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24-06-2002, 03:07
Posted by Joe Johnson at 03/31/2001 1:25 AM EST
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Well...
I am off to FL by way of a stop at the In-Laws in GA.
I am going to keep busy during the drive (when my wife
is driving and the kids are not screaming ;-) by trying
to formulate a DrJoeIndex for each team at the Nationals.
The DrJoeIndex would go something like this:
Calculate every team's average score at a regional
(already done).
Calculate every team's standard deviation for their
scores at each regional (easily done).
The DrJoeIndex is then calculated as follows:
The sum over all Matches of
The sum over all partners of
(the score for that match - the partner's average
score) / the partner's standard deviation
Once I have each team's DrJoeIndex, I will rank
calculate DrJoesRank based on the index.
The idea behind the DrJoeIndex is to calculate the aid
(or anti-aid) a team gave to the alliance by giving a
team more points for helping alliance partners beat
their average while taking points away for holding
alliance partners below their average.
I am not seriously considering this a real method of
calculating a team's rank at a competition, but I am
curious about how to calculate a team's "true"
contribution to the alliance.
I am sure that everyone can think of examples where teams
that seem good are ranked low as well as examples teams
that seem so-so were ranked near the top.
I am interested to see if
there is some method of teasing out this kind of thing
from the data.
It will be a fun way to pass the time in any case.
Stop by the pits in FL to see if I have found any
diamonds in the rough (if they and you are not in Curie
Div. I may even name names! ;-)
See you in FL.
Joe J.
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Well...
I am off to FL by way of a stop at the In-Laws in GA.
I am going to keep busy during the drive (when my wife
is driving and the kids are not screaming ;-) by trying
to formulate a DrJoeIndex for each team at the Nationals.
The DrJoeIndex would go something like this:
Calculate every team's average score at a regional
(already done).
Calculate every team's standard deviation for their
scores at each regional (easily done).
The DrJoeIndex is then calculated as follows:
The sum over all Matches of
The sum over all partners of
(the score for that match - the partner's average
score) / the partner's standard deviation
Once I have each team's DrJoeIndex, I will rank
calculate DrJoesRank based on the index.
The idea behind the DrJoeIndex is to calculate the aid
(or anti-aid) a team gave to the alliance by giving a
team more points for helping alliance partners beat
their average while taking points away for holding
alliance partners below their average.
I am not seriously considering this a real method of
calculating a team's rank at a competition, but I am
curious about how to calculate a team's "true"
contribution to the alliance.
I am sure that everyone can think of examples where teams
that seem good are ranked low as well as examples teams
that seem so-so were ranked near the top.
I am interested to see if
there is some method of teasing out this kind of thing
from the data.
It will be a fun way to pass the time in any case.
Stop by the pits in FL to see if I have found any
diamonds in the rough (if they and you are not in Curie
Div. I may even name names! ;-)
See you in FL.
Joe J.