September 16th, 2009NHL 2009-2010 season Schedule (csv download)
The 2009–10 NHL season will be the 92nd season of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the 100th season since the founding of the predecessor National Hockey Association (NHA). It will run from October 1, 2009 with four games in Europe, until April 12, 2010, with the Stanley Cup playoffs to follow, all the way up to early June 2010. A mid-season break from February 15 to February 28 will occur to allow participation of NHL players in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Because of the Winter Olympics break there will be no NHL All Star Game for 2010.
I was wondering if there was a comma separated (csv/xls) file with the full schedule of 2009 for all NHL teams. However I was disappointed to see that there was no where I could find this.
Thus I took 10 mins to prepare this consolidated schedule for full season of 2009 for all NHL teams into a comma separated (csvxls) format.
To Download (free): Click here
Enjoy!
Courtesy - NHL Site
September 13th, 2009Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13
- Good night!!! #
- Booking domain for Guptaji… #
- Saw Piyush Maru today in 496 bus, he was going home and I was also heading home
# - Did you know this? http://www.harshadnarvekar.com/?p=67 #
- Had dinner and now back to enternet #
- Do I forget things…hmmmm…..I just forgot that
# - Spoke with my childhood friend Nitin who is in dubai, sorry qatar, sorry saudi…some where there…I forgot … #
- I bcam an active user on FB thanks to the F8 app,: http://bit.ly/60IhC #
- Bought 5 books but forgot to buy time #
- World Cup without Argentina , after 70 odd years? May be it is Okay, becoz Maradona is their coach and may get away with this one as well.. #
- Good Night!! #
September 9th, 2009How FIFA Rankings Work?
Let’s try and break this up and have a look at how it’s done. There are four main parameters upon which the number of points scored by a team in a match is determined.
1) Firstly, points are awarded for the result. Three points for victory, one for a draw, and none for defeat. In case of penalties, the winning team gains two points, and the losing team gets one. Let’s call this parameter A.
2) Then comes the importance of the fixture. Let’s call this factor B. Here’s how this factor takes its value:
Friendly matches - 1.0
WC Qualifier & Continental Qualifier - 2.5
Continental final competition and COnfederations Cup - 3.0
World Cup final competition - 4.0
3) This factor gives importance to the strength of the opposition. The team at the top of the rankings is given the value 2.0, and the rest are calculated as per this formula:
(200-Rank) / 100.
Which means that if someone is playing 6th ranked Russia, they would have this value equal to 1.94. However, if the opposition is ranked 150th or below, this value is kept at a minimum of 0.50. Let’s call this factor C.
4) This gives importance to the strength of the confederation. If an inter-continental match is being played, the value that’s taken into consideration is the mean value of both confederation’s strength factors. These values are calculated using the number of victories for their confederation’s teams in the last three World Cups. These are the current values. Let’s call this D.
UEFA - 1.00
CONMEBOL - 0.98
CONACAF - 0.85
AFC - 0.85
CAF - 0.85
OFC - 0.85
Taking these four factors into consideration, the total number of points amassed by a team in a match is calculated. The total number of points gathered by a team in one game can be given by:
Total Points (P) = A x B x C x D x 100
The points amassed per match don’t decide the net score alone. An average score of all matches played in the last twelve months is calculated. The average is combined with averages from earlier games, which are devalued as time goes on. The weightage given to games in the last four years decrease with each year (100%,50%,30%,20%).
So for example, let’s take the Nehru Cup final between India and Syria, and calculate how many points India scored in that game.
For that match:
A = 2 (They won on penalties)
B = 1.0 (These matches are counted as friendlies)
C = (200-95)/100 = 1.05 (Syria were ranked 95 in the world)
D = 0.85 (Strength factor of AFC is 0.85)
Therefore, the total number of points amassed by India in that game was:
(2 x 1 x 1.05 x 0.85 x 100) = 178.5
That’s hardly a high number, as the maximum points a team can gain from a match is 2400.
And from the victories against Krygyztan and Sri Lanka, India garnered a total of 255 points. The final against Syria WAS NOT counted for the new rankings, so India should move further up once October’s rankings are announced.
Taking another example, where more points were scored in a game, let’s take the World Cup 2006 Quarter Final between France and Brazil and calculate the points using the current system.
Brazil lost and scored zero points.
For France:
A = 3 (Won in normal time)
B = 4.0 (It was a World Cup game)
C = 2.0 (Brazil were ranked No.1 at the time)
D = (1 + 0.98)/2 = 0.99 (Taking the mean of the strength factors of UEFA & CONMEBOL)
Total Points = (3 x 4 x 2 x .99 x 100) = 2376
So that was an example of a game where close to maximum points were scored by a team.
Courtesy to : Goal.com
September 6th, 2009Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06
- Came from lunch and reading this Negotiation is a dialogue intended to resolve disputes,….. http://www.harshadnarvekar.com/?p=48 - #
- Always listen to your heart first and their your brain…and ofcourse after that do what your wife says (read GF who are not married) #
- Dont know why people keep talking about others. Why cant they stop #
- Advantages of a twitter plug-in on blogs- http://bit.ly/q7oiY #
- Watched MTV - Rock On repeat telecast, reinvigorated me…Wow! I feel like learning music #
- Good Night #
- Made a F8 (facebook app) in 15 mins Very happy!! #
- Team break banta hai!! #
- Back…In weekend mood!! #
- @patilstar I agree with you completely … JM #
- Good night #
- Teachers day http://myowndomain.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/teachers2.jpg -Why not,but it is little costly #
- Preparing for another adventure…lets see what happens… #
September 3rd, 2009Does tweets (from twitter) help to increase your seo ranking?
Recently I saw twitter tool integrated on 1 of the blog. I thought to my self what a well-chosen plug-in it is to be used on your blog. I immediately integrated the plug-in on to my blog.
The features were simple and straight forward, however very effective.
1) You can Post tweets from the blog itself.
2) You can show the last few tweets on your blog.
3) (The most adored one) You can make post of your each tweet, or you can post the entire weeks or months tweets as a post on the blog and that too automatically.
Here is a snapshot of the settings:
Thus we can keep updating our blogs daily, or weekly basis. This means you keep track of your daily rather min by min detail. Isnt that great!! Keeping a track of min by min details on your online diary?
I think this tool is great and will post blog post on your behalf. Increase in the post shall increase the number of pages and that in turn may increase your seo ranking, isnt it?
