2002 Week 1 (5-9 Sep) Results for the National Football League

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 81%   6 Green Bay               37 25.0,    31 Atlanta                 34  9.5
 79%   8 Miami                   49 21.8,    30 Detroit                 21  8.7
 77%  15 Houston                 19 17.0,    29 Dallas                  10  8.2
 77%   3 Oakland                 31 22.5,    20 Seattle                 17 11.6
 73%  12 Chicago                 27 17.5,    24 Minnesota               23 10.0
 71%  11 New York Jets           37 19.6,    27 Buffalo                 31 12.2
 63%  25 Washington              31 15.6,    28 Arizona                 23 11.8
 62%   9 San Francisco           16 15.9,    19 New York Giants         13 12.8
 60%   5 New England             30 13.1,     4 Pittsburgh              14 11.2
 58%  18 San Diego               34 13.7,    26 Cincinnati               6 12.3
 53%  17 Kansas City             40 13.5,    23 Cleveland               39 13.0

 38%  14 Indianapolis            28 18.5,    13 Jacksonville            25 22.3
 32%  21 Tennessee               27 11.9,     2 Philadelphia            24 17.9
 26%  22 New Orleans             26 10.9,    10 Tampa Bay               20 19.2
 25%  16 Denver                  23 15.3,     1 St. Louis               16 25.9
 23%  32 Carolina                10  6.9,     7 Baltimore                7 17.4

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                3 1.76   4 0.78   8 0.83   1 1.24   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,num_right/expected):  16  11 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: predicted scores are not released until after game time

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