2001 Week 8 (28-29 Oct) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 79%   5 Baltimore               18 20.5,    22 Jacksonville            17  9.2
 74%   3 Pittsburgh              34 24.9,    18 Tennessee                7 16.2
 72%  12 San Diego               27 27.4,    23 Buffalo                 24 19.0
 67%  26 Dallas                  17 23.4,    30 Arizona                  3 17.6
 63%  14 Chicago                 37 20.2,    20 San Francisco           31 16.7
 62%   1 Oakland                 20 22.0,     6 Philadelphia            10 18.5
 61%  15 Indianapolis            35 25.9,    25 Kansas City             28 23.1
 61%   8 Tampa Bay               41 22.8,     9 Minnesota               14 19.8
 58%  21 New York Jets           13 19.8,    28 Carolina                12 18.5

 46%  27 Cincinnati              31 17.3,    29 Detroit                 27 17.9
 40%  19 Denver                  31 20.1,    10 New England             20 22.3
 39%  13 Miami                   24 17.8,    11 Seattle                 20 20.5
 19%  16 New Orleans             34 17.2,     2 St. Louis               31 33.0
 15%  31 Washington              35  7.3,     7 New York Giants         21 22.2

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                3 0.58   6 1.33   3 1.33   2 0.00   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,num_right/expected):  14   9 0.96

  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: predicted scores are not released until after game time

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