[posted and mailed] "Sid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snipped]
> But in many ways, if I knew how to frame the *question* to everyones > satisfaction then I would not need to ask the question at all, as I > would already have more than an inkling of the answer - of *a* way to > go :) > > After all, we all know the answer to the universe is 42. > > Sid > > Take a look a ways of combining publicly available information such as power ratings and point spreads to predict outcomes. An example is Bradley P. Carlin, "Improved NCAA Basketball Tournament Modeling via Point Spread and Team Strength Information", The American Statistician, February 1996, Volume 50, Number 1, pp. 39-43. -- Good luck, Jerry Harder remove spamnein to respond . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
