Monday, September 26, 2005

Big Ten Predictions Accuracy

Here's the difference between our predicted point spread vs. actual point spread.

Who hit? Who missed? Look inside to find out.

5 comments:

Jay said...

Jay -- Total 54

Wis - 1
MSU - 12
MN - 17
PSU - 5
OSU – 25

Andy – Total 64

Wis - 10
MSU - 31
MN - 2
PSU - 7
OSU – 14

Shawn – Total 79

Wis - 7
MSU - 32
MN - 21
PSU - 57
OSU – 12

Matt’s “correct” answers – 85

Wis - 4
MSU - 25
MN - 25
PSU - 8
OSU – 23

Jay said...

Shawn's Penn State pick should be 7 not 57.

Matt said...

Huh? These numbers don't make any sense. This is more Goodger fuzzy math!

Jay said...
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Jay said...

They should make sense. They are simply the difference between your predicted outcome and the actual outcome. If the score was 7 - 0 and you said it would be 10 - 3, the difference would be 0 -- both outcomes have a spread of 7. If you had said 10 - 0 then the difference would be 3. The closer to zero, the more accurate the prediction. Unfortunately, a cursury look at this I made a few minor math errors -- but, oh well, I was never a math major.