John and Ralph (I think) have pointed out that the normalization factors in "Yet Another" ranking method are unnecessary. After pondering my navel for a couple of seconds, I guess I have to agree. Multiplication is associative and commutative regardless of how one picks the factors:-) But the rationale for the method is still valid even if it does reduce to the product of win%, opp win%, and opp-opp win% normalized to the maximum of the opp win% - opp-opp win% products. John also pointed out that we could just as well scale the top team to 1.0, but I think I would prefer to leave the scaling as is since those values give a *little* bit more information to the reader. Sorry for getting wound up in engineering type reasoning. -- Dick Tuthill