[stamp] Re: strength of schedule
- From: "Steven Buss" <steven.buss@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: stamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:02:12 -0500
That sounds good, I'll write that up tonight and compare the numbers I get
from either function, then I'll decide which one looks better.
On 2/27/06, Brandon Ripley <Brandon.Ripley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I kind of got what you were describing below, but I'm not completely sure.
> Here is my take. I think the strength of schedule should take all your
> opponents' average wins and subtract all your alliance partners' average
> wins. It should range between -1 and 1. Negative one means your alliances
> won all their matches and your opponents lost all their matches (perfect
> easy schedule). Positive one means your alliances lost all their matches and
> your opponents won all their matches (perfect difficult schedule).
>
> For this example, the team of interest is Red1 and WinPercent is that
> team's average win percentage.
> $matchSoS = (($blue1WinPercent + $blue2WinPercent + $blue3WinPercent) / 3)
> - (($red2WinPercent + $red3WinPercent) / 2)
>
> This calculation would be duplicated for each match the robot of interest
> was in and all the $matchSoS's would be averaged.
>
> I think this is pretty close to what you are describing below.
>
> Brandon
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Steven Buss [mailto:steven.buss@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:21 PM
> *To:* stamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [stamp] strength of schedule
>
> Strength of schedule is done, but I don't know if I'm happy with how it
> works. Right now it finds the sum of the win percentage of every opponent
> ($opponentAverageWins) and the sum of the win percentage of each team on the
> alliance the requested team is on ($myAverageWins). It then divides each
> $opponentAverageWins and $myAverageWins by the total number of robots played
> (essentially = 3 * number of matches). It returns (($opponentAverageWins /
> $robotsPlayed) + (1 - ($myAllianceAverageWins / 3))) / 2, which is the
> average opponent win percentage plus 1 - teammate win percentage. Does that
> sound ok? I hope my description was good...
>
> --
> Steven Buss
> steven.buss@xxxxxxxxx
> PHP/MySQL programmer
>
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Steven Buss
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