Weekend Recap
Sorry about the lack of updates, but there isn’t that much going on right now except working out and random database things. I went to Jersey City, NJ (located just across the Hudson from Manhatten) for the Super Bowl to meet up with some my long-time friends. And by long-time, I mean REALLY long. I’ve known all three of them for about 20 years as we went to the same private school outside of Philadelphia from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Unfortunately, we don’t live near each other anymore so it’s good to catch up with them. I also brought Ozzy with me since he lives somewhat nearby, then I hung out with him in Staten Island on Monday.
There isn’t much to say about the game. It was a good (meaning exciting) game, but I think it was clear that the Steelers were a better team and were going to win. I normally would bet giving the three points when I feel this way about a game, but I just didn’t pay close enough attention to football this season. I also didn’t find anyone who wanted to bet and I don’t like to pay the vig so I didn’t bet it online. This is the first Super Bowl in 5 or 6 years that I didn’t bet on, so that was a bit strange.
Ozzy is missing the France tournament (as I suggested might happen in an earlier entry), but the complications that arose really weren’t his fault. However, he won a seat to Monte Carlo, so I’m about 99% sure he’ll make it there. The tournament starts on March 7th, so Ozzy, Roman and I plan on gong over on the 5th. After the tournament is over, we’ll travel around Europe for a month and return in the beginning of April. It should be a fun trip and I’ll definitely be posting a ton of updates and pictures as the trip is going on… that’s clearly a lot more exciting than what I do on a day to day basis here in Philadelphia.
I’ve been working on a script to rank players in the database. I finished a beta ranking, but I think I need to change the point system before I put it up on the site as I noticed a bunch of ways someone could skew the rankings by varying their tournament choice. Once I get the formula right, we’ll release weekly rankings for overall, by level and by game type. The rankings won’t actually show you any information about the results that were used to calculate the ranking, just the points that resulted from the formula as well as the formula used to calculate the results. Also, I think we’ll do it on a trailing twelve month (TTM) basis, so each week we pick up this year will be one week that we knock off of last year.
I’m buying a new cellphone today (Motorola Razr for Verizon), so I’m pretty excited — as I always am when I’m about to pick up a new gadget. That’s it for now.
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