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- The following files should be contained in the ARC file. They are:
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- FOOT1985.EXE (The football predicting program)
- FOOT1985.DAT (The initial ratings for the 1985 season)
- WEEK#1.DOC (The predictions for the first week of the season based on the
- initial ratings included in FOOT1985.DAT)
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- After the first weekly results are completed, the program will generate a file
- called CMLT1985.DAT which will contain the cumulative statistics for all the
- teams.
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- To use the program, type FOOT1985 and press enter.
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- The program will ask you if you want instructions, if you do, read the
- instructions.
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- The next question will ask you if you want a printout. If you answer Yes,
- it will then ask you how many copies you want. Then will will ask for the
- names of the persons for whom the copies are being made. If they are not
- being made for a particular person, just hit enter for each name request.
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- The next question will ask you what week it is. You must enter the week
- number of the football season that was just completed, that is the week
- number for which you intend to enter statistics. If you enter week # 1,
- the program will ask you if you want to verify the schedule. This is not
- necessary because the schedule has already been verified. If you would like
- to verify the schedule, feel free to do so.
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- The next question that will appear if week # 1 was selected is whether or
- not you want to enter the initial ratings for the teams. This should not
- be done, because I have already done so with the file FOOT1985.DAT. This
- file contains the ratings based on several years of data, and I don't
- recommend that you change the values provided. Therefore, answer NO to this
- question.
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- The next questions are easy to answer, the program will ask you for the points
- scored by each team for the week # selected. If a data entry error is made,
- press CONTROL-BREAK and start over with everything. I have not yet set
- up a routine to correct errors once the data has been entered.
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- Once all data is entered, the results will be displayed on the CRT or printed
- to your printer (depending on whether or not you requested printouts or not).
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- The results will show how well the computer did in determining which teams
- would win or lose. It will also provides cumulative statistics of average
- points scored and given up; cumulative wins and losses, cumulative wins
- and losses versus the computer spreads, and finally the predictions for
- the next weeks games.
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- *** IMPORTANT Make sure you let the computer complete the printing of all
- copies or finish displaying all reports before stopping the program. The pro-
- gram updates the FOOT1985.DAT and CMLT1985.DAT files after all displaying/
- Printing is completed.
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- Each year I will upload a new version of the program with the new schedule in
- it.
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- Have fun !!
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