ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/19/85)
It's Friday, so it's time for my weekly picks. I've noticed that since I've been placing my picks on the net, I've done much worse. In fact, two weeks ago I had my first losing week (6:8, only one on points) in over four years of picking games. I hope to break this streak this week. Anyway, here goes: Cincinnati at Houston Cin. by 21 31:10 Dallas at Philadelphia Dallas by 7 24:17 Indianapolis at Buffalo Buffalo by 4 16:20 * LA Raiders at Cleveland Cleveland by 3 10:13 LA Rams at Kansas City Rams by 11 24:13 New Orleans at Atlanta New Orleans by 10 27:17 NY Jets at New England New England by 4 13:17 * St. Louis at Pittsburgh Pitt by 7 17:24 San Diego at Minnesota Minnesota by 8 16:24 San Francisco at Detroit 49ers by 17 27:10 Seattle at Denver Denver by 7 24:31 Tampa Bay at Miami Miami by 28! 17:45 Washington at NY Giants Giants by 7 17:24 Green Bay at Chicago Bears by 21! 13:34 * = upsets of the week. I figure that I can break my Monday-Night-curse this week, as it is not likely that Green Bay will beat the Bears. It's possible, as Green Bay is very unpredictable, but I doubt it. I'll probably lose the spread, though, so I will continue the curse on that level. Robert A. Ekblaw
stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) (10/24/85)
> Tampa Bay at Miami Miami by 28! 17:45 Come on, now. 28! = 304888344611713860501504000000. I know that the Bucs are bad and that Marino is great, but ... :-) > Green Bay at Chicago Bears by 21! 13:34 No, no, no! Chicago's strength is their *defense*! No way the'd beat the Pack by 21! = 51090942171709440000. :-) Steve Vegdahl Computer Research Lab. Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton, Oregon
tonys@tektronix.UUCP (Tony Schneider) (10/25/85)
In article <314@tekchips.UUCP> stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) writes: >> Tampa Bay at Miami Miami by 28! 17:45 > >Come on, now. 28! = 304888344611713860501504000000. I know that the >Bucs are bad and that Marino is great, but ... :-) > >> Green Bay at Chicago Bears by 21! 13:34 > >No, no, no! Chicago's strength is their *defense*! No way the'd beat >the Pack by 21! = 51090942171709440000. :-) > > Steve Vegdahl > Computer Research Lab. > Tektronix, Inc. > Beaverton, Oregon The Bears came close!!! Beat them by 16!!!! Monsters of the midway are BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!! Tony Schneider S.C.C. Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton, OR
ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/26/85)
If you look at the score after the spread, you will see that the '!' does not mean factorial. It does, instead, mean a much higher spread than normal for a football game pick (I do this as the professional pickers seem to get really conservative, and go no higher than 10 or so points). I figured that this would be easy to figure out. I apologize if my system is not dimwit- proof. Being a logical engineer, I am not normally analyzing a situation based on how an idiot might examine it. I will try to do better next time. Robert A. Ekblaw
shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) (10/31/85)
> > If you look at the score after the spread, you will see that the '!' does > not mean factorial. It does, instead, mean a much higher spread than normal > for a football game pick (I do this as the professional pickers seem to get > really conservative, and go no higher than 10 or so points). I figured that > this would be easy to figure out. I apologize if my system is not dimwit- > proof. Being a logical engineer, I am not normally analyzing a situation > based on how an idiot might examine it. I will try to do better next time. > > Robert A. Ekblaw Robert. Robert, Robert, Robert. Didn't you notice the little smiley faces next to the factorial values? :-) ^This is a smiley face. Aren't you aware that the smiley face is a convention meaning that the author is speaking tongue in cheek? I was under the impression that this convention was "dimwitproof". -Steve Shiue "Ah like that boy. He's about as sharp as a bowlin' ball." -Foghorn Leghorn