Saturday, December 14, 2013

From the Data to the Super Bowl - Week 15 predictions

Firstly- this is a work in progress but as promised here are the picks for this week. This is a pretty straight forward week. The two games to watch will be the Hou/Ind and NE/MIA. The data points to a possible upset occurring.

Some quick notes:

1. As you can see it was wrong about the Thursday night game. In my defense- everyone was wrong about Thursday game. 

2. The level of certainty is based on the probability of one team winning. Each estimate has a range around it.  The higher that range is the more certain we are. Very few predictions come out with 95% certainty most of them have varying levels.  I tried to categorize them to help better predict in the future.

3. Just like I mentioned in the last post- I did not take into account home field and injuries. These are future works.

4. Thanks for all the feedback into better completing the rankings and now the predictions. This is a work in progress.

5. I also picked one of the more popular analysts online to see how we match up against them. This week is not that much fun since everything aligns pretty well.


Game Predicted Winner Level of Certainty Vegas Odds Adam From ESPN
SD @ DEN DEN Low DEN DEN
WSH @ ATL ATL High ATL ATL
CHI @ CLE CHI Medium CHI CHI
HOU @ IND HOU Very Low IND IND
NE @ MIA MIA Very Low NE MIA
PHI @ MIN PHI Very low PHI PHI
SEA @ NYG SEA Very High SEA SEA
SF @ TB SF High SF SF
BUF @ JAX BUF Low BUF JAX
KC @ OAK KC Very High KC KC
NYJ @ CAR CAR Very High CAR CAR
GB @ DAL DAL Low DAL DAL
ARI @ TEN ARI Very High ARI ARI
NO @ STL NO Low NO NO
CIN @ PIT CIN Low CIN PIT
BAL @ DET BAL Very Low DET DET

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