Showing posts with label Realignment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Realignment. Show all posts
Wired.com article on realignment
Samuel Arbesman (@arbesman) wrote a nice article at Wired.com titled Algorithmically Realigning Sports Leagues. The article is a nice summary of the realignment project that Bill Pulleyblank and I worked on. Check it out here, and the rest of our realignment stuff here.
Analysis of NHL's realignment plan
I just finished up an article over at HockeyProspectus.com, analyzing the NHL's new realignment plan.
At first glance, the new plan might appear bad for the teams in the northeast and the Florida teams, who are all in a division together. But we show, among other things, that the new plan has a fairly small impact on their travel... just a small increase over what their travel would have been in the the "best" 4-conference solution (if by "best" we mean the solution that would minimize travel).
Links to all of the realignment articles are on the realignment page.
At first glance, the new plan might appear bad for the teams in the northeast and the Florida teams, who are all in a division together. But we show, among other things, that the new plan has a fairly small impact on their travel... just a small increase over what their travel would have been in the the "best" 4-conference solution (if by "best" we mean the solution that would minimize travel).
Links to all of the realignment articles are on the realignment page.
More realignment figures
Just wanted to post some figures that are related to the discussion going on over at Tom Tango's blog about realignment. I'd encourage you to read the discussion there first. (I encourage you to read the rest of his blog regularly also.)
NHL Realignment
I recently finished a paper on realignment with friend and colleague
Bill Pulleyblank. The purpose of the project was to determine solutions to realignment that minimize travel for the league. We also compare our best solutions to the NHL 4-conference proposal from around a year ago.
I also wrote a couple of articles about it on Hockey Prospectus. Links to everything, plus some animations that are discussed in the second Hockey Prospectus article, can be found on the Realignment page.
I also wrote a couple of articles about it on Hockey Prospectus. Links to everything, plus some animations that are discussed in the second Hockey Prospectus article, can be found on the Realignment page.
Realignment Animations
I'll be writing some articles on realignment shortly. In the mean time, here's a preview... I posted some animations related to this project on the Realignment page, including the top 100 solutions for each of the 4 major sports leagues.
Details about our method of generating and ranking these realignments is coming soon...
Details about our method of generating and ranking these realignments is coming soon...
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