Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

I've been spending the past day (and will be spending several more) trying to get my work computer back up and running. The Windows 7 boot file became corrupt. There's very little hope of recovering from that when the hard drive is encrypted like mine is. So I had to wipe it out and start over. I had a backup (but from late November) of my data. So it's a matter now of reinstalling all my programs and getting everything back up and running. Ugh.

I've been picking college basketball games for the whole season. There's several different methods for my predictions. The first is my "1 pick every day" method. With this, I choose exactly 1 game every day to predict. So far this year I'm 30-22-2 (57.4%). Another method is picking games when I "feel good" about them. With this method I'm 55-43 (56.1%). The final method is using computers to pick the games. These started a week or so ago - I wait until around the turn of the calendar before I start ranking teams. There's a few different ways I make these predictions. One picks quite a few games each day and is 23-15-1 (60.3%). Another picks only games which the computer thinks the line is "way off". This computer program is only 6-5-1 (54.2%). Finally, I have one program that only picks totals. This one is doing very well this year at 13-5 (72.2%).