Re:You call that "mathematical modelling"?! (Score 1)

Wow. If this is "mathematical modelling", then me swapping the coffee mugs out for wine glasses in my kitchen cubbard would be "advanced sphere packing analysis and optimization".

I found the title to be an overstatement as well. The designers just used simple statistics to adjust the difficulty and the article is describing it like they needed a PhD in math to figure it out.

That being said, it's still a great idea. It may seem obvious after the fact but this is probably something a lot of game companies haven't though about.