2005 Week 1 (8-12 Sep) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 80%   1 New England             30 27.0,    28 Oakland                 20 13.1
 79%   2 Pittsburgh              34 27.4,    29 Tennessee                7 14.7
 77%   7 Buffalo                 22 20.7,    26 Houston                  7 11.1
 68%  19 Jacksonville            26 19.4,    23 Seattle                 14 13.9
 64%  27 New York Giants         42 18.9,    30 Arizona                 19 14.7
 63%  20 Washington               9 12.4,    25 Chicago                  7  8.1
 62%  32 San Francisco           28 23.4,    31 St. Louis               25 20.3
 61%  15 Detroit                 17 20.3,    12 Green Bay                3 17.5
 60%   8 Kansas City             27 25.7,     5 New York Jets            7 23.7
 55%  24 Miami                   34 16.9,    14 Denver                  10 16.1

 49%   4 Indianapolis            24 20.8,     9 Baltimore                7 21.1
 44%  13 Atlanta                 14 17.0,     3 Philadelphia            10 17.9
 42%  11 Cincinnati              27 19.0,    22 Cleveland               13 20.3
 41%  10 Tampa Bay               24 18.7,    18 Minnesota               13 20.4
 37%  17 New Orleans             23 16.8,    16 Carolina                20 20.4
 27%  21 Dallas                  28 17.9,     6 San Diego               24 25.9

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                6 0.59   6 1.31   3 0.88   1 1.24   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,expected,num_right/expected):  16  10  10.3 0.97

  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: exact predicted scores are not released until after game time.

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