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The ranking of sports teams is of significant importance to those who are involved with or interested in the various professional and amateur leagues that exist around the world. The paper presents a ranking algorithm that is simple to implement in SAS code and which gives results that are consistent with some of the best and most well-known computer methods for ranking sports teams. Whether one is trying to get an edge up on the office pool or to rank the teams for one's daughter's soccer league tournament, the techniques presented here allows to accomplish this easily. The method, inspired by the Google's PageRank algorithm, uses ideas from the PageRank algorithm to rank teams based on their schedule results.

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Date:Mar 2008
Pages:11

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