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How do you compare
with the rest of the club?
'Yardstik' yourselves and find out. |
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Yardstik provides
a means by which the results of two-player games
(like Squash, Badminton & Tennis) can be processed
to generate skill ratings for each player. Thousands
of match results can be processed simultaneously.
Yardstik generates a sorted list of players in
descending order of their skill 'rating'.
Documentation, test data, configuration file
and a demonstration version of Yardstik (licensed
for up to 250 matches) can be downloaded.
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| Developments |
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'Yardstik' in football |
| | Yardstik has now been applied to the English Football leagues with interesting results.
Because it imposes no constraints on fixtures, it has been possible to calculate rating for all 122 clubs in the English football and conference leagues simultaneously. Yardstik also estimates home advantage.
The results suggest that many more clubs could be promoted (and relegated) particularly in the intermediate leagues. |
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Yardstik: Free trial runs |
| | See how Yardstik could work for you.
Use your favourite editor (e.g. MS Notepad) to prepare a file of your scores data. Then specify the file name and five program parameters. Press "Upload and Process" and the Player Ratings are calculated immediately.
Currently, files upto 30K in size can be processed. Details of the format required are given in "Yardstik/Implementation". |
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| Distractions |
| No.
104 |
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Please excuse the length of this letter; I do not have time to be brief. |
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attributed to G. B. Shaw, Bertrand Russell, and Blaise Pascal |
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39 |
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R Dart & Torbay, England |
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