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Many people may be aware of the so called Redskins Rule for predicting presidential elections. Basically, the rule states: If the Redskins win their last home game before the election, the party that won the previous election wins the next election and that if the Redskins lose, the challenging party’s candidate wins. This basically means that Romney…
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Rank Team Record 1 ALABAMA 9-0 2 OREGON 9-0 3 KANSAS STATE 9-0 4 NOTRE DAME 9-0 5 FLORIDA 8-1 6 OKLAHOMA 6-2 7 OREGON STATE 7-1 8 TEXAS A&M 7-2 9 OHIO STATE 10-0 10 FLORIDA STATE 8-1 11 STANFORD 7-2 12 GEORGIA 8-1 13 LSU 7-2 14 SO CAROLINA 7-2 15 TEXAS…
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By James O’Connor What does it mean to be the Most Valuable Player in Major League Baseball? Is it the player who added the most wins to his team? The player who added the most wins to his team, so long as they made the playoffs? Can it ever be a pitcher? Is it the…
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This article by David Roher is fantastic: Nate Silver’s Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports The article also pointed me to the Princeton Election Consortium, which is also fantastic. They have the probability of an Obama win at 99.0% and predict an electoral college win of 315-223. Below…
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Overall Records for 2012 SU: 84-48 ATS: 72-60 O/U: 71-57-1 Week 9 (11-3 SU, 6-8 ATS, 6-7-1 O/U) Week 8 (10-4 SU, 9-5 ATS, 9-4 O/U) Week 7 (10-3 SU, 6-7 ATS, 6-7 O/U) Week 6 (6-8 SU, 7-7 ATS, 6-7 O/U) Week 5 (10-4 SU, 7-7 ATS, 7-7 O/U) Week 4 (10-5 SU, 10-5 ATS,…
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I liked this quote from the Deadspin article “The Bill Simmons Problem, In Two Paragraphs“: This is the problem of Bill Simmons: He’s too smart to be as dumb as he used to be. —Tom Scocca Cheers.
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Simply Statistics: On weather forecasts, Nate Silver, and the politicization of statistical illiteracy.
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xkcd has created a great visualization of the United States Congress across. I especially like how you can follow presidents through their time in the House or Senate.
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StatsInTheWild NFL rankings as of October 31, 2012 at 12:34pm. SOS=strength of schedule Team Rank Change Record ESPN TeamRankings.com SOS Points Diff Houston 1 ↑1 6-1 1 2 17 +88 Chicago 2 ↓1 6-1 5 3 9 +85 San Francisco 3 – 6-2 4 5 6 +86 New England 4 ↑4 5-3 8 8 12…
