Archive for March 6th, 2014

Football: MPWHFA

The last time I added a method of predicting the winners of NFL games, it wasn’t all that impressive. That was YPP, and it was not an improvement over MPW.

MPW has been the leading indicator for the last few years, better than any other automated, statistics-based predictors.

But now MPW is pushed to second place, because MPWHFA has taken the lead.

I added MPWHFA (and its results) to the list of NFL game-predicting methods.

It wasn’t just slightly better than the old leader – it averaged a full percentage point better.

Of course, that’s not entirely fair to MPW. HFA stands for “Home-Field Advantage”, and MPWHFA is really just an improved version of MPW. Take MPW, add a few points to the home team, and see which team has the larger number. That team should be the winner.

Next step: predicting not just the winner, but also the point spread. MPWHFA does that too (and at around a 60% success rate, I might add). MPW and MPWHFA are based on net points. That should be all you need to know to figure out point-spread predictions.

Enjoy!

As for every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm.

Daniel 1:20