2017 NFL Week 9 Picks

If I’m to believe Google Analytics, our NFL picks get more than 15 times the page views of anything else we post, so I may try to cheat the system and post anything I find interesting here. If you have not checked out the Bet The Process podcast (also available on Google Play), which I co-host with Jeff Ma, please give…

NFL Week 8 Game Grades

These individual game grades reflect a team’s performance — controlling for home field and strength of opponent — through the lens of the Massey-Peabody ratings. Percentile rating is normalized relative to historical games, and expected score differential is a team’s expected margin of victory against an average team on a neutral field.   # season tm…

CFB Week 9 Grades

Our game grades are intended to allow for an apples-to-apples comparison between team performances each week. They control for home field and (expected) strength of opponent, are situationally weighted (i.e. garbage time is de-valued), and look at the statistics most predictive of future performance. In short, the grades measure how teams played in the areas of the game that…