So someone posted all of SI's Super Bowl predictions since Super Bowl 25.
And then someone else comes along and organizes the data.
They got the winner correct 4 out of 26 times, 15.3%.
They got a Super Bowl team correct 12 out of 52 times, 23%.
(I think it's interesting that by picking two teams to "place" instead of one team to win, is easier at exactly a 50% rate.)
Twice they got both teams correct: 1991 and 2010, but both times they got the winner wrong.
I couldn't crunch the playoff numbers for all teams, but I did it for the Chiefs.
They predicted the Chiefs would make the playoffs 11 times, getting 7 correct. (63%)
They predicted the Chiefs would miss the playoffs 15 times, getting 10 correct. (66%)
Total correct is 65%. Interesting that they did so well in predicting if the Chiefs would make the playoffs, and it didn't matter if they were good or not.
I don't know if I should say 65% is doing well or not actually, but it seemed impressive initially.
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