The fantasy football season's outcome is often decided before real NFL players take the field for meaningful games. Separating your team from the crowd takes analysis -- based in logic, math, and knowledge of the unique quirks ...
Mathematics
Sep 1, 2010
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Politicians, policymakers, urban planners, real-estate developers and corporate executives pay close attention to city liveability rankings. The global urban elite sees these as measures of the metropolitan "good". Yet, as ...
Environment
Jun 14, 2016
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In a world where everything from placement in a Google search result to World Cup eligibility depends on ranking and numerical ratings of some kind, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze the algorithms and techniques ...
Mathematics
May 24, 2011
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(AP) -- Even search engines can get suckered by Internet scams. With a little sleight of hand, con artists can dupe them into giving top billing to fraudulent Web sites that prey on consumers, making unwitting accomplices ...
Internet
Dec 8, 2009
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Many of the top-ranked teams competing in the 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship tournament look familiar.
Mathematics
Mar 16, 2011
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Researchers from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche have used mathematical techniques and the game statistics from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) to rank tennis players based on assessing their play ...
Mathematics
Jun 28, 2013
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Having strong social connections has many benefits, from splitting the tab on a pizza to having someone with whom to binge watch Netflix. But for rhesus macaque monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Finding the similarities between volleyball and snooker may seem quite tricky. However, a group of physicists have found that the spread of scores, otherwise known as distribution, across their ranking systems ...
General Physics
Sep 20, 2012
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College rankings dominate the conversation regarding quality in postsecondary education, but new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York reveals that rankings have little to no relationship to student ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2018
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When it comes to advancing social status, it's not what you know, it's who you know—for humans and spotted hyenas alike.
Ecology
Mar 11, 2019
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