Because of the bizarre workings of the ranking system, Westwood would have been certain to dethrone Woods if he had withdrawn and then missed his defence of the Portugal Masters next week.
Because of the machinations of the ranking system, which is calculated over a two-year period, he would knock Woods off the top spot on 31 October, provided the American sticks to his plan not to play until 4 November himself.
Just check out the predictions by LRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain), the computer ranking system designed by three professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Reynolds says, based on his analysis, the BCS ranking system does no better than a simple formula combining wins and losses with respect to the quality of opponents beaten.
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Once the 8 teams have been identified, use the same ranking system to sort who would play who.
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Indeed, the Value Line magic was much more apparent in the stock-ranking system's first two decades than in the last one.
The methodology for our ranking system remained largely the same this year.
The RPI is a ranking system that has been given some credence for being more analytically-based than oft used media-based or coaches-based polls.
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Since 1946, Eisenstadt has worked at Value Line, publisher of the Value Line Investment Survey, where he developed a stock ranking system that has been the foundation of perhaps the most popular and successful independent investment advisory service in history.
Officials involved in homeland security issues said the White House would soon announce a new ranking system for alerts to law enforcement agencies and the American people if any information suggests the possibility of new attacks.
The buy and sell recommendations I post here come from the EVA Dimensions stock-ranking system called PRVit, for Performance-Risk-Valuation investment technology.
As part of this new initiative, Blizzard has established the first-ever official global ranking system for its popular real-time strategy (RTS) game eSports.
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The Michelin Guide uses its star ranking system to rate restaurants.
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No statistics-based, computer-generated ranking system, which the Official World Golf Rankings is, will ever satisfy every sports fan's notion of who the best players or teams are at any given moment.
This is the second year the Reputation Institute has ranked cities, but the first year it used this particular ranking system.
"The factors employed by Forbes to generate this ranking list capture well the perfect storm that has enveloped the University of California system, " says spokesman Peter King--who's quick to note that this spring the 10 UC campuses received a record 135, 029 applicants.
For example, the tables throughout your house exist in a functional ranking system.
So far, the only person who worked for the pension system who has pleaded guilty is Mr. Loglisci, who as chief investment officer was the highest-ranking investment official in the fund.
Thanks to a ranking system that keeps fans engaged all year, the cost of losing is potentially one that includes the national championship.
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Currently, the top two teams are selected based on a season-long ranking system and placed in a championship bowl game.
However, because of the strength of its schedule, the BCS computer system ranked Oregon fourth, thereby sealing its number-two ranking.
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About three years ago, U.S. Squash made a drastic change to its junior ranking system: Instead of being determined by an algorithm that evaluated the probabilities of matches between competitors, they now base rank on the number of points players earn at a tournament.
In our ranking system, a buy rating means they are more attractively valued than 80% of the companies in their industries.
Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Friday he also has concerns about gaps in the immigration system.
The city of Austin, Texas has traditionally fared well in our annual ranking of Best Places for Business and Careers in the U.S. Fueled by the University of Texas system and firms like Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ), it grabbed the top spot in 2000 and 2003, and landed in third place last year.
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