Sports ranking with nonuniform weighting

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Chartier, Timothy P ^a   Kreutzer, Erich ^a   Langville, Amy N ^b   Pedings, Kathryn E ^b  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Colley method; March Madness; Massey method; ranking; weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755188080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15590410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1559-0410.1290     Document Type: Article

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