Jason's Thesis Page

This is a slowly growing page of files, documents, web pages, programs and everything else under the sun related to my masters thesis. As I add documents, I will link them from this page, so you will always be able to track my progress (and I will too)

The Thesis Document Constantly updated as it develops.

Documents:

Thesis Proposal The important document! added 5:34 PM 5/15/01
The effects of 'Days Off' on home game attendance added 9:02 AM 5/16/01 (updated 11:41 AM 5/16/01)
Milage Analysis of the Central Hockey League 1996-97 Schedule added 2:52 PM 5/16/01
Hungarian Algorithm in C. I created this by running the FORTRAN version through Bell Lab's f2c conversion program. added 5:02 PM 5/16/01.
Transportation Algorithm in C. Copied from the Pascal version in Discrete Optimization Algorithms with Pascal Programs. by Macie M Syslo, Narsingh Deo, and Janusz S. Kowalik. This will be modified later to run the assignment version of the transportation algorithm. added 3:01 PM 5/18/01.
My Home Date Drafting Program added 5:50 PM 5/24/01.
- memphis2001.txt-Memphis's available dates for the 2001-2002 season. (Note they submit 47 dates, 35 are chosen. Also the file is not in the format my program requires) added 11:03 AM 5/31/01.
Three of my early game selection algorithms added 7:20 PM 5/24/01.
An analysis of the effects of changing opponents in two game stands on attendance added 11:09 AM 5/25/01.
Analysis and correction of the "Thrashing" late in the schedule. added 4:45 PM 6/4/01.
Further analysis of "Thrashing" and the addition of a milage "cap". added 6:48 PM 6/5/01.
Analysis of prior home dates 1995-2000. added 9:28 AM 6/11/01.
In depth analysis of the Strength and Discourage Factors. added 3:08 PM 6/13/01.
Testing the 3 Variables added 5:57 PM 6/19/01.

Communications:

My email to Mike Meyers , head of Special Assignments for the Central Hockey League. added 7:31 AM 5/24/01
Mike Meyers' reply. added 7:32 AM 5/24/01

Links:

Assignment Algorithm in FORTRAN
Fortran to C converter hosted by Bell-Labs. (See my notes )

Files:

95travel.xls- An excel file analysing 95-96 season travel added 8:03 AM 5/17/01
96travel.xls- An excel file analysing 96-97 season travel added 8:04 AM 5/17/01
97travel.xls- An excel file analysing 97-98 season travel added 11:21 AM 6/5/01 (Thanks to Marc Foster for the data)
98travel.xls- An excel file analysing 98-98 season travel added 8:04 AM 5/17/01
99travel.xls- An excel file analysing 99-00 season travel added 11:21 AM 6/5/01 (Thanks to Marc Foster for the data)
00atravel.xls- An excel file analysing 00-01 PLANNED* season travel added 10:14 AM 5/31/01
00travel.xls- An excel file analysing 00-01 ACTUAL* season travel added 9:10 AM 5/24/01
thrashing.xls- An excel file analysing the "Thrashing" effect of the schedule. (Chart 1 and the last 3 sets of data on Sheet 1) added 4:45 PM 6/4/01.

*Border City (Texarkana, TX) Folded mid-season, and Topeka's schedule underwent major changes mid season, so the ACTUAL schedule differs from the PLANNED schedule.

You can contact me at: jasonj1052@aol.com
Last update 6:48 PM 6/5/01