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ESPN simulation predicts the Bengals get blown out, 37-9, this Monday night. I have mad respect for the Bills but a 28 point win? Hoping for a great game and a win but, regardless, the Bengals are in the playoffs and the future is now. Who Dey!
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35330806/predicting-nfl-playoff-picture-espn-football-power-index-projects-weeks-17-18-division-races-wild-card-hunts
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Las Vegas ain't taking that bet on a dare..
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(12-29-2022, 09:01 PM)grampahol Wrote: Las Vegas ain't taking that bet on a dare..
You got that right. I would put my house down on that bet. And, even if I lost, I have a great story to tell to my fellow homeless compatriots on my way to the soup kitchen.
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LOL they also have the Raiders beating the 49ers, I doubt that, a lot.
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Don't hate us because we're beautiful ESPN.. We actually wash ourselves..Well, most of us do anyway. 
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Meh, they made a lot of crap predictions. Raiders beating the Niners? Sure, whatever. They have the crap Bears clobbering the Lions after said Bears have dropped eight in a row and are 0-4 in the NFCN. Clickbait to the nth degree.
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I can't even get upset at this it is so ridiculously ludicrous. It is more laughable than anything.
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Quote:Walder explained why he pulled this exact simulation in the piece.
"Using ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI), we determined the most likely seed combination in each conference. We then picked a single simulation that yielded that pure chalk playoff seeding to forecast scores for each game and simulate the postseason. There's a 9% chance the NFC seeds are in the exact order that's written below, and there's a 12% chance of the same occurring for the AFC. That might not sound like a lot, but it's a fairly high probability for an exact hit; both numbers are higher than when we did this exercise last season.
https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/allbengals-insiders-plus/espn-model-projects-bengals-to-get-blown-out-by-buffalo-win-afc-north
Basically, they just ran a bunch of simulations to come up with the odds of how each playoff seeding would play out. Then, they just picked a single simulation that matched what their simulations considered the most likely situation.
That single simulation happened to have the Bengals getting blown out.
This isn't a projection of each individual game as much as it was a projection of what the end result of the next two weeks will be, and they used the scores from a single simulation in which that projection happened to occur.
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(12-29-2022, 08:56 PM)Chezaugie Wrote: ESPN simulation predicts the Bengals get blown out, 37-9, this Monday night. I have mad respect for the Bills but a 28 point win? Hoping for a great game and a win but, regardless, the Bengals are in the playoffs and the future is now. Who Dey!
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35330806/predicting-nfl-playoff-picture-espn-football-power-index-projects-weeks-17-18-division-races-wild-card-hunts
I could see the other way around. 
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Bills are -1! This again proves the cluelessness of ESPN! They are owned by Disney!!!!!!
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I guarantee that whoever made that bet would not put any cash on it. Predictions like this are silly…basically a shot in the dark, and it has no more weight than any random dude’s 30 point Bengals blowout prediction. Pay it no mind.
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Little do they know that the game will end 124 - 3 Bengals. We will have 7 safeties too.
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(12-30-2022, 12:59 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: This isn't a projection of each individual game as much as it was a projection of what the end result of the next two weeks will be, and they used the scores from a single simulation in which that projection happened to occur.
So it doesn't mean what seems and they know that. But they went ahead and wrote a story implying that it does anyway just to get clicks. Yeah, that's pretty much corporate media in a nutshell.
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(12-30-2022, 03:54 AM)Roland Wrote: So it doesn't mean what seems and they know that. But they went ahead and wrote a story implying that it does anyway just to get clicks. Yeah, that's pretty much corporate media in a nutshell.
I don't blame them for it. After all, it worked like a charm.
Clicks are currency and the way our country (and, for the most part, world) is structured, profit is more important than anything else.
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After the Bengals win the Super Bowl they’ll still be fifth in the power rankings!
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NFL.com's preview video has all but 2 analysts choosing the Bengals, so i dunno. I know we all want our teams to be an underdog and win anyway, but ESPN is just one predection.
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(12-30-2022, 02:55 AM)Brownshoe Wrote: Little do they know that the game will end 124 - 3 Bengals. We will have 7 safeties too.
Might as well throw something like this out there with this craziness. Only way we lose like that is if something really bad happened.
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(12-29-2022, 09:07 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: LOL they also have the Raiders beating the 49ers, I doubt that, a lot.
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(12-29-2022, 09:07 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: LOL they also have the Raiders beating the 49ers, I doubt that, a lot.
Falcons 22, Cardinals 21
Giants 34, Colts 0
Patriots 13, Dolphins 10
Buccaneers 24, Panthers 21
Some point differentials weren't that far off.
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