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Originally Posted by Ether
Do you just want to do the computation, or do you want to learn the underlying mathematics?
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Both, if available.
I'd like to explain the math to the kids (at a high level at least) which I think I can do from what I recall reading about it months ago. (Assume each team always contributes same points toward each match total, then come up with these per team values that best approximate actual match scores.)
Then I'd like to calculate it using an 'easy to use' tool. I don't think the kids could start from the underlying math explanation and do it themselves, and they don't really have the time to invest in that excercise (though I may be surprised about that)
I have 73 teams, up to 32 matches at each of 5 tournaments-- so ~160 matches of data total.