More Data, More Tweaks

Still studying for that damn bar for another 9 days.  I honestly am both incredibly grateful that it’s so soon and fearful that it’s so soon. Anyway, took a couple minutes to update the table and tweak it a bit.  I added a conversion to “Adjusted Points per Game” so comparison can be made between [...]

More Experimentation

Okay, so looking over the power rankings formula, I realized it probably over-emphasized the last 5 games. I couldn’t think of a nice way to de-emphasize the L5 without either removing it entirely, playing with weights for the variables endlessly, or just adding a new variable.  So I added a category for performance over the [...]

Just a Little Experiment…

So, in the spirit of morning procrastination, I’ve been playing around a little bit with Excel and working with some data I’ve been compiling over the course of the MLS season to date.  I’ve been tracking the points earned in each game by each team, disregarding the date on which it was played.  My goal [...]

Well, that was predictable

So, I know I’ve been a very bad blogger.  As usual.  But now that school is over… I’m studying for the damn bar exam.  But once that’s over, I should be able to write more.  Hooray! As for now, I’m taking a very, very quick break from studying because this video (via Behind the Badge) [...]

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