{"id":1708,"date":"2020-01-24T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2020-01-24T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:40:10","slug":"super-bowl-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year, sometime before the first pre-season NFL game is played, I use my excellent analytic and forecasting ability to predict who will play in the Super Bowl. Here\u2019s the way it works \u2014 I write down the name of the two teams that I think will play in the Super Bowl at the end of the upcoming season. I only pick the teams that I think will <em>play<\/em> in the game, I never pick a team to <em>win<\/em>. I also \u2014 every year \u2014 make a prediction as to what the Redskins win\/loss record will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I write these predictions down, seal them in an envelope and don\u2019t open it until the week before the Super Bowl. This is only for my own entertainment \u2014 if someone asks, I\u2019ll tell them my choices, but only during the week before the Super Bowl. I know this all sounds kind of stupid, but it doesn\u2019t take much to entertain me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought this year, I\u2019d reveal my predictions here rather than just keeping them to myself. In case you\u2019re wondering, I\u2019ve never picked the two teams that actually played in the game \u2014 I\u2019ve picked one of the teams several times, but not both.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now that I have you on the edge of your seats, here were my predictions for Super Bowl LIV. The San Diego (actually I guess they\u2019re now technically in Los Angeles) Chargers and the Philadelphia Eagles. Yep, my prediction had the Eagles playing the Chargers in next week\u2019s game. Obviously this wasn\u2019t my best year, but I did predict the Redskins record would be 3-13 \u2014 which, incidentally, happens to be <em>exactly<\/em> correct. So I batted a little over .300\u2026 that\u2019s not too bad.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, sometime before the first pre-season NFL game is played, I use my excellent analytic and forecasting ability to predict who will play in the Super Bowl. Here\u2019s the way it works \u2014 I write down the name of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=1708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}