Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles

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Microsoft's Cortana had a good Week 10, correctly predicting nine out of 13 NFL games for the second-straight week.

It's now 97-50 (66%) on the year.

Cortana is a Windows phone virtual assistant that uses a Bing Predicts algorithm to predict every NFL game this season.

The algorithm factors in things like advanced stats, homefield advantage, and weather, in addition to a public sentiment component based on Facebook and Twitter data. It picks games straight up, not against the spread.

After correctly predicting 15 of the final 16 games of the World Cup, Cortana has been relatively average picking NFL games. Las Vegas betting favorites are 97-48-2 on the year, and Nate Silver's ELO model is 103-44.

In Week 10, Cortana and ELO went 9-4 while Vegas favorites went 10-3. The only game Vegas and Cortana disagreed on was Buccaneers-Falcons.

Cincinnati Bengals vs. New Orleans Saints — Saints win, 71.6% chance (Saints -7)

Read more: Microsoft Cortana NFL Picks, Week 11 - Business Insider

SmashMouth · 11-13-2014, 08:29 AM

So she was wrong last week... will you forgive her?

jeanpierre · 11-13-2014, 09:12 AM

Thought Cortana was a declining mall in Baton Rouge...

Rugby Saint II · 11-14-2014, 04:12 PM

That's one hot looking smurf.

Lord_Saint83 · 11-14-2014, 04:35 PM

It is they may have ten stores open in the entire mall.

AlaskaSaints · 11-14-2014, 05:02 PM

Haha. The Saints will decide at the TWO-MINUTE WARNING whether they will win or not.

SloMotion · 11-15-2014, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by teddybarexxx

call me ol fashion but i never trust a computer.

Yeah,

... or a Shift key, a comma key, a parenthesis key, question mark key, space bar, Enter key, et ...

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|Mitch| · 11-15-2014, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by SloMotion

Yeah, ... or a Shift key, a comma key, a parenthesis key, question mark key, space bar, Enter key, et ... .

11-13-2014, 08:28 AM	#1
Threaded by SmashMouth I donated, did you? Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Mandeville, LA Posts: 36,985 Blog Entries: 29 Rating: (0 votes - average) Microsoft's Cortana had a good Week 10, correctly predicting nine out of 13 NFL games for the second-straight week. It's now 97-50 (66%) on the year. Cortana is a Windows phone virtual assistant that uses a Bing Predicts algorithm to predict every NFL game this season. The algorithm factors in things like advanced stats, homefield advantage, and weather, in addition to a public sentiment component based on Facebook and Twitter data. It picks games straight up, not against the spread. After correctly predicting 15 of the final 16 games of the World Cup, Cortana has been relatively average picking NFL games. Las Vegas betting favorites are 97-48-2 on the year, and Nate Silver's ELO model is 103-44. In Week 10, Cortana and ELO went 9-4 while Vegas favorites went 10-3. The only game Vegas and Cortana disagreed on was Buccaneers-Falcons. Cincinnati Bengals vs. New Orleans Saints — Saints win, 71.6% chance (Saints -7) Read more: Microsoft Cortana NFL Picks, Week 11 - Business Insider Attached Thumbnails
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11-13-2014, 08:29 AM	#2
SmashMouth I donated, did you? Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Mandeville, LA Posts: 36,985 Blog Entries: 29	Re: Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles So she was wrong last week... will you forgive her?

11-13-2014, 09:12 AM	#3
jeanpierre Site Donor 2018 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Thibodaux Posts: 43,543 Blog Entries: 39	Re: Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles Thought Cortana was a declining mall in Baton Rouge...

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Rugby Saint II Bounty Money $$$ Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 5800 Airline Dr. Metairie, LA. Posts: 23,727	Re: Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles That's one hot looking smurf. SloMotion likes this.

11-14-2014, 04:35 PM	#5
Lord_Saint83 100% Blunt Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Saint Gabriel, La Posts: 2,754	Re: Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles It is they may have ten stores open in the entire mall.

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AlaskaSaints 1000 Posts + Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Anchorage, AK Posts: 2,484 Blog Entries: 2	Re: Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles Haha. The Saints will decide at the TWO-MINUTE WARNING whether they will win or not. SloMotion likes this.

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SloMotion 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 6,776 Blog Entries: 15	Re: Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles Originally Posted by teddybarexxx call me ol fashion but i never trust a computer. Yeah, ... or a Shift key, a comma key, a parenthesis key, question mark key, space bar, Enter key, et ... . \|Mitch\| likes this.

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\|Mitch\| 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Alexandria, La Posts: 11,303	Re: Cortana Picks Saints To Beat Bungles Originally Posted by SloMotion Yeah, ... or a Shift key, a comma key, a parenthesis key, question mark key, space bar, Enter key, et ... .

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