| LastPlanet - January 18th, 2013 02:26 GMT |
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------ QUOTE from 20sDad, January 17th, 2013 20:24 GMT ------
BCS?
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Well, only to the extent that BCS also uses statistical analysis. 'course it also uses polls...
This algorithm only uses the matches. I have the reference on the algorithm on the blog in the About tab. I wrote the code. It doesn't have any special 'brownie points' for winning a tournament or for particular 'premier' tournaments or leagues. It just uses who a team plays and how many goals scored and how allowed. It does need cross-league mixing, meaning summer tournament and cup games where teams from different league meet. But Washington, it's looking like the amount of mixing in the summer is enough to get good rankings that can predict tournaments (like state cup performances). Whether that's true for CA remains to be seen. CA is much bigger than WA and has many more teams. That said, the CA leagues tend to fall out in the right order (gold above silver above bronze, etc) and the top 10 that popped out of the analysis show up on many top lists.
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