New Graph Style
Here’s a new graph style. Unfortunately, to get text and images together, I had to upgrade to a new version of the software that doesn’t have anti-aliasing enabled yet. Hopefully that improvement will come soon.
Category Archives: Beatpath Tech
More Sorting Algorithms
Here’s a variation on the sorting algorithm I use to sort the graph into power rankings. Find all the teams that don’t have beatlosses. For Week 8, that is DEN, IND, SEA, CAR, NYG, and ATL. Then out of those, find the team that was ranked highest last week. Add that team to the power [...]
What Are BeatPoints?
BeatPoints is my name for the number that was suggested in the comments a couple of weeks ago. Take a team and count up all the teams it has a beatpath to. That’s the number of beatwins. Then count up all the teams that have a beatpath to the team. That’s the number of beatlosses. [...]
DAGs and Topological Sorting.
For those of you into the geekier aspects of this, I’ve learned from some Computer Science people that a graph of this sort is called a “Directed Acyclic Graph”, and putting them into power rankings is called “Topological Sorting”. There’s tons of information out there about possible algorithms. Technorati Tags: beatpath
Beatpaths Power Rankings: How Stable Are They?
The main thing about the Beatpaths Power Ranking calculation method is that when in doubt, they defer to the previous week’s power rankings. The reasoning behind that should be obvious. Assuming the previous week’s power rankings are good, the new power rankings have just as reliable a foundation to base its rankings on. The question [...]
Beatpaths Automatic Power Ranking
All right, after two days of hacking, we finally have an objective, automatically generated power ranking system. If you’ve been reading, you’ll notice that this is actually the third rev of the objective system. The system is beta, and we had a couple of minor bugs. The first was easy to find because it insisted [...]
Beatpath Logo Graph
Here’s an example of a beatpath graph with logos and colors. Honestly, I think it’s pretty nifty… but not as useful as the one with the team abbreviations. The logos actually make it slightly harder to recognize which teams are which, and understand the conceptual pathways from team to team. In my opinion. But let [...]
Removing Beatloops
There have been a lot of questions about how beatloops are removed, and under what circumstances a beatpath segment reappears. Read on to see a graph of some common cases and to discuss what is the best way to handle the different scenarios. Technorati Tags: beatpath, football, nfl