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Hi everyone, We have an opening for a Basketball Applications Developer in Portland: The Portland Trail Blazers have an exciting opportunity for a Basketball Applications Developer. The position will build and maintain software applications in support of the front office and coaching staff. The posi...

You can't become an expert DB architect overnight, but learning the basics of SQL should be easy. If it's not, then it's time to find another vocation.

The forum can't even remember me when I visit... even though I tell it to do so!!

One could also consider a longitudinal analysis.

Might want to start here: http://www.bepress.com/jqas/vol3/iss3/1/

It's kind of like the internet. Just because it's published in a journal doesn't mean it's right. That issue aside, I've found journals to act as a nice archive. Can you imagine trying to find stuff people posted on blogs and other websites in say 20 years from now? Maybe someone should create journ...

It doesn't sound like you have a model for predicting Team X beating Team Y, but it sounds like you may be able to use properties of odds ratios (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds_ratio) to get the probabilities that Team X survives longer than Team Y.

It would be similar to RAPM in that way, yes. As for the spreadsheet, the links look hidden in the comments. "this spreadsheet" actually links to:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key= ... tZVE&hl=en

I didn't do any cross-validation with this model.

The ratings are assumed to come from a normal distribution with some unknown variance that is estimated from the data. These are estimated using MCMC techniques that give estimates for these variances, likely values, etc.

So when I say uninformed I mean that I used a "flat" prior on those variance parameters of the rating distributions. In sort of layman's terms, my use of an uninformed prior here is so that those variances are not confined to some pre-determined interval. They should theoretically be any p...

Bayesian models of efficiency are so 2009 (or earlier?): A Basic Hierarchical Model of Efficiency

Anyone else required to login on every visit?

Oh, and maybe you could MySQL dump this thing to your house every couple of weeks.

It's about time you upgraded this place Kevin! The pro silver theme is great. And there are post icons!!

Sad to see that everything was lost, but hey, we still have our health. A good cleansing can be healthy. So for all of you doing good work, fill this board up with it!!