Monthly Archives: September 2009

Isaacson-Tarbell

Here’s a review of Isaacson-Tarbell, which we should compare our picking schemes against this season. Isaacson-Tarbell is “picking for idiots”. And it’s pretty bulletproof – it seems most pick experts can’t outperform it. The picking rules are: Pick the team with the better win-loss record. If they’re tied, pick the home team. Isaacson-Tarbell was 9-7 [...]

In Review…

I thought I’d take the opportunity to trace through the general strategy here, both to get my brain clearer for the season, but also to review for whoever is reading. We start out with all the wins and losses for the season so far. The first design choice I made was to ignore points, and [...]

2009 NFL Week 1 Picks

Hello everyone and welcome back to Beatpaths! We’re getting the first post in, just in the nick of time. We also have an upgraded wordpress installation, we’re on a new server, and I’ll be able to generate the rankings and graphs on the actual server now, rather than on my local system – all of [...]