Lab notes

Articles built from what this site knows and nobody else has: 303 scored positions with written reasons, and a game engine that plays padel points thousands of times. Not summaries of other articles. Findings.

2026-09-20

We scored 303 padel positions. Attacking was the right answer in 16 of them.

Every position in the Lab's bank has one right call and up to three wrong ones, each with a written reason.

2026-09-20

The lob is the best shot in padel and the most overused. Both are true. Here is the line between them.

In the Lab's bank the lob is the right answer 28 times and the tempting wrong answer 47 times.

2026-09-20

We built a padel engine to play our puzzles. It has opinions about the smash we did not expect.

The Rally is a small physics engine: a ball with gravity, a 20 by 10 court with 3 metres of glass and a metre of mesh above it, four players with reactions and speeds and error, and a coach who plays every option in his head before you choose.