Thanks for all the comments and suggestions from the previous entry. I’m also relieved that people are still reading since I put the site on hiatus in the off-season. The system is still applicable to the other sports, but I still have some work to do to make it more automated, and right now I [...]
Beatpaths was really fun during the entire 2005 NFL Season, but there’s been one niggling issue that I’ve been trying to figure out how to address for the start of the 2006 NFL Season. The beatpaths graphs don’t really make a lot of sense until each team has a few games under their belts so [...]
We have a guest column up over at Two Minute Warning, where we introduce the beatpaths concept and discuss some of the upcoming week’s key games.
Certain threads have remained active long after they’ve been pushed down the page, so I put a section in the sidebar that has a listing of the recent entries with comment activity.
Any requests for new features to add to the site? Enhancements to the graph? Enhancements to the power rankings? What’s the next sport that should be added to the mix? Here’s the list of things I’m considering: Prettier graphs – I should be able to get anti-aliased graphs back into the picture. Interactive functionality. This [...]
One of the most common questions I get is whether Beatpaths.com is also interested in attempting to rank teams from other sports. The answer is: Absolutely! I’m curious how it will work with college football, where there aren’t many shared opponents, and with basketball/baseball, where there are a ton of shared opponents. Will it be [...]
Beatpaths.com was written up in a hilarious King Kaufman article over at salon.com today. You have to watch an ad to read it (if you’re not a member), but here’s an excerpt: What’s a beatpath? Search me. Here’s the explanation: “If a team beats another team, who beats a third team, and it doesn’t become [...]
I’ve gotten the beginnings of a good response to the beatpaths method of ranking sports teams, so what the hell, let’s give it its own site. I put this up inside of a day, so please don’t give me too much abuse for the lame design. Unless you really want to, ’cause I kinda deserve [...]