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Ranking National Football League teams using Google's PageRank.

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<strong>Ranking</strong> <strong>National</strong> <strong>Football</strong> <strong>League</strong> <strong>teams</strong> <strong>using</strong> Google’s <strong>PageRank</strong>.<br />

<strong>Ranking</strong> NFL.<br />

Variations on <strong>PageRank</strong>.<br />

◮ H(i, j) = ∑ t<br />

w t ij /(∑ j<br />

( ∑ t<br />

w t ij ))<br />

where w ij is the weight on the edge from team i to team j<br />

during week t.<br />

◮ Dealing with the ith zero row (undefeated team i)<br />

◮ (1/32)e T , equally likely to lose to any other team.

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