...located at this URL:
http://www.rawbw.com/~deano/articles/BellCurve.html

Basically it takes the distributions of a given team's Points For and Points Against to determine a team's Luck and potential down the line, working very similarly. Ideally, I would like this app to update dynamically, feeding in data from Yahoo! or ESPN (although I'm pretty sure that's super illegal).

Am I best off recreating it in Java, like it is now, or can I/should I use another language?

11/5/2011 12:15:59 PM

So you just need a histogram of game scores? Code it in whatever you like, but if you're doing it on the web I would just do the graphs themselves with Google Charts. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

To get the data, you might want to try Yahoo's Fantasy Sports API, which I think you can use for free (rate limited, like most free data APIs). http://developer.yahoo.com/fantasysports/

11/5/2011 12:20:46 PM

^

Quote :

"So you just need a histogram of game scores"

i think he's trying to more than just histograms though. if you're trying to predict the probability of a win vs another team, you'll need to do some statistical analysis and there are lots of different ways you might choose to do that

[Edited on November 5, 2011 at 12:35 PM. Reason : logistic regression]

11/5/2011 12:31:06 PM

http://www.kenpom.com/

11/5/2011 3:45:20 PM

try http://www.statsheet.com (local startup, btw).

I think they have some custom reporting/breakdowns you can do

11/6/2011 7:49:52 PM

Kenpom has score logs for every game going back to 02 hidden away on his site (tab-delimited, too)

Better grab em before they get paywall'd

11/6/2011 10:34:20 PM