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Challenge #103: Just another game?

kat
12 - Quasar
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danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

It turns out some SuperBowls are not normal games.  Superbowl 2017 scored 22% higher than the model predicted

 

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Aaah Sports.  As always Moss said it best! They were talking about soccer, but it applies universally.

 

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Dan

 

tcroberts
12 - Quasar

Here's my solution:

 

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The parsing could definitely be cleaned up, but things broke when I made a macro and I couldn't find out why.

I've done quite a bit of predictive work with football stats, so it was fun to see a challenge like this.

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StevenBetts
8 - Asteroid

Here's my solution! :)

 

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Joe_Lipski
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

 

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Joe Lipski
kbwissi
8 - Asteroid

Done - my model did fairly well.

JoBen
11 - Bolide

Cheers!

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jssandom
8 - Asteroid

My solution.. go Giants!

pasccout
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution... got a little help on this one... not sure I would have figured out which predictive objects to use...