Ranking National Football League teams using Google's PageRank
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چکیده
The search engine Google uses the PageRanks of webpages to determine the order in which they are displayed as the result of a web search. In this work we expand Google’s idea of webpage ranking to ranking National Football League teams. We think of the teams as webpages and use the statistics of a football season to create the connections (links) between the teams. The objective is to be able to rank NFL teams by their relative strengths.
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