2008 Week 8 (26-27 Oct) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 77%   1 New England             23 33.9,    28 St. Louis               16 21.6
 75%   7 New York Jets           28 30.1,    29 Kansas City             24 19.0
 70%  15 Baltimore               29 27.5,    30 Oakland                 10 17.8
 66%   2 Dallas                  13 27.8,    16 Tampa Bay                9 21.3
 65%   5 Tennessee               31 27.0,    19 Indianapolis            21 20.9
 63%   6 Philadelphia            27 26.1,    17 Atlanta                 14 21.4
 62%   8 Carolina                27 28.4,    13 Arizona                 23 24.4
 56%  24 Miami                   25 23.6,    21 Buffalo                 16 22.2
 51%  18 New Orleans             37 28.6,    10 San Diego               32 28.4

 48%  22 Washington              25 24.6,    27 Detroit                 17 25.1
 41%  25 Seattle                 34 23.7,    23 San Francisco           13 25.9
 37%  12 New York Giants         21 20.8,     4 Pittsburgh              14 25.8
 33%  32 Houston                 35 26.5,    26 Cincinnati               6 33.5
 21%  31 Cleveland               23 19.0,     9 Jacksonville            17 34.0

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                4 0.92   7 1.10   3 0.87   0 0.00   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,expected,num_right/expected):  14   9   9.0 0.99

  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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