Points per adjusted tossups heard - Revision history

Kevin Wang at 00:56, 2 September 2022

2022-09-02T00:56:44Z

Kevin Wang: /* Criticism */

2022-09-02T00:47:30Z

Criticism

John Lawrence at 12:36, 18 April 2022

2022-04-18T12:36:32Z

Reilly Melville at 20:52, 31 October 2021

2021-10-31T20:52:03Z

Nate Kang: Nate Kang moved page PATH to Points per adjusted tossups heard

2019-05-05T02:54:36Z

Nate Kang moved page PATH to Points per adjusted tossups heard

Dwight Wynne: Created page with ''''PATH''', or Points per Adjusted Tossups Heard, is a statistic developed by Samer Ismail to attempt to account for the shadow effect in individual PPG statistics. …'

2012-06-27T01:24:08Z

Created page with ''''PATH''', or Points per Adjusted Tossups Heard, is a statistic developed by Samer Ismail to attempt to account for the shadow effect in individual PPG statistics. …'

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'''PATH''', or Points per Adjusted Tossups Heard, is a statistic developed by [[Samer Ismail]] to attempt to account for the [[shadow effect]] in individual [[PPG]] statistics.

==Formula==
1. Multiply the number of points scored by the player by 20.<br>
2. Subtract the number of tossups correctly answered by the player's teammates and one-half the number of [[negs]] by the player's teammates from the total number of tossups heard by the player. Multiply this result by the fraction of the total questions heard by the team that the player heard.<br>
3. Divide the result from Step 1 by the result from Step 2.

==Criticism==
The formula for PATH assumes that the shadow effect of Player A on Player B is of the same magnitude as the shadow effect of Player A on Player C. Because every player has a unique knowledge base, this assumption is invalid (consider the case of two physics specialists playing together, as opposed to one physics specialist and one history specialist).

The correction for substitutions is mathematically unsound.
[[Category: Statistics]]

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−	'''PATH''', or Points per Adjusted Tossups Heard, is a statistic developed by [[Samer Ismail]] to attempt to account for the [[shadow effect]] in individual [[PPG]] statistics.	+	'''PATH''', or Points per Adjusted Tossups Heard, is a statistic developed by [[Samer Ismail]]<ref>[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=64186#p64186] by [[theMoMA]] » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:08 pm</ref> to attempt to account for the [[shadow effect]] in individual [[PPG]] statistics.
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		+	Though references to the statistic on [[the forums]] date back to at least 2005,<ref>[https://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=27788#p27788] by [[samer]] » Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:22 pm</ref> there is no longer any record of its creation and the original post may have been [[Great Fuckup of 2004\|lost in 2004]]<sup>[speculation]</sup> or simply predated the forums.

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 ==Criticism==
-The formula for PATH assumes that the shadow effect of Player A on Player B is of the same magnitude as the shadow effect of Player A on Player C. Because every player has a unique knowledge base, this assumption is invalid (consider the case of two physics specialists playing together, as opposed to one physics specialist and one history specialist). To counteract these problems by taking advantage of the invention of [[detailed stats]], [[John Lawrence]] proposed [https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=345000#p345000 category-adjusted PATH].
+The formula for PATH assumes that the shadow effect of Player A on Player B is of the same magnitude as the shadow effect of Player A on Player C. Because every player has a unique knowledge base, this assumption is invalid (consider the case of two physics specialists playing together, as opposed to one physics specialist and one history specialist). To counteract these problems by taking advantage of the invention of [[detailed stats]], [[John Lawrence]] proposed category-adjusted PATH<ref>[https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=345000#p345000 Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish] by [[ThisIsMyUsername]] » Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:05 pm]</ref>.
 In addition, the correction for substitutions is mathematically unsound.
 [[Category: Statistics]]

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