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Power Rankings

By Dash
5/08/2017 6:50 pm
I was just curious how the Power Rankings are calculated? what does the game look at in teams when finally deciding who goes where?

Thanks

Re: Power Rankings

By WarEagle
5/08/2017 9:39 pm
The power rankings have never made any logical sense.

I wouldn't waste time trying to figure them out.

Re: Power Rankings

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
5/09/2017 8:38 am
The algorithm finds a 'score' for each team, and goes through all the games in the season (0.4.1 includes the previous season, dropping 2 games each week, until it gets to week 8). It uses an Excel-solver-like algorithm to solve this score so that the sum of the error is as low as possible.

The algorithm comes from this book: http://amzn.to/1QNLgQh

Re: Power Rankings

By Dash
5/09/2017 2:28 pm
jdavidbakr wrote:
The algorithm finds a 'score' for each team, and goes through all the games in the season (0.4.1 includes the previous season, dropping 2 games each week, until it gets to week 8). It uses an Excel-solver-like algorithm to solve this score so that the sum of the error is as low as possible.

The algorithm comes from this book: http://amzn.to/1QNLgQh


Thanks for this answer. very informative!