USAGE INSTRUCTIONS
Thank you for your interest in the Born Power Index!
The Born Power Index strives to make this service as versatile, informative
and user friendly as possible. The Born Power Index now supports more search
options that allow the users to have more control over the search results.
However, knowing what the result will return can get confusing due to the
multiple options available to the user. This page is intended to clear up
most questions you may have. Please read the following, and if you still
have questions please direct them to the
Webmaster.
Clicking on a title will give further details and examples.
Please click here for general information
about the Born Power Index!
General Features in All Searches
- The state (or College if not a state) and sport that
you are about to search is listed at the top of the page.
- The date when that section of the database was last updated
- The 'Born Batting Average' for that section is given.
It is a 'win' if the index predicted the victor correctly,
and a 'loss' if it predicted incorrectly
- There is a checkbox for every field that can be returned. You can
select as many or as few as you like. However,
if you select too many fields, the results may become cramped and
difficult to read.
- A button that says 'Send the query' will submit the data and return
the results of your query when clicked.
- There is also a link that says "I'm confused! Help!' This link
will take you to a page with further details on how to use the
search, and it includes examples.
Classification Search
- There is an option box that has the Classification names
for that section. Select the Classification of interest and
all teams in that Classification will be returned.
- There is an option to sort the returned data by Team (school)
or Rating. This allows you to see where your team stands in its
respective classification, or have the results listed by team so you
can find your school easily.
- The 'Help?' button will return every school and its respective
classification name and number that are in the database for
that section (eg. NJ Football).
Conference Search
- There is an option box that has the Conference numbers
for that section. Select the Conference of interest and
all teams in that Conference will be returned.
- There is an option to sort the returned data by Team (school)
or Rating. This allows you to see where your team stands in its
respective classification, or have the results listed by team so you
can find your school easily.
- The 'Help?' button will return every school and its respective
conference name and number that are in the database for
that section (eg. NJ Football).
Rating Search
- You have an option on how you want to search the database
when you are searching by Rating.
- You can search by providing a range of ratings to return
- Alternatively, you can search for the teams that are in the
top or bottom xx percent for that section.
- The program first checks to see if you have provided a percentage,
and if you have it checks to see whether you want the top or bottom teams.
If you do not select top or bottom, it assumes you did not want to search
by percentage and it will take the range that is left in the option boxes
above. In other words, the program starts looking at the bottom of the
form and works its way up until it finds an option with all of the
necessary input to get results.
Report Card Search
- You have three choices of how you want to search the database
when you are searching by Report Card.
- You can search by providing a range of ratings to return
- Alternatively, you can search for the teams that are in the
top or bottom xx percent for that section. It returns the
specified percentage of the teams and sorts them by their rating.
- Lastly, you can track the progress of your team throughout
the season by selecting the number of weeks you want to trace
the report cards back. If you choose a number greater than the
number of report card entries, all report card entries will be
returned. The first value is the most recent as indicated by the
week number
- The program starts looking at the bottom of the
form and works its way up until it finds an option with all of the
necessary input for that search option. So, if there is a number in
the 'Number of Weeks' field, it will run that search. If 'top' or
'bottom' is selected AND there is a number in the 'Percent' field, it
will search for the percent. If neither of those requirements are met,
it searches the range.
Projection Calculator
- This feature will calculate the predicted relative strength for a
game between the two selected teams.
- You must first select the letter that each team begins with
to load the teams that start with that letter. Then, you select
the team from the list.
- A non-javascript version is available but not default to save
bandwidth. Simply follow the links to the non-javascript page if
you need it.
- No new functionality has been added to this feature.
Team Search
- There is an option box that has the letters of the alphabet in it.
Select the first letter of the school name of interest and all schools
starting with that letter will be returned.
- There is an option to sort the returned data by Team (school)
or Rating. The results will be sorted accordingly.
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