Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorized by the United States Congress.
Similarity score. In Sabermetrics and APBRmetrics, similarity scores are a method of comparing baseball and basketball players (usually in MLB or the NBA) to other players, with the intent of discovering who the most similar historical players are to a certain player. Similarity scores are among the many original sabermetric concepts first introduced by Bill James.
Percentile Ranks. Percentile ranks describe a student's relative standing in a comparison group on a scale of 1 to 99. The student's percentile rank indicates the percentage of students from the comparison group who had scores the same of lower than the student's score.A student's percentile rank of 68 indicates that 68% of the comparison group had scores the same or lower than the student's score.The table below provides the classification of standard scores and percentile ranks of the WJIII DRB. student's percentile rank of 68 indicates that 68% of the comparison group had scores the same or lower than the student's score.