{"id":261,"date":"2014-08-13T19:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2014-08-13T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:20:46","slug":"chris-cant-eat-these-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/chris-cant-eat-these-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t eat these stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mathgoespop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mathematician.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the tour approaches the kickoff for BBPT VI: Bobby&#8217;s World, the league&#8217;s &#8220;Wizard of Excel&#8221; has mic dropped a new spreadsheet for all to revel in. Phil has extrapolated 5 years of poker data to introduce rankings (first time in BBPT history) for this upcoming season. <\/p>\n<p>Phil explains:<br \/>\n<em>I used Minutes Played, Average Points \u2014 top seven finishes, Cashing Frequency, Wins (Average\/year for all time), and Final Tables (Average per year all time). In each category, I used 50% from all time stats vs 50% for Season 5 to come up with ordinal rankings 1 to 18.  The better your score, the better you rank.  Hence, person with the lowest score stats showing they are the better player.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBPTrankings.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/BBPTrankings.jpg\" alt=\"BBPTrankings\" width=\"197\" height=\"379\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the tour approaches the kickoff for BBPT VI: Bobby&#8217;s World, the league&#8217;s &#8220;Wizard of Excel&#8221; has mic dropped a new spreadsheet for all to revel in. Phil has extrapolated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}