{"id":174,"date":"2020-07-21T23:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2020-07-21T23:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:48:23","slug":"mixed-doubles-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/mixed-doubles-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed doubles ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I added some <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/mixed_doubles\" target=\"_blank\">mixed doubles ratings<\/a> over the weekend. I don&#8217;t really follow mixed doubles and I have to say that after cranking out these ratings, my interest has not increased! The top teams rarely play each other and there are just so many fewer games world-wide than traditional curling. Also, there&#8217;s a wild mix of full-time mixed-doubles teams and people like John Morris who were basically pairing up with whomever was available on a particular weekend. And some of these teams do not respect international boundaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the bright side, it&#8217;s a good test of the Bradley-Terry method, which curiously rates three-loss Muirhead\/Lammie as slightly better than undefeated Jones\/Laing. The ratings really should be individualized to handle all the mid-season team swappage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worlds are not until <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcurling.org\/events\/wmdcc2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">late April with location TBA<\/a> after being cancelled last season. Maybe it&#8217;s back to Kelowna if possible, otherwise someplace where the public health and travel situations will allow a competition. Short of a personal plea from Kristin Skaslien, I might not get back these until the lead up to that event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I added some mixed doubles ratings over the weekend. I don&#8217;t really follow mixed doubles and I have to say that after cranking out these ratings, my interest has not increased! The top teams rarely play each other and there are just so many fewer games world-wide than traditional curling. Also, there&#8217;s a wild mix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubletakeout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}