2008 Week 17 (28 Dec) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 78%  11 Pittsburgh              31 34.6,    32 Cleveland                0 19.4
 72%  12 Green Bay               31 33.1,    30 Detroit                 21 23.7
 65%   3 Baltimore               27 26.1,    22 Jacksonville             7 20.1
 64%  14 Atlanta                 31 28.6,    26 St. Louis               27 22.7
 63%  17 San Francisco           27 25.9,    24 Washington              24 21.2
 63%   6 Philadelphia            44 26.6,    15 Dallas                   6 22.5
 61%  18 San Diego               52 30.0,    20 Denver                  21 26.9
 61%   2 Indianapolis            23 27.3,     7 Tennessee                0 23.5
 60%  25 Cincinnati              16 27.7,    28 Kansas City              6 24.9
 60%   5 Minnesota               20 28.2,     4 New York Giants         19 25.5
 55%   1 New England             13 27.4,    16 Buffalo                  0 26.3

 49%  27 Arizona                 34 27.3,    23 Seattle                 21 27.6
 40%   9 Carolina                33 26.0,     8 New Orleans             31 28.5
 39%  19 Miami                   24 23.3,    13 New York Jets           17 26.3
 33%  29 Oakland                 31 20.6,    21 Tampa Bay               24 27.8
 27%  31 Houston                 31 25.2,    10 Chicago                 24 35.6

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                3 0.60  10 1.28   3 0.90   0 0.00   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,expected,num_right/expected):  16  11  10.1 1.09

  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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