dream_017 wrote:There is a game in the cafe called pick3. Try playing that, if you are on the top of that list maybe then you guys can start predicting more scores and we will take you seriously.
Do we really want more people putting numbers in a hat and drawing them out and posting them as score predictions????
Whoaaaaa 49ers winning @ Washington? Skins are scoring over 30 points in this game thats almost a given.
Warhawk wrote:Ravens 24, Bears 21
Whoaaaa that almost sounds like a shootout type game to me. Instead of 3 TD's look for the bears to boot 3 FG's. Lol other than these 2 games I like the other scores.
Cornbread Maxwell wrote:This thread was intended to be a joke, it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek prediction thread based on their recent popularity.
None of it is meant to be taken seriously.
I once used the location of a team's name in Pi for a scoring prediction formula. I gave a number value to the first three letters in each team's name, so for the Rams I used 18113 (R=18, a=1, m=13). I found that sequence's location in Pi and I used that number as a variable for "luck" in the equation.
It turned out like s**t, but it killed a couple of hours when I couldn't sleep one night.
Cornbread Maxwell wrote:This thread was intended to be a joke, it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek prediction thread based on their recent popularity.
None of it is meant to be taken seriously.
I once used the location of a team's name in Pi for a scoring prediction formula. I gave a number value to the first three letters in each team's name, so for the Rams I used 18113 (R=18, a=1, m=13). I found that sequence's location in Pi and I used that number as a variable for "luck" in the equation.
It turned out like s**t, but it killed a couple of hours when I couldn't sleep one night.
Wow. So how did you distinguish between the Browns and the Broncos?
Please elaborate on what you did... I'm very curious to hear more....
Cornbread Maxwell wrote:This thread was intended to be a joke, it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek prediction thread based on their recent popularity.
None of it is meant to be taken seriously.
I once used the location of a team's name in Pi for a scoring prediction formula. I gave a number value to the first three letters in each team's name, so for the Rams I used 18113 (R=18, a=1, m=13). I found that sequence's location in Pi and I used that number as a variable for "luck" in the equation.
It turned out like s**t, but it killed a couple of hours when I couldn't sleep one night.
Wow. So how did you distinguish between the Browns and the Broncos?
Please elaborate on what you did... I'm very curious to hear more....
well, i don't know what he did, and i no longer remember everything from my classes, but i think it can be proven that the decimal expansion for any transcendental number (like pi or e) contains any arbitrary FINITE sequence of numbers somewhere. So assiging numbers 1-26 to letters of the alphabet and thus generating a sequence of digits you can find the spot in the expansion of pi where it shows up... man it's been a while since i did any analysis...
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Cornbread Maxwell wrote:This thread was intended to be a joke, it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek prediction thread based on their recent popularity.
None of it is meant to be taken seriously.
I once used the location of a team's name in Pi for a scoring prediction formula. I gave a number value to the first three letters in each team's name, so for the Rams I used 18113 (R=18, a=1, m=13). I found that sequence's location in Pi and I used that number as a variable for "luck" in the equation.
It turned out like s**t, but it killed a couple of hours when I couldn't sleep one night.
Wow. So how did you distinguish between the Browns and the Broncos?
Please elaborate on what you did... I'm very curious to hear more....
well, i don't know what he did, and i no longer remember everything from my classes, but i think it can be proven that the decimal expansion for any transcendental number (like pi or e) contains any arbitrary FINITE sequence of numbers somewhere. So assiging numbers 1-26 to letters of the alphabet and thus generating a sequence of digits you can find the spot in the expansion of pi where it shows up... man it's been a while since i did any analysis...
Yes, that's exactly right. You can query pretty much any number combination in the extrapolation of Pi and find the location of its first digit. There are many sources for this online - here's one:
As for the rest of the formula, I admit that I don't remember. It was a lark, nothing more. It took into account your average scoring, your opponent's average score, the average score of your bench players, some data from actual NFL games and some other stuff that may or may not have been actual factual data.
I had a spreadsheet on it, but I can't seem to find that now...
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