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From: mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk (David J.C. MacKay)
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Subject: Request for Complete Regionals and Nationals Data (Final positions appended)
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Request for Complete Regionals and Nationals Data (Final positions appended)
Dear Britdisc,
I am planning to write a program which computes team rankings on
the basis of game results. This program will be useful both for
integration of results from multiple tournaments, and also for making
new tournament formats. As a first test for this program I would like
to receive as many results as possible from the regionals and the
nationals.
(a) What data is needed?
Ideally, I would like the *scores* of every game that was
played. If this information has been forgotten, then I would like to
know who won every game. But scores would be MUCH better (because the
program will give more accurate rankings if close games are
distinguished from games with a big goal difference).
(b) Who's going to send me the data?
If you know that you did *not* tell your tournament directors
the scores in your games, then please email your scores to me.
If you are a Tournament Director, please send
the information you have to me by email (mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk).
(c) What format for the data?
Please, to make things easy to automate, send me the results in the
following format, using the abbreviations for teams given below:
TOP LINE: # Date of tournament
SUBSEQUENT LINES: One result per line.
example: (the results of Saturday's Shotgun Wedding v Stan and
Violently Happy versus Catch 22 pool games)
# 26 / 10 / 1996
SW 17 ST 15
VH 14 CT 13
- If you are not sure of the score, please add a
question mark "?" at the end of the uncertain line.
- If a game was won by default (so there was no score), please
give the result in the form "A ! B", meaning team A
beat team B.
- If you only know the outcome (win/loss) of the game, please give the
result in the form "A * B".
For example, the results of some UTI, Headrush,
Chevron Action Flash and Fluid Druids games were:
# 26 / 10 / 1996
UTI * HR
FD * HR
UTI * CA
FD * CA
FD 15 UTI 14 ?
Key for team abbreviations:
SW Shotgun Wedding
FD Fluid Druids
UTI UTI
ST Stan
CT Catch 22
FM funky monks
VH violently happy
TD tribal desire
HR headrush
CA chevron action flash
RE red
MY mythago
BAF blue arse flies
SB Strange Blue
SK skunks
FT first touch
CU Cuisons
SH Sharks I
UR Uriel I
SHII Sharks II
MYII Mythago II
FN Funky Nuns
PN Picnic I
SKII Skunks II
URII Uriel II
PNII Picnic II
EP Exotica Playthings
LU Lurkers
VP Village People
BGA B.G.A.
MK Mad Kows
SFA S.F.A.
AN Angels
MO Mohawks
AL Albatross
SBII Strange Blue 2
HU Hurricane
BL Bliss
SU Superfly
SN Sneeekys
JE Jesters
(Other teams not listed: please give a sensible two-letter abbreviation
and tell me the key)
(d) How to check whether your scores have already been reported?
I will put all scores that I receive in this web page.
<a HREF="http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/ultimate/infera/"><b>Program for inferring rankings from game scores</b></a>
Thankyou for your help!
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Results of nationals
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1 shotgun wedding
2 fluid druids
3 U.T.I.
4 stan (spirit)
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5 catch 22
6 funky monks
7 violently happy
8 tribal desire
9 headfrush
10 chevron
11 red
12 mythago
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13 blue arse flies
14 strange blue
15 skunks
16 first touch
Thanks to Chris for putting on a superb tournament with great fields
and a great marquee!
Yours,
David
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David J.C. MacKay email: mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk
www: http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/
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