<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580227844881123874.post8244478380656549767..comments</id><updated>2008-11-17T22:24:55.754-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Statistics Beats the NFL Point Spread: Afterthoughts Week 11</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.nflpickles.com/feeds/8244478380656549767/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8580227844881123874/8244478380656549767/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.nflpickles.com/2008/11/afterthoughts-week-11.html'/><author><name>Jaime</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16907581331686653661</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580227844881123874.post-584955474625379734</id><published>2008-11-17T22:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T22:24:00.000-06:00</updated><title type='text'>tried to determine truth of the confidence, and th...</title><content type='html'>tried to determine truth of the confidence, and then whether there's an anti-truth.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;example: arizona prediction by pickles is +10, but the spread is +3.5.  pickles confidence in saying that's true is only 43%.  so, is it true that either:  the prediction is ambiguous, or the pick vs. the spread is ambiguous.  the perfect algorithm is a tricky problem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;good luck pickles!</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8580227844881123874/8244478380656549767/comments/default/584955474625379734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8580227844881123874/8244478380656549767/comments/default/584955474625379734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.nflpickles.com/2008/11/afterthoughts-week-11.html?showComment=1226982240000#c584955474625379734' title=''/><author><name>stephen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01856257698235925029</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.nflpickles.com/2008/11/afterthoughts-week-11.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580227844881123874.post-8244478380656549767' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8580227844881123874/posts/default/8244478380656549767' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>