{"title":"The basics of NFL games, strategies and wagering","authors":"W. Ziemba, L. MacLean","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0002","url":null,"abstract":"What is now the NFL was established in 1920 as the American Professional Association with ten teams from four states. Jim Thorpe, one of the most famous athletes of all time, was president. It became the NFL in 1922. The Chicago Bears and the Arizona Cardinals can trace their roots back to two of the original ten teams. The Green Bay Packers is the oldest NFL team which has had the same name and location since joining the NFL in 1921.","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134367591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2013-2014 Playoffs and the Super Bowl","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116618563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2011-2012 Playoffs and the Super Bowl","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122464117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2017-2018 Playoffs and the Super Bowl","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116233165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2010-2011 Playoffs and the Super Bowl","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114733594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2016-2017 Season, Playoffs and the Super Bowl","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132855304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes for the 2018-2019 Season","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134641546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2014-2015 Season, Playoffs and the Super Bowl","authors":"W. Ziemba, L. MacLean","doi":"10.1142/9789813276505_0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813276505_0012","url":null,"abstract":"I take this up going into the 15th of the 17 week season. In the past John Swetye has helped me by computing the Elo ratings. We now have another independent source — Nate Silver, a superstar predictor’s website www.fivethirtyeight.com and his 2012 book The Signal and the Noise. Nate has a terrific record of predicting all sorts of events — political, sports and other areas. His Elo ratings are different from John’s using the formulas we discuss in chapter 5 which begin with each teams preseason standing from the previous year. For example, Seattle, last year’s Super Bowl winner, started at #1, fell to #3 and now are back at #1 tied with New England. John’s was just based on the current season’s results so this is possibly an improvement…","PeriodicalId":414742,"journal":{"name":"Dr Z's NFL Guidebook","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116315450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}