2008 Week 16 (18-22 Dec) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 70%  27 Oakland                 27 36.0,    32 Houston                 16 24.6
 69%   1 New England             47 32.8,    22 Arizona                  7 25.2
 63%  29 Cincinnati              14 30.2,    31 Cleveland                0 25.3
 61%   2 Tennessee               31 26.4,     3 Pittsburgh              14 22.6
 60%  14 New Orleans             42 30.7,    30 Detroit                  7 27.9
 59%  12 Chicago                 20 28.3,    10 Green Bay               17 26.0
 59%   5 New York Giants         34 26.5,     4 Carolina                28 24.3
 53%  20 San Francisco           17 26.0,    28 St. Louis               16 25.2
 52%  18 Washington              10 23.9,     8 Philadelphia             3 23.5
 50%  19 Miami                   38 25.2,    26 Kansas City             31 25.1

 48%  23 Seattle                 13 25.8,     6 New York Jets            3 26.3
 46%   9 Indianapolis            31 24.8,    16 Jacksonville            24 25.8
 39%  24 Buffalo                 30 24.4,    21 Denver                  23 27.8
 39%  11 Atlanta                 24 25.7,     7 Minnesota               17 29.3
 38%  25 San Diego               41 24.6,    17 Tampa Bay               24 28.7
 38%  15 Baltimore               33 23.3,    13 Dallas                  24 27.1

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                7 1.31   8 0.80   1 1.43   0 0.00   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,expected,num_right/expected):  16  10   9.5 1.05

  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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