espn_hall_of_famer
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If I told you I'd have to kill you. LOL.
OK, J/K. In truth I do this stuff for a living. Using statistical indicators to predict future results. And I go where the work or the money is at. It could be building a model to predict the future price of gas (back a few years ago when the prices were volatile) for corporations that have huge fleets and those gas prices could make or break them. Or someone that owns a lot of golf courses might hire me to project the weather for the next couple years they can project revenues for expansion without being at the mercy of weather forecasters that look at models that just tell them the next couple weeks. Obviously back in my youth (or at least more of the 80's and 90's) is when I used my theories in sports to project the future of players and is really what I still poke around in on the boards from time to time and provide the occasional post. Basically my theory is everything reoccurring in life can be predicted to some measure of success if you use computer models to just find the right relationships and blend all of those relationships together to take out the variances and then run the models thousands of times to get the regression results on those relationships close enough that you're highly accurate. You can then predict the weather, the price of gas, players futures, just about anything.
But to be honest, right now I'm hired out by the government to get our economy back on track. Sounds like a patriotic thing. But I'm barely use that to try and fool myself. Even while I tell myself it's a much more worthy task and I'm doing it for my childrens' future, the reality is they wanted my skills most so they recruited me and showed me the most money, so for 2010 that's "what I do".
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