Thursday, September 30, 2004
Baseball team strengths
Assign each team a nonnegative strength value. (For normalization, say, have the sum of strengths be unity or something.) If two teams of strength X and Y play each other, let the probability that X wins be X/(X+Y), and likewise for Y. Find the assignment of strengths with maximum likelihood of explaining the season.
An challenging problem is to determine when a team is ``mathematically eliminated'' (under all possible results of future games) from finishing at least n-th in the strength standings.
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Printing
We always try to bind together loose sheets of paper. Can the printer print directly into my spiral notebook?
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
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