Computer Rating System Prediction Results for Pro football (NFL)
2015 Retrodiction Results
Through
Rank |
System |
Pct. Correct |
Against Spread |
Absolute Error |
Bias |
Mean Square Error |
games |
suw |
sul |
atsw |
atsl |
1 | CPA Retro | 0.78365 | 0.00000 | 9.3071 | -1.02630 | 145.47300 | 208 | 163 | 45 | 0 | 0 |
2 | Logistic Regression | 0.73558 | 0.00000 | 11.2473 | 0.11360 | 247.51000 | 208 | 153 | 55 | 0 | 0 |
3 | Sagarin Recent | 0.73077 | 0.00000 | 9.0827 | 0.61000 | 133.63200 | 208 | 152 | 56 | 0 | 0 |
4 | Sagarin Golden Mean | 0.72596 | 0.00000 | 9.0298 | 0.61670 | 133.27600 | 208 | 151 | 57 | 0 | 0 |
5 | Sagarin | 0.72115 | 0.00000 | 9.0296 | 0.62340 | 132.49200 | 208 | 150 | 58 | 0 | 0 |
6 | Beck Elo | 0.72115 | 0.00000 | 9.2058 | 1.50490 | 136.41000 | 208 | 150 | 58 | 0 | 0 |
7 | Ed Kambour | 0.71635 | 0.00000 | 9.1280 | 0.84240 | 134.43800 | 208 | 149 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
8 | Dwiggins | 0.71635 | 0.00000 | 9.1486 | 1.57840 | 132.57900 | 208 | 149 | 59 | 0 | 0 |
9 | Pythagorean Ratings | 0.71154 | 0.00000 | 9.2269 | 1.56070 | 138.96100 | 208 | 148 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
10 | Sport Trends | 0.71154 | 0.00000 | 9.1010 | 1.54330 | 132.91200 | 208 | 148 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
11 | Sonny Moore | 0.71154 | 0.00000 | 9.0788 | 0.80560 | 130.97500 | 208 | 148 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
12 | Sagarin Predictive | 0.71154 | 0.00000 | 9.0314 | 0.64500 | 131.36100 | 208 | 148 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
13 | Roger Johnson | 0.71154 | 0.00000 | 8.9330 | -0.03470 | 131.94200 | 208 | 148 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
14 | Least Abs. Val Reg | 0.71154 | 0.00000 | 8.7066 | 0.78190 | 142.71800 | 208 | 148 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
15 | PerformanZ Ratings | 0.70673 | 0.00000 | 8.8505 | 0.53810 | 129.04200 | 208 | 147 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
16 | Least Squares | 0.70673 | 0.00000 | 9.0032 | 0.24810 | 131.49000 | 208 | 147 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
17 | Turnover Adj. Reg. | 0.70673 | 0.00000 | 9.2374 | 0.28810 | 139.18700 | 208 | 147 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
18 | LS - w/ team HFA | 0.70192 | 0.00000 | 8.5992 | 0.39270 | 117.26500 | 208 | 146 | 62 | 0 | 0 |
19 | Covers.com | 0.69712 | 0.00000 | 9.3606 | 1.54330 | 144.20500 | 208 | 145 | 63 | 0 | 0 |
20 | Scoring Effeciency | 0.69231 | 0.00000 | 9.4274 | 1.55380 | 147.34000 | 208 | 144 | 64 | 0 | 0 |
21 | YourLinx | 0.69231 | 0.00000 | 9.5997 | 1.45430 | 153.26200 | 208 | 144 | 64 | 0 | 0 |
22 | CPA Rankings | 0.67788 | 0.00000 | 9.2076 | -0.84020 | 137.66200 | 208 | 141 | 67 | 0 | 0 |
23 | Stat Fox | 0.67788 | 0.00000 | 9.3462 | 1.50960 | 133.99900 | 208 | 141 | 67 | 0 | 0 |
24 | Pigskin Index | 0.67308 | 0.00000 | 9.2019 | 1.49040 | 138.84500 | 208 | 140 | 68 | 0 | 0 |
25 | Points per game | 0.67308 | 0.00000 | 9.5222 | 0.55840 | 149.15100 | 208 | 140 | 68 | 0 | 0 |
26 | NutShell Sports | 0.66827 | 0.00000 | 9.6452 | 1.52980 | 154.48400 | 208 | 139 | 69 | 0 | 0 |
27 | Ashby Accuratings | 0.65865 | 0.00000 | 9.1587 | 0.48560 | 135.70600 | 208 | 137 | 71 | 0 | 0 |
pct correct = percent straight up picking winners
against spread = percent against the midweek line
absolute error = average(prediction - actual result)
bias = absolute value(prediction - actual result)
mean square error = absolute error squared
games collected
suw = straight up wins
sul = straight up losses
atsw = against the spread wins
atsl = against the spread losses