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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.