Glen DowntonMy final standing in #ESPN's footy tipping comp for the year. Not sure all of those 800k+ accounts are actually participating each week, but I'll take it.
If there are any footy maths nerds here, I stuck strictly to the results of an Elo rating model as described here [http://www.matterofstats.com/mafl-stats-journal/2013/10/13/building-your-own-team-rating-system.html]. Can't argue with the data!
Gotta give a shout out to Tony Corke of @MatterOfStats who gives out so much helpful information for free.
Building Your Own Team Rating System — Matter of Stats
Just before the 2nd Round of 2008 I created MAFL's Team Ratings System, MARS, never suspecting that I'd still be writing about it 5 years later. At the time, I described MARS in the newsletter for that week in a document still available from the Newsletters 2005-2008 section section of this website
Jake