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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Amoako-Adu, B., H. Marmer, and J. Yagil | The Effeciency of Certain Speculative Markets and Gambler Behavior | Journal of Economics and Business | 37 | 1985 | |
| Bassett, G. W. | Robust Sports Ratings Based on Least Absolute Errors | The American Statistician | 51:2 | 1997 | |
| Bradley, R. A. and M. E. Terry | Rank analysis of incomplete block designs. I. The method of paired comparisons | Biometrika | 39 | 1952 | 324-345 |
| Cook, W., I. Golan and M. Kress | Heuristics for ranking players in round robin tournaments | Computers and Operations Research | 15:2 | 1988 | 135-144 |
| Glickman, M. E., and H. Stern | A State-Space Model for National Football League Scores | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 93 | 1998 | |
| Goddard, S. | Ranking in tournaments and group decission making | Management Science | 29:12 | 1983 | 1384-1392 |
| Harville, D. | The use of Linear-Model Methodolgy to Rate High School or College Football Teams | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 72 | 1977 | |
| Harville, D. | Predictions for National Football League Games with Linear Model Methodology | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 75 | 1980 | |
| Harville, D. | The American Statistician | 48:1 | 1994 | 22-28 | |
| Keener, J. P. | The Perron-Frobenius Theorem and the Rating of Football Teams | SIAM Review | 35:1 | 1993 | 80-93 |
| Leake, R. J. | A Method for Ranking Teams with an Application to 1974 College Football | Management Science in Sports, North Holland Publishing, Amsterdam | 1976 | 27-46 | |
| Mosteller | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 65 | 1970 | 35-48 | |
| Pankoff | The Journal of Business | 41 | 1968 | 203-214 | |
| R. A. Zuber, J. M. Gander, and B. D. Bowers. | Beating the Spread: Testing the Efficiency of the Gambling Market for National Football League Games | Journal of Political Economy | 93 | 1985 | |
| Revo | Proc. of the American Statistical Association | II | 1976 | 709-710 | |
| Rosner | Management Science in Sports, North Holland Publishing, Amsterdam | 1976 | 67-78 | ||
| Stefani, R. T. | Football and Basketball Predictions Using Least Squares | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics | 7 | 1977 | |
| Stefani, R. T. | Improved Least Squares Football Basketball, and Soccer Predictions | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics | 10:2 | 1980 | |
| Stern, H. | Who's Number One?-Rating Football Teams | Proceedings of the Section on Statistics in Sport | 1992 | ||
| Stern, H. | On the Probability of Winning a Football Game | The American Statistician | 45 | 1992 | |
| Stern, H. | Who's Number 1 in College Football?... and How Might We Decide? | Chance | 8:3 | 1995 | |
| Stob | Management Science | 31:9 | 1985 | 1191-1195 | |
| Thomson, M. L. | On Any Given Sunday: Fair Competitor Orderings with Maximum Likelihood Methods | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 70 | 1975 | |
| Trytos | Management Science | 30 | 1984 | 123-132 | |
| Versin | Management Science | 24 | 1978 | 809 | |
| Wilson, R. L. | The 'Real' Mythical College Football Champion | Operation Research / Management Science Today | 1995 | 24-29 | |
| Wilson, R. L. | Ranking College Football Teams: A Neural Network Approach | Interfaces | 25:4 | 1995 | 44-59 |
| Zuber et al. | Journal of Political Economy | 93 | 1985 | 800-806 |