I did a github. The initial commit separates out the “California” parts into a client of an team-agnostic “virtual conference” API. Next up is fixing the FCS stuff and ties.
2021 schedule
College football season is here. What’s on the calendar for its most prestigious corner, the Mythical California Cup? Fortunately CollegeFootballData API includes scheduled future games, so with slight modification to our results finder to gracefully handle outcomes in the future we can print it out. Here’s the run for 2021: San José State at USC… Continue reading 2021 schedule
What’s on the big board?
Come on, write some code. Big stuff: generalize to virtual conference implement optional FCS check for every team start a github or some repo (is there hg-hub yet?) Small stuff: handle tie games in the data model visually pad the standings properly catch the datestrings and parse into datetime objects earlier and manipulate entirely as… Continue reading What’s on the big board?
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
Results
Let’s see some results. I refactored everything into functions and squashed some of the noise so let’s see a run. Next up is I need to find a good css module that allows for clickable sorting tables but for now here’s a dump. I left in some of the tie-breaker text cruft so I can… Continue reading Results
First pass
Just to keep myself honest this is version 0.1. Single year run with hard-coded school list. The dataset is a bit incomplete on stadium info, which is the only way to query the abstract location of a school. (I think.) So for now we’ll populate the CA schools. This is still incomplete, especially for the… Continue reading First pass
This is silly
But we’re doing it. I updated the rules here. So far as I can see the tiebreaks only progress to “margin of victory against common opponents”.