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Fantasy Beatpaths

Posted on November 18th, 2008 by James

This is some of what I’ve been playing with for rankings for my fantasy league.  As I indicated in last week, I have an interest in using beatpaths for ranking teams.  I’ve also been trying out an Elo-like ranking system.  I still have a lot of experimenting to do with the K factor, but I’ve [...]

Answering the Call

Posted on November 13th, 2008 by James

I’ve been tracking a site that ranks NFL teams (among other sports) for a little while.  The Beatpath ranking system consists of graphing results of every game, removing ambiguous information, and producing a final graph.  From this graph, additional ranking information is applied and a final list of teams emerges, with the (hopefully) strongest teams [...]