Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-fremen!ryan From: ryan@fremen.DEC Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: It shouldn't work, but... Message-ID: <3847@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 21:30:12 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3847 Posted: Fri Oct 5 21:30:12 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 07:13:10 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 14 (Buffalo +11 over Seattle!!! - did you apply Bistromatics? :-) How about trying the algorithm with yardage instead of points (which would better represent those games where the score doesn't really represent what happened)? The problem, of course, is in translating the resulting yardage differentials into point spreads - it would take some tuning. Mike Ryan (ryan%fremen.DEC@decwrl, or some such nonsense)