Cortana Picks Saints For The Last Game Of The Year
 

Microsoft Cortana had a lackluster Week 16, correctly predicting nine of 16 NFL games.

It's now 158-82 (65.8%) on the year.

Cortana is a Windows phone virtual assistant that's predicting every NFL game with an algorithm from Bing Predicts. Bing started predicting sports results at the World Cup — where it correctly picked 15 of the tournament's final 16 games.

The algorithm hasn't been as successful picking NFL games, but it's still going to finish the season with a respectable record. Nate Silver's ELO model is 165-75 (68.7%) through 16 weeks. Las Vegas betting favorites are 156-80-4 (65.8%). Cortana picks games straight up, not against the point spread.

In the final week of the regular season, the Bing Predicts algorithm can potentially crack 66% for the season and beat out the Vegas favorites straight up.

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Here are Cortana's picks for Week 17 as of Tuesday afternoon. We'll update them throughout the week if they change (Vegas favorites in parentheses):

New Orleans Saints vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Saints win, 64.4% chance (Saints -4)

Read more: Microsoft Cortana NFL Picks, Week 17 - Business Insider

Re: Cortana Picks Saints For The Last Game Of The Year
 

This season sucked so bad I find her an ugly ass E-skank.

Re: Cortana Picks Saints For The Last Game Of The Year
 

So sick of hearing this machine's "predictions" about the Saints.

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I'm tired of Cortana it's time for Corona.

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Cortana was right!!!

:notworthy:

Re: Cortana Picks Saints For The Last Game Of The Year
 

And we won..........dang!

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slut

Re: Cortana Picks Saints For The Last Game Of The Year
 

Well, I'd probably date her ... but there is the issue of a little virus I seemed to have contracted right around game time yesterday and the 80+ processes that slowed my laptop to a crawl, just sayin'. :neutral:.