This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
May
12
2016
In the last month, we had the announcement of the 2016 NFL schedule. Now that we know who will play whom and when, we can start predicting wins and losses.
I keep my predictions over at Some Fun Site. View results of previous football seasons.
How they actually did was
Pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Feb
23
2016
There has been much hype over the celebration antics of one Cam Newton. I have found, though, that Cam is really a talented actor. Watch as he demonstrates his versatility by the following scenarios:
Drama
Romance
Action
Horror
Public Service Announcement
Any other ideas of what else Cam could be demonstrating?
Then the whole assembly decided to celebrate the feast another seven days, so they celebrated the seven days with joy.
2 Chronicles 30:23
Feb
11
2016
With much ado made about a certain quarterback’s attainment of 200 career wins in the Super Bowl earlier this week, I thought I’d throw together a chart of career wins.
Quarterback career Wins by Year
This is based on the list of top 25 quarterbacks, ranked by most career wins.
I don’t know what one is supposed to learn from this, but here are some things I noticed.
Jan
28
2016
Here is a rare photo of Reggie White covering Jerry Rice. He’s all over him, as the sportscasters would say.
The photo is rare because I made it up – pieced it together from other photos. I just wanted to make that pun.
And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.
Matthew 28:3
Jan
14
2016
Okay, okay, it is 2016 at this point, but the results are headlines as 2015 because they match with the 2015 predictions made in 2015 for the 2015 season. Also, the results are not all-haiku, just the predictions were. A more accurate title would be “Results for the All-Haiku Predictions made in 2015”.
Before the bowl games commenced for this past college football season, I made some predictions. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is the tally of those predictions. Note that the results are not in haiku form, in contrast to the predictions.
Here is the list (correct predictions in green, incorrect in red):
Arizona over New Mexico
Utah over BYU
App. St. over Ohio
SJSU over Georgia St.
Arkansas St. over La. Tech
WKU over USF
Utah St. over Akron
Temple over Toledo
NIU over BSU
BG over Georgia So.
WMU over MTSU
Cincinnati over SDSU
Connecticut over Marshall
Washington St. over Miami FL
Southern Miss over Washington
Duke over Indiana
VT over Tulsa
UCLA over Nebraska
Navy over Pitt
CMU over Minnesota
Air Force over Cal
UNC over Baylor
Nevada over Colorado St.
LSU over Texas Tech
Memphis over Auburn
Mississippi St. over NC St.
Texas AM over Louisville
Wisconsin over USC
Houston over FSU
Clemson over Oklahoma
Michigan St. over Alabama
Northwestern over Tennessee
Michigan over Florida
ND over Ohio St.
Iowa over Stanford
Ok. St. over Mississippi
Georgia over Penn St.
Arkansas over KSU
TCU over Oregon
WVU over Arizona St.
Clemson over Michigan State
And here are the results of the various forecasting methodologies (see the first year for description of the methodologies) (also, use the word methodologies if you want to sound important; methods would work just as well and is shorter) :
I won’t analyze the results as much as I did last year, mainly because I had more time and more sleep last year. But it was a decent year for all predictors – every method was at or over 50%. I just need to figure how to better predict outcomes. Especially against the spread.
Because of the disparities between institutions and between conferences, it is tougher to predict bowl games than NFL games. But one thing seems to be pretty consistent: if you don’t want to do a lot of research, just pick the home team.
Last year, we could have used an 8-team playoff. This year, I’m happy with the 4 teams. If we’re going to stick with 4 teams, then the non-conference games during the season should be with a similar conference (e.g. Big 12 teams would play B1G or SEC teams). You don’t need 4 games against cupcakes. How about 2 cupcakes and 2 interconference games?
Since the strength of the conference has something to do with the results, I thought I would tally each conference’s bowl game record for the 2015 (and the first bit of 2016) season.
* additional win/loss due to playoff + championship game
Normally, I take this spot to write different sentences each claiming a different conference as the best because of some different statistic. But this year, no conference could beat the SEC in any stat – they won the most bowl games, they won the championship, and they tied for most teams sent to bowls. So, I must admit that the SEC is the uncontested best conference in NCAA DIV I football.
Next year: playoffs again! A chance for someone other than the SEC to win!
Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”
1 Kings 22:18
Jan
5
2016
It is time once again to update Some Blog Site readers on the results of my Some Fun Site project to create a more accurate football prediction method.
The 2015 NFL season is over, and here are the most accurate methods for predicting regular-season game results (wins-losses):
ITPLS is listed first because it was one game better than MPW, and MPW was one game better than YPP.
No new prediction methods this year. Either no one could find a better method, or they did but they have moved to Vegas instead of commenting on this blog.
And if you think you have a formula that can predict the winner of an NFL game better than 63.7% of the time, let me know and I’ll add it to the list.
Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea will be terrified at your passing.
Ezekiel 26:18
Dec
17
2015
Based on the popularity existence of last year’s article predicting bowl games in haiku form, I present to you this year’s all-haiku bowl game predictions. Still America’s only all-haiku college football bowl game predictions.
These are listed in order of date (earliest first). Some picks are whom I think will win, and some picks are whom I want to win. I’ll leave it to you, the reader, to decide which is which.
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