Superbowl...Who's picking who?
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IMO, Seahawks will take it, but it will close. Hawks have superior defense and generally defense wins most games.
I'll support whatever team give me Red Line, free, for the rest of my life.
My son and I are Green Bay fans and were bummed out by that game.
That said, we're going with the Pats.
That said, we're going with the Pats.
Did you guys see this?
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdo...-022252004.html
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The Super Bowl has a point spread that is very close in Las Vegas, but a computer simulator has figured out who will win.
Using an astounding array of analytics, the Predictalator on PredictionMachine.com ran 50,000 simulations of Super Bowl XLIX. And 57.5 percent of the time in its simulations, the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots.
And from these tens of thousands of simulations, the site has the Seahawks most likely winning by a 24-20 score.
According to the folks who run the Predictalator, the Seahawks are “simply, the team more capable of dominating.”
“For the second straight year in a row, we like Seattle when the vast majority of the public – over 70 percent based on available betting information – believes the AFC is going to win. Much of that perception is likely based off of what happened during conference championship weekend,” Paul Bessire, general manager of PredictionMachine.com told Shutdown Corner.
“I would caution against that mindset, acknowledging that the most important player on the field for the Seahawks [Russell Wilson] had the worst day of his professional career against one of the best teams in the NFL and Seattle still won. It’s tough to expect anyone, Wilson or otherwise, to play that poorly in the Super Bowl. If he and the team around him play up to expectations, Seattle looks like a clear favorite.”
The site uses a variety of inputs to generate strengths and weaknesses for each team, and then lets it simulate 50,000 games. Each game simulates each play, making for a maddening amount of data to cull.
Last year, the Predictalator went against conventional wisdom and picked the Seahawks to beat the heavily favored Denver Broncos. Seattle won 43-8.
In the scenario that emerged from the 50,000 simulations this year, the Seahawks limit Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to 235 passing yards (the Patriots were 3-4 this season in games that Brady threw for less than 250 yards, including Week 17 when he was pulled after playing in the first half).
As for Brady and the Patriots, not even deflate-gate could touch the Predictalator. Not even once in 50,000 simulations.
“Every ball in every simulation we conduct in the regular or postseason is inflated to the proper 12.5 to 13.5 PSI. In 50,000 simulations, that’s a whole lot of balls, none of which seems to lose two-plus PSI during the games,” Bessire said. “That’s 1.5 million properly inflated balls for a normal game and 6 million for this week. It’s an assumption worth revisiting for future seasons, but, fortunately the Super Bowl is the only game all year in which the NFL provides all the balls.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdo...-022252004.html
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The Super Bowl has a point spread that is very close in Las Vegas, but a computer simulator has figured out who will win.
Using an astounding array of analytics, the Predictalator on PredictionMachine.com ran 50,000 simulations of Super Bowl XLIX. And 57.5 percent of the time in its simulations, the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots.
And from these tens of thousands of simulations, the site has the Seahawks most likely winning by a 24-20 score.
According to the folks who run the Predictalator, the Seahawks are “simply, the team more capable of dominating.”
“For the second straight year in a row, we like Seattle when the vast majority of the public – over 70 percent based on available betting information – believes the AFC is going to win. Much of that perception is likely based off of what happened during conference championship weekend,” Paul Bessire, general manager of PredictionMachine.com told Shutdown Corner.
“I would caution against that mindset, acknowledging that the most important player on the field for the Seahawks [Russell Wilson] had the worst day of his professional career against one of the best teams in the NFL and Seattle still won. It’s tough to expect anyone, Wilson or otherwise, to play that poorly in the Super Bowl. If he and the team around him play up to expectations, Seattle looks like a clear favorite.”
The site uses a variety of inputs to generate strengths and weaknesses for each team, and then lets it simulate 50,000 games. Each game simulates each play, making for a maddening amount of data to cull.
Last year, the Predictalator went against conventional wisdom and picked the Seahawks to beat the heavily favored Denver Broncos. Seattle won 43-8.
In the scenario that emerged from the 50,000 simulations this year, the Seahawks limit Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to 235 passing yards (the Patriots were 3-4 this season in games that Brady threw for less than 250 yards, including Week 17 when he was pulled after playing in the first half).
As for Brady and the Patriots, not even deflate-gate could touch the Predictalator. Not even once in 50,000 simulations.
“Every ball in every simulation we conduct in the regular or postseason is inflated to the proper 12.5 to 13.5 PSI. In 50,000 simulations, that’s a whole lot of balls, none of which seems to lose two-plus PSI during the games,” Bessire said. “That’s 1.5 million properly inflated balls for a normal game and 6 million for this week. It’s an assumption worth revisiting for future seasons, but, fortunately the Super Bowl is the only game all year in which the NFL provides all the balls.”
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I don't care so much....but being that I am completely tired of football and the local Seahawk fans....I would hope the Patriots win.
Maybe then the silliness around here will die down faster after the game.
Maybe then the silliness around here will die down faster after the game.
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I couldn't care less about the game. I'll take advantage of the less crowded roads, and go for a ride.
I don't like either one of these teams very much so mainly I just want to see a good game. I don't like any Super Bowl where the final score is something like 45-7. I would rather see something like 31-28.
I can't decide which team I would like to see win. I usually support the AFC Team but I get sick and tired of hearing about the Patriots cheating. I don't really care much for the Seahawks either. I would have preferred Green Bay in the Super Bowl. And of course the Denver Broncos but they did not even come close.
My best guess is that the Patriots will win. If Gronk is catching a lot of passes and scoring touchdowns that starts making it almost a certainty. The Patriots usually win when Gronk has something like 10 catches and two or three touchdowns.
I will be watching the game at a friend's house-he has a new widescreen TV. If the game is a dud I sure can find something else to do. Although I sort of would like to check out the halftime show also.
I can't decide which team I would like to see win. I usually support the AFC Team but I get sick and tired of hearing about the Patriots cheating. I don't really care much for the Seahawks either. I would have preferred Green Bay in the Super Bowl. And of course the Denver Broncos but they did not even come close.
My best guess is that the Patriots will win. If Gronk is catching a lot of passes and scoring touchdowns that starts making it almost a certainty. The Patriots usually win when Gronk has something like 10 catches and two or three touchdowns.
I will be watching the game at a friend's house-he has a new widescreen TV. If the game is a dud I sure can find something else to do. Although I sort of would like to check out the halftime show also.
Seattle the winner and Glendale the loser. They will lose a ton of money on this thing and every year lose a ton of money paying for the football stadium and Gila River Arena.
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I couldn't care less about the game. I'll take advantage of the less crowded roads, and go for a ride.
My way of thinking.
I couldn't care less about the game. I'll take advantage of the less crowded roads, and go for a ride.
My way of thinking.
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