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Re: Modeling of NFL game results
Posted:
Dec 28, 2012 5:32 AM
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Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net> writes:
> Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net> writes:
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> [snip]
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>> I decided to rate each team with a single number, such that the
>> probability that a team rated "r1" has a probability beating a team
>> rated "r2" is given by:
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>> p = CDF[NormalDistribution[], r1-r2];
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> Hmmm. I guess my code actually implements "r2-r1" instead of "r1-r2".
> It doesn't matter, except one way high ratings are better than low
> ratings, and the other is vice versa.
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>> filename="matrix.m";
>> prec;
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> I don't know how this line got shortened. My original has "prec".
Now I know how this got shortened. My original has "prec" followed by
an equal sign followed by the number 20. Some software somewhere
interpreted this as a MIME space indicator. Then at some later point
the space got removed.
Scott
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Scott Hemphill hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu
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