2001 Week 18 (6-7 Jan) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 88%   1 St. Louis               31 39.2,    27 Atlanta                 13 17.2
 82%   7 New England             38 25.1,    31 Carolina                 6 10.4
 80%   5 Pittsburgh              28 27.8,    25 Cleveland                7 14.0
 79%   8 Baltimore               19 24.8,    26 Minnesota                3 13.1
 73%  12 San Francisco           38 27.9,    29 New Orleans              0 19.6
 69%  18 Miami                   34 21.7,    24 Buffalo                  7 15.6
 67%  15 Washington              20 22.2,    21 Arizona                 17 16.6
 67%   3 Chicago                 33 18.9,     9 Jacksonville            13 14.1
 67%   2 Green Bay               34 21.6,    14 New York Giants         25 16.4
 61%  16 Seattle                 21 23.2,    20 Kansas City             18 20.2
 53%  19 Indianapolis            29 31.0,    13 Denver                  10 30.5

 46%  30 Detroit                 15 18.4,    28 Dallas                  10 19.0
 30%  10 Philadelphia            17 14.1,     4 Tampa Bay               13 20.1
 28%  23 Cincinnati              23 15.8,    11 Tennessee               21 23.7
 27%  17 New York Jets           24 15.0,     6 Oakland                 22 22.6

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                2 0.94   6 1.25   4 0.67   3 1.20   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,num_right/expected):  15  11 1.04

  actual/expected = 1 -- model right on
  actual/expected > 1 -- model probabilities too low (more wins than expected)
  actual/expected < 1 -- model probabilities too high (less wins than expected)

NOTE: predicted scores are not released until after game time

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