Ranking National Football League teams using Google's PageRank.
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.<br />
◮<br />
e<br />
T<br />
i , where e i is the standard basis vector.<br />
◮<br />
π<br />
T<br />
t−1 , <strong>using</strong> the ranking vector from previous week.