An overview of some methods for ranking sports teams
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In order to do this extensive use of mathematics is used, which might make the text more difficult to read, but ensures the method is well documented and reproducible by others, who might want to use it or derive another ranking method from it. The report is, on the other hand, also more detailed than a ”typical” scientific paper and discusses details, which in a scientific paper intended for publication would be omitted.
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