Comments on: More Turkey Day Specials

By: Seif-Eldeine

Seif-Eldeine — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:41:14 +0000

Hey, yeah, I was on internet explorer, it is fixed now. Thank you so much for the quick response, I have been working on updating the design on my blog so I was not able to respond... Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about the Hollinger ratings. During the summer, I am going to attempt to tweak his ratings to include more of the final games of a season (probably 20) while not including games after teams have already clinched a certain place in the playoff seeds. Seeing that SRS is even more accurate than the seeds is really nice.

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:07:33 +0000

Thanks for letting us know about the formatting bug (I'm assuming you're in Internet Explorer?). We'll take a look at why the content is shifted below the sidebar. As for Hollinger's ratings, I'm not sure... I've seen the formula, but I don't really know how he derived it. It seems like the biggest difference between the SRS and JH's system is the extra weight he gives recent games, which may be leading to the discrepancy.

By: Seif-Eldeine

Seif-Eldeine — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:01:45 +0000

Hey, I do not know how often the author or BBR follows up on comments, but I think one of the reasons you may not have any comments despite it being two days is the post is showing up blank until under the sidebar. This was a problem when I clicked the header but not a problem when I clicked the bottom link, as it brought me directly to the post, although the white space in the middle along the sidebar still exists. Thank you for this article, however I do have a lot of reservations about Hollinger's stats. I have been doing an analysis of Hollinger's rating, your simple rating system and playoff seeds to determine which method is the best for predicting playoff series wins. I have finished analysis of the simple rating system and the playoff seeds all the way back to 1950, and determined that SRS outperforms the actual seeds slightly in this time. As I have had to calculate Hollinger's ratings on my own, I have only released the results of Hollinger and the other rating systems for the past 5 years, and I am working my way back. Hollinger is not performing as well as SRS or the playoff seeds, so I am beginning to have doubts about the validity or usefulness of his other statistics. I hope to get an e-mail response from you guys about why you think your system outperforms Hollinger's ratings and playoff seeds! I would like to share your insight with my readers.