"Curveballs: I plotted my last 41 throws on an encounter screen to see if there is a pattern to curveballs."

#PokemonGO: Hi All!As the title says, I recorded my last few catches and plotted the exact points where the ball hit the Pokemon. I wanted to see if there is a pattern to the kind of throws that register a curveball. All my throws are thrown from the middle and spun clockwise.You can see the plot here: http://ift.tt/2ewBW5I you can see, for clockwise throws, balls that land to the right of the Pokemon are almost guaranteed curveballs. Near the middle, it appears most of them register as curveballs, but some don't. Balls that land to the left are rarely registered as curveballs. It appears the more to the left the ball is, the less likely it is to be registered as a curveball.The Outlier: Landed on right but didn't register as curveballIn this experiment, there is only one ball that landed to the right of the middle line but still didn't register as a curveball. I'm not sure why that is, but looking at the image I can see that the Venonat in question was moving in a manner that the ball actually hit it very slightly to the left: http://ift.tt/2iUxWkx relation to the above observation, I should mention that what matters (for clockwise throws) is not the right half of the screen, but the right half of the Pokemon. For example, if a Geodude shifts to the right, throwing a Pokeball on the Geodude's right arm will likely not register a curveball despite the fact that it is the right half of the screen. For this experiment, I didn't throw balls at Pokemon that weren't in the middle.Throwing with a different styleI also recorded 15 throws with a different angle - counterclockwise and thrown from the bottom-left instead of the middle. The results for that are similar - balls landing to the left are likelier to be curveballs and balls landing to the right are not. Plot: http://ift.tt/2ewBWCK; Clockwise throws that land on the right half of the Pokemon and counter-clockwise throws that land on the left half of the Pokemon are almost guaranteed to be curveballs.EDIT: A few people asked for examples of the throws I used, so here they are:Clockwise example: https://youtu.be/iKH3XoiQc60 Counterclockwise from bottom-left example: https://youtu.be/hpxmzZkKfLk via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2iTCyHC