2005 Week 16 (24-26 Dec) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 80%   4 Denver                  22 28.9,    22 Oakland                  3 14.4
 77%  13 Baltimore               30 24.2,    27 Minnesota               23 11.9
 70%   8 Jacksonville            38 24.8,    32 Houston                 20 17.0
 67%  20 Tampa Bay               27 23.6,    16 Atlanta                 24 17.0
 64%  19 Miami                   24 24.2,    15 Tennessee               10 18.8
 64%   7 Pittsburgh              41 20.2,    24 Cleveland                0 15.3
 62%   3 New England             31 21.6,    25 New York Jets           21 18.2
 55%  11 Washington              35 19.9,     6 New York Giants         20 19.1
 53%  14 Kansas City             20 26.0,     2 San Diego                7 25.3

 44%   9 Dallas                  24 20.4,    12 Carolina                20 21.6
 40%  30 Detroit                 13 20.1,    29 New Orleans             12 22.2
 40%  28 Arizona                 27 17.8,    21 Philadelphia            21 20.3
 37%  17 Seattle                 28 21.2,     1 Indianapolis            13 25.8
 35%  10 Chicago                 24 15.2,    18 Green Bay               17 20.5
 27%  31 San Francisco           24 18.1,    23 St. Louis               20 30.1
 25%  26 Buffalo                 37 15.8,     5 Cincinnati              27 25.9

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                4 0.90   8 0.97   4 0.66   0 0.00   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,expected,num_right/expected):  16   9  10.4 0.86

  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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