By: Jacob Bendicksen
New: 15-07-2015 01:36
Updated: 15-07-2015 01:39
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A Python program that determines the teams most likely to win the Championship Chairman's Award based on their awards history.

NOTE: CD-Media doesn't like Python files, so I'm waiting for the admins to okay the file for upload. It exists, I promise!

A couple months back, I saw Jim Zondag's giant Excel spreadsheet of Championship history and the 'predict the Championship Chairman's Award winner' thread, and I realized that most of the speculation surrounding the recipient of the CCA was far more qualitative than quantitative. While I realize as a Chairman's presenter that it's inherently a qualitative award, I like over-analyzing things, so I wrote this Python script.

In a nutshell, what this program does is take a team's award history (the document below titled awards.txt), finds the relevant awards (Chairman's Awards, Engineering Inspiration Awards, and event wins), weights them based on the year in which they were won, and comes up with a final rating.

Why CA, EI, and event wins? These seem to have the strongest correlation with being a contender for the CCA, and I didn't want to get too complicated.

Let me know if anything doesn't work. I'm also happy to put this up on GitHub if people are interested in improving it.

Note: this requires you to run Python 2.7. Thanks to Thad House for pointing that out.

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