> I'm sorry if I'm sounding like I'm discouraging you, Sid, but I am > trying to discourage you. Your task is extremely complex, if you're > talking about sports I am familiar with; you yourself will have to find > the right weighting scheme out of a zillion that exist, we cannot do > that for you; the goals you have set out (detect a 10% difference > between methods) are extremely tough to achieve; getting accurate > predictions is also extremely difficult to achieve. Your goal is > admirable, your path is difficult.
Fair enough. But I still think it is a reasonable goal to be able to "rank" teams or individuals. I was not asking for the "right" weighting scheme. I was just asking for a few pointers. Of course, I could spend the next six months researching the subject(s), but I thought it was a reasonable question to ask here. If perchance someone read my post who has tried to formulate rankings for a (any) sport he might have been able to give me a kick start. Cheers . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
