Let's say you have 100 quarters, each of which you flip 10 times, keeping careful track of each quarter's results, heads or tails. That's one time in fifty trials. It only matters if the following 9 tosses happen to match the first toss. The point is, after tossing 100 quarters 10 times each, you cannot after the fact look back and think there is special significance to an individual quarter's performance. You cannot after the fact look back on such an event and attach significance to it without more substantive supportive evidence.
Trouble is, they are almost always meaningless.
Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts when it comes to forecasting the outcome of professional football games. Biorhythms won't help, astrology won't help, and what happened years ago won't help. In other words, forget about finding some sort of 5-minute magic formula. Effective handicapping begins with the simple application of common sense. Click HERE to send us email 1999 by J. R. Miller.