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
Category: rules
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