Thread: Playing around with similarity scores

What? Sorry, you lost me after the second sentence...lol!

Nice work, pilight!

I knew that I was correct in taking Latta 12th overall in that mock draft last season! *as pilight shakes his head, having hoped that we would have gotten more out of that* It's good stuff all the same. Except the bit about Chante Black and that other gal there. Demon speech spouting. _________________ Namaste Anything successful is a series of mistakes. Sun STH

I'm sure most of you saw Petrel's post about similarity scores a few days ago. I like the similarity score system, I remember when Bill James first introduced it for baseball back in the early 80's, but I'm not convinced that Petrel is using it to its best effect. First, I don't think comparing a career in progress to a completed career is a fair test. Coco Miller and Elaine Powell have some similarities, to be sure,...

Maybe a picture will be more illustrative: I think that pilight is using different quotients that I am. Once he suggested the "use different denominators" idea, I think we both ran with it in different ways. Still, my results are the same as his. The idea behind similiarity scores: "take two stat lines, subtract points where different, and see which players are most similar to the others". Bonner vs. Thomas : They look...