int i;
        int j;


        for (j = 1; j < 6; j++){
            System.out.println("Game " + j + ":");
            for(i = 0;i < 10; i++){
                int shot = (int)(Math.random()*101)-1;
                if (shot > input){
                    System.out.print("OUT ");//shot missed
                } else {
                    System.out.print("IN ");//shot made
                    count++;
                }
            }

            //prints the number of free throws made per game out of 10
            System.out.println("\nFree throws made: " + count + " out of 10.");
        }
        return j;
    }

    public static int average(int count) {
        int average = count/5;
        System.out.println("\nAverage is " +  average*10 + "%");
        return average;
    }

    public static int totalShots(int count) {
        int total = count;

        System.out.println("total shots made " + total);

        return total;
    }

    public static void main (String[] args){
        //asks for user input to detemine player free throw percentage
        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Enter Player's Free Throw Percentage: ");
        int input = scan.nextInt();

        simulate(input);
        average(count);
        totalShots(count);

    }
}