Today’s Blog is about accuracy. I take great pride in the Accuracy of my predictions in the magazine. I write each of the 120 team previews myself while most of the other magazines have each conference written by a different writer from that conferences area. I put my name on the front of the magazine and my goal each year is to pick every conference perfect. Naturally that is an unreasonable goal but my magazine is the MOST accurate over the past 12 years and it is not really close.

This year, Tim Sullivan who writes for the New York Post was kind enough to write an article on my magazine being the most accurate over the last 12 years. The scores are figured by taking each publication’s forecasting accuracy by comparing the predicted finish with the actual finish of each team in the conference.

In the last 12 years my overall score is 1,683. The closest magazine to me, is Athlon at 1,717. That is a 34 point difference which is almost five touchdowns!!! Keep in mind this chart is similar to Golf scores in that the lower the score the more accurate the magazine. Read more…