Open AccessMethods for Ranking Sports Teams
Author(s) -
Eimantas Palionis,
Viktoras Chadyšas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
lithuanian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2029-7262
DOI - 10.15388/ljs.2015.13883
Subject(s) - basketball , ranking (information retrieval) , computer science , statistics , data science , geography , information retrieval , mathematics , archaeology
The paper describes various methods that can be applied to the ranking of sports teams. Using the real data of theNational Basketball Association (NBA) from the first half of the 2014–2015 season (from 2014-10-28 to 2015-02-12), teams areranked using different ranking methods. All methods are compared with each other.