ryanguest/collegefootball2015

Run the page rank algorithm based on 2015 football scores to evaluate the selection committee's rankings

CollegeFootball2015

Run the page rank algorithm based on 2015 football scores to evaluate the selection committee's rankings Note: the scores were downloaded from here: http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2015-schedule.html

If you just want to generate the rankings...

1. download octave (or Matlab if you have it) - https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html
   
2. execute at linux prompt: linux> octave page.m
   Output should look like this:
   Clemson
   Michigan State
   Alabama
   Stanford
   Oklahoma
   Houston
   Iowa
   Ohio State
   ...

If you want to build the matrix from the scores or try it with data from a different season, do these additional steps...

1. download csv from a suitable website (such as http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2015-schedule.html)
   
2. run the football.py script with no arguments to generate the H matrix from stdout
   linux> ./football.py > H.mat
3. run the football.py script a second time with an argument to generate the file teams.csv
   linux> ./football.py 1 > teams.csv
4. run the page ranks in octave as above linux> octave page.m