<<Granted, I realize that no tournaments
release the statistics necessary to determine the effects
of opponents' scoring on an individual player's
scoring. And I realize that giving out all-star awards by
PPG also favors players with weaker opponents, all
else being equal. But if you're going to hand out
awards based on an imperfect statistic, I'd rather use
PPG--which at least bears a closer resemblance to what
actually happened over the course of the
tournament.>>
There are two major drawbacks to including opponent
strength:
(1) Very few tournaments calculate/release these
statistics, as Ed pointed out.
(2) I am not certain as
to exactly how opponent strength *should* be taken
into account. I have a couple of ideas, but as I've
said before, I'm open to suggestions.
--STI