I barely watched any football this past weekend.  Given that it’s the divisional round of the playoffs, this is a pretty drastic change for me from years past and totally out of line with what most of my male friends would find normal.  On its own, simply not watching football isn’t really enough to lose [...]

Two things that annoyed me this week from the sporting world, both of which revolve around knowing the rules of the sport at hand. The first comes form the Duke v. Southern Illinois basketball game on Thursday night.  During the game, Kyle Singler from duke got a steal and with a clear path to the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]