To predict the outcome of a game, you should know the players. A handicapper who fixes the odds on flats or trotters in horse racing has to know the race track, the conditions, the horses, the jockeys, the length of the race and their post positions in order to have an informed idea of how the race ...

As can be read in numerous news sources (we refer here to the AmLaw Daily), Latham & Watkins is to lay off 190 associates and 250 non-legal staff - while "Latham's 550 strong partnership will be unaffected by the cuts", apparently under the motto that it is the other guy who should make the sacr...

We tried our Phaistos Disk and Elamite PPT on SlideShare.net and got excellent results. SlideShare also provided a transcript of the text without graphics or other slide formatting, which is in fact extremely useful for many purposes (see all that below). SlideShare writes that it is "the world's la...

Globally seen, what are the best places in the world to live? And if it is good to live there, these places might well be worth a visit when you are planning your next vacation. We show the top 10 here. Business Week carries an article by Carl Winfield at The World's Best Places to Live 2008, presen...

Dick Costolo, co-founder and then CEO of FeedBruner, which was acquired by Google for an estimated $100 million in 2007, closed his Burning Door blog in 2008 with some interesting advice for startups in his posting Ask the Wizard. We had cause to look at his posting again since Google in 2009 is now...

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAME PREDICTIONS 2008/2009 Our prediction record for the college football season is653-212 in calling the game winners and307-288-11 against the point spread. See our pre-bowl ratings and rankings. NCAA Division I-A FBS College Football 34-Game Bowl Schedule, Matchups and Predi...

THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS PRE-BOWL COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 SEASON on December 9, 2008________ THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS after Week 15 of play. NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage) is calculated according to CFBSTATS.COM. Schedule Diffi...

Who is the best college football team in the land? and how can it be that team A beats team B, team B beats team C, and then team C beats team A? Maybe there is often no true national champion but simply a mix of top teams. A good example here is the triumvirate of games in the 2008 college football...

If we assign a ranking to various parameters for college football teams according to CFBSTATS.com, what do the accumulated rankings look like? The following analysis of the most important statistics in football shows that Florida and USC should be ranked 1st and 2nd and that Boise State is really ge...

YPPSYS College Football Game Predictions and Results - 2008 Season - Week 15 - Week of Saturday, December 6, 2008 Our record for the season is 636-204 in calling game winners and 300-280-11 against the spread. We are beating almost all systems listed at the College Football Prediction Tracker . Here...