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Based on what could be called "the Super Bowl betting
strategy the NFL doesn’t want you to know about": The
team mascots positions on the food chain ranking
predictor. So if the Seattle Seahawks are playing the
Carolina Panthers, a panther obviously eats a seahawk,
(if there were such a bird)
so you’d go with the Panthers.
This of
course is insane except that it’s predicted the Super
Bowl
winner by almost 2 to 1. 20 times the mascot with the
higher food chain ranking won compared to 13 times the
lower food chain ranked mascot winning. It didn't work
with yesterday's Super Bowl with the Rams (goats) vs the
Bengals (tigers). A ram is literally lunch for a tiger so
using
that predictor, the Bengals should have beat the Rams, it
was just good science, but it didn't pan out.
Still, the ratio holds at 20 to 13 and it made me wonder
if,
using spurious correlation you could come up with other
predictors for championship game outcomes. Uniform
color, perceived aggressiveness of the mascot, say a
pirate
vs a miner (Buccaneers vs 49ers).
So to clarify, the idea is to use bad science to come up
with betting strategy for championship games that would
at least be interesting to watch. I posted the idea of the
mascot food chain link on another site and NOBODY
didn't
have that in mind during the game. It sort of questions
your view of the world I guess. Yes, it's BS, but you watch
to see if the prediction works anyway. Even if you're
hoping
it doesn't, you still note the outcome.
So you'd go to this website and it might say "Teams from
cities with a river going through it have won 80% of the
championship games against cities that don't have rivers.
Would you like to bet on the Blabbertown Doohickies to
take the win?" Tell me you wouldn't at least entertain the
idea, if only for a split second before slapping yourself
into reality. Or maybe you wouldn't, maybe you'd go
"80%? Maybe there's something to this." and lay down a
couple of hundred bucks. Might learn you're more
superstitious than you thought.
See link for other spurious correlations to get the idea.
Other spurious correlations to get ideas from.
https://www.tylervi...urious-correlations
Check out the correlation of the age of Miss America and murders by steam and hot objects. [doctorremulac3, Feb 14 2022]
Huh, they got a new Banana Slut mascot. I don't like it as much.
https://en.wikipedi...a_Cruz_Banana_Slugs
[doctorremulac3, Feb 14 2022]
Here's the old, better I think logo. Happily reading Plato. Big thick glasses.
https://keepingscor...-cruz-banana-slugs/
[doctorremulac3, Feb 14 2022]
Sea Hawk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osprey
aka Osprey. Could possibly mess up a panther... [neutrinos_shadow, Feb 14 2022]
Straight from the school website...
https://www.evergre...nd%2C%20let's%20go.
[RayfordSteele, Feb 14 2022]
The origins...
https://www.youtube...watch?v=w1KUtOQZPQE
[RayfordSteele, Feb 14 2022]
Here they are.
Halfbakery_20Poems_...n_20Classic_20Poems
[doctorremulac3, Feb 15 2022]
Absolute proof that bones don't mean it's a bad idea.
iPhone
Because I invented the iPhone. I really did. Totally not lying. And if I am lying... wait... no, not lying, yea, that's the ticket. [doctorremulac3, Feb 15 2022]
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//Spurrious// Did you know that ideas with misspelt titles get on average less than expected ratios of bones to buns? |
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As you can see I got it right all the rest of the
times I
spelled
it on the idea so I do know how it's spelled, but
yes, I
type
very quickly and didn't catch it. |
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Was hoping the conversation would be a little more
interesting but, oh well. |
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There's nothing more interesting than talking about other people's misspellings. |
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I know it's how I spend my weekends. |
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Two words: Detroit Lions. |
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The Whittier College Poets have never had a good football
season. Not sure why that would be... |
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80% of Superbowl-winning QBs have blue eyes. |
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I'm going to look up the ranking for my local
university, the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs. Yes,
that's their mascot. |
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See link, there's your data to study. |
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UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors
NYU Violets
Evergreen State Geoducks (clearly ripped off from
UC Santa Cruz) |
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Okay, sounds like UC Santa Cruz doesn't even really
bother with sports. No football team for starters. |
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//sounds like UC Santa Cruz doesn't even really bother with
sports//
Maybe, being a University (y'know, a place of higher
learning), they focus more on the higher learning. At most
universities (OK, I've only been to 2), sports are things you do
in your spare time. |
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OMG. The Geoducks' School Song...! (apparently it's
pronounced 'gooeyduck...???) |
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Go, Geoducks go,
Through the mud and the sand,
let’s go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.
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Go, Geoducks go,
Stretch your necks when the tide
is low
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.
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LOL! Please tell me that's their actual song. |
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It is! There's a YouTube of one of their summer camp
gatherings
singing it. |
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Damned kids! Having fun when they should be playing
sports! |
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Hmm. Thought this would get at least a bun or two. |
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I've got that Ozymandias sonnet in my head only with
fishbones instead of barren sands. |
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Where's that Halfbakery version of that thing? It's
around here someplace. |
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Here we go. (See link for other's versions of the
classic applied to the HB) |
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WELL BAKED! (Another HB version of the
sonnet
Ozymandias by
Percy Shelley, this one by doctorremulac3) |
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I met a baker from a far-off land who said:
“Speed bumps like custard soft, my dreams of
wealth, and great acclaim.” |
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Shattered though with posts of fury. Sarcastic
cold like cutting blades tell this baker well what
came before. For on those annos these words
appear: |
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"THIS IS WELL BAKED! LOOK UPON THESE
LINKS AND DESPAIR!" |
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Nothing but the bones remain, of that
colossal dream. Bunless and barren, into the vast
and endless history files. It fades into time. |
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