After Brett Favre and the Vikings polished off the Packers last night, I found myself in 7th place out of 50 in my NFL Pickem pool. As the following box plot shows, choosing weights using Vegas point spreads put me above the median in 3/4 weeks and in the top quartile 2/4 weeks. In the second week, when I was below the median, I was still within the interquartile range.
Here’s some of the data in the above box plot.
Week | Mean StdDev IQR Min lq Median uq Max ======================================================================= 1 | 114.5 8.22 11 95 109 115 120 133 2 | 77.1 10.38 13 53 70 78 83 107 3 | 104.6 15.76 14 15 99 108 113 126 4 | 91.0 7.05 9 71 86 91 95 104
