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Activity Number:
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43
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, July 29, 2012 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Sports
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| Abstract - #306343 |
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Title:
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Measuring Game Competitiveness Using Team Box Score Data
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Author(s):
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Max Buot*+ and Matthew Dulle
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Companies:
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Xavier University and The Kroger Co.
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Address:
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Dept of Mathematics & CS, Cincinnati, OH, 45207, United States
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Keywords:
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sports ;
ranking ;
college football ;
BCS
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Abstract:
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We propose various measures of game competitiveness in sports which are based on team box score data and provide a specific application to college football results over the past few seasons. The measures discussed are bounded between 0.5 and 1.0: scores closer to the lower bound are associated with a highly competitive match, and scores closer to the upper bound indicate a dominating performance by the winning team. We also investigate the use of game competitive measures in a team ranking system currently employed by the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).
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