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  • Originally posted on God plays dice: ” Mr. Speaker, I rise today to announce the discovery of a new breakthrough in mathematics in the theory of vector bundles.” – Jerry McNerney, in US Congress last week. (Thanks to David Farris for finding this.)

  • NFL predictions – Week 15

    Overall Records for 2012 SU: 140-83-1 (62.72% ) ATS: 122-101-1 (54.69%, +15.95 units, 7.12% ROI) O/U: 118-100-3 (53.39%, +13 units, 5.88% ROI) Week 15 (10-6 SU, 7-9 ATS, 11-4-1 O/U) Week 14 (10-6 SU, 7-9 ATS, 5-11 O/U) Week 13 (9-7 SU, 10-6 ATS, 8-8 O/U) Week 12 (9-7 SU, 8-7-1 ATS, 10-6 O/U) Week…

  • NFL playoff probabilities

  • RIPPEN – 12-11-2012

    RIPPEN for week 14   Rank Player Team RIPPEN QB_Rating 1 Robert Griffin III WAS 36.11 102.4 2 Colin Kaepernick SF 35.34 100.2 3 Peyton Manning DEN 29.32 95.8 4 Cam Newton CAR 26.71 110.1 5 Brandon Weeden CLE 25.67 79.4 6 Nick Foles PHI 25.26 98.6 7 Jason Campbell CHI 25.14 124.3 8 Joe…

  • NCAA Basketball Rankings – 12/11/2012

      Rank Team Record Strength 1 MICHIGAN 9-0 77.85 2 DUKE 9-0 77.34 3 INDIANA 9-0 76.8 4 ILLINOIS 10-0 76.56 5 MINNESOTA 10-1 75.63 6 SYRACUSE 8-0 75.33 7 LOUISVILLE 8-1 75.04 8 KANSAS 7-1 74.46 9 PITTSBURGH 9-1 74.44 10 ARIZONA 7-0 73.89 11 FLORIDA 7-0 73.82 12 OHIO STATE 6-1 73.18 13…

  • NFL Rankings – 12/11/2012

    StatsInTheWild NFL rankings as of December 6, 2012 at 12:34pm.  SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record Projected Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Prob Make Playoffs New England 1 – 10-3 12-4   1 17 100% San Francisco 2 ↑1 9-3-1 11-4-1   4 4 96.85% Houston 3 ↓1 11-2 13-3   3 21 100% Denver…

  • NFL playoff probability

    Here are some NFL play-off probability plots from R that have been spruced up quite a bit thanks to a friend who dabbles in the visual arts. Miami’s week 9 loss to the colts was very costly.  Of course the Dolphins didn’t help themselves very much with a week 10 loss to the Titans 37-3.…

  • RIPPEN after week 13

    Week 13 Rank Player Team RIPPEN QB_Rating 1 Brady Quinn KC 38.22 132.1 2 Tony Romo DAL 33.99 150.5 3 Aaron Rodgers GB 31.44 98.0 4 Eli Manning NYG 30.32 98.0 5 Brandon Weeden CLE 26.48 88.2 6 Nick Foles PHI 26.31 96.6 7 Jay Cutler CHI 24.78 119.6 8 Russell Wilson SEA 24.45 104.9…

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  • NFL Predictions – Week 14

    Overall Records for 2012 SU: 130-77-1 (62.74% ) ATS: 115-92-1 (55.53%, +18.4 units, 17.04% ROI) O/U: 107-96-2 (52.68%, +6.2 units, 3.02% ROI) Week 14 (10-6 SU, 7-9 ATS, 5-11 O/U) Week 13 (9-7 SU, 10-6 ATS, 8-8 O/U) Week 12 (9-7 SU, 8-7-1 ATS, 10-6 O/U) Week 11 (12-2 SU, 11-3 ATS, 5-8-1 O/U) Week 10…