2002 Postseason: Wild Card (4-5 Jan) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 76%   5 Pittsburgh              36 26.5,    22 Cleveland               33 16.6
 74%   6 New York Jets           41 27.9,    16 Indianapolis             0 18.9

 41%  13 Atlanta                 27 19.1,    14 Green Bay                7 20.9
 39%  15 San Francisco           39 18.0,     7 New York Giants         38 20.7

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                1 0.00   1 0.00   2 1.33   0 0.00   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,expected,num_right/expected):   4   2   2.7 0.74

  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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