After all my hand-wringing about the state of California college football last week it was a pleasant surprise to see a Sacramento State v. San Jose State matchup on TV Friday night (albeit TruTV). Sacrament State has raised its profile lately, or maybe I’m just desperate. Right now we have all the California colleges we… Continue reading Just add hornets
Category: rules
In the wake of the Pac-12
Getting back to the actual MCC code after a long absence, I realized I had this sad localmod on my box: Keeping a “second scoreboard” is something I never fully committed to the actual codebase because it has one narrow use: tracking seconds in the full Pac-12 sim helps see what the potential Pac-12 championship… Continue reading In the wake of the Pac-12
They play football in Texas too
Let’s test the portability of the “virtual conference” API. I added a canned dictionary of Texas teams to the python executable. Inside the API code I also added the final tiebreaker, total margin. As identified last week this was technically in the rules but never came up in the California runs so far. This code… Continue reading They play football in Texas too
FCS shouldn’t count?
Doing a project as pointless as this lets me really examine some of the pitfalls of how software projects get hung up. Let’s take a look at a verbose run for 2007 under the current codebase: UCLA 45 at Stanford 17 on Sep 01, 2007 Sacramento State 3 at Fresno State 24 on Sep 02,… Continue reading FCS shouldn’t count?
Virtual conferences and the FBS problem
It occurs to me that the idea of a intra-California results can be generalized to “virtual conference”. Selecting a pool of teams from which to draw intramural results out of the larger results pool might be a more useful general problem. I swear the general idea only presented itself after working on the (absurd) specific… Continue reading Virtual conferences and the FBS problem