Nate Silver's Super Bowl Pick: The 49ers (Nate Silver in hiding now...)

Atlantic Wire ^ | 1/30/2013 | LEXANDER ABAD-SANTOS

[jimbo123]

Sure, Nate Silver was on-point during the 2012 election, but before you place your bets behind the bespectacled number genie, remember that he predicted that this would be a Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl — and that he's gotten a little better at the politics game than anything else.

But in a column for The New York Times Magazine published online today, Silver breaks down his latest mumbo-jumbo over S.R.S. rankings and something called the Defense-adjusted Value Over Average, which is exciting if you're a statistician groupie — just not if you're a Baltimore Ravens fan. In the end, Silver seems to call it for San Francisco:

[jimbo123]

Look like Nate Silver has gone into hiding over his latest flop pick. Now it's radio silence from Silver and his groupies. Must be laying low at Jesse Jackson Jr's hideout...

[NOVACPA]

Predictions are always more accurate when you have inside information. :-)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Nate predicted the election correctly was because he was tipped off that the fix was in.

[Doc Savage]

Stop just one play,...108 kickoff return,...and you win. Just one play. But no.

[roadcat]

Yes, but you can also say that about other things that went wrong for the 49’ers. I figured before the game that they would lose, because the odds of winning every Super Bowl was against them. I mean, 6 out of 6, very unlikely.

[blueunicorn6]

From The Atlantic.

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