My two cents worth

3:02 PM   I am testing out going to a new blog that would be hosted on my own site.

http://www.thepredictiontracker.com/blog/

The NCAAA tournament is now underway. To be honest, I did not follow any form of basketball this year. So I have no informed opinion on who will win.

But I am looking forward to baseball season. Baseball has been my only real profitable sport. I increased the size of my account by 350% last baseball season.

3:45 PM   It's been a really long time since I posted last. It looks like I never returned from Christmas vacation. As near as I can determine the final record for the picks presented on this page were NCAA 30-32-2, NFL 13-10. That was a bad year for NCAA and a typical year in the NFL.

I guess a lot has happened since the New Year. My boss quit so I am more or less by myself now so I now have some responsibilities that I never particularly wanted. Sometime by summer I will likely be moving to an office in a different building.
If there are any senior statisticians out there reading this that are looking for a job let me know.

It has been a miserable winter, cold and snowy.

This year I will be taking a trip to the middle east. I will be spending a little time in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, and Cairo Egpyt. This will be in May so it will not be during football season this time.

I finally posted the prediction tracker awards for NCAA. I haven't started them for the NFL and can't say when or if I will. I could use a guest writer.

8:45 AM   I haven't posted any NFL picks for a couple weeks because they were doing so bad.
Let's see how they go this week.
Indianapolois -7, Philadelphia +3.5

9:43 AM   All of the bowl predictions are now in so it is time to make some picks.
These picks took a nose dive at the end of the season and some of these look a little iffy to me.
West Virginia +9, Oregon +6.5, Ohio St. +4, Illinois +14, Kansas +3.5, Missouri -3, Arizona St. +2.5

3:18 PM   Want to know how all the coaches voted in their final poll, Look here
to see the ballots and how idiotic and biased some of them really are.

10:11 AM   Last week the NCAA selections went 2-5 to drop one game below 500. I don't know that they have ever had a losing season before. And the NFL wasn't any better, a month ago the record was 10-4 now it stands at 10-9 after going three weeks without getting a game correct.
Season Totals: NCAA 25-26-2, NFL 10-9-1
This week:
NCAA: UCLA +20, Arizona St. -7, Missouri +3, Oregon +0
NFL: Tampa Bay +3.5, Atlanta +3 (perhaps the reason for the downfall is this late in the season the computers can't quickly adjust to injury situations like Garcia in Tampa Bay)

10:37 PM   Here's an article that talks about the apparent viruses coming from banner ads.