My bets going back to November 09

[MMA_scientist]

Yeah. If you are writing a computer program (as I think you indicated you were) that is going to take moneyline odds as an input, you need to do something like an if/then/else to handle the favorites and underdogs separately, since they're two different formulas. Then depending on exactly what you're doing, you probably want to either convert to percent odds, or decimal odds (which are 1 / percent odds). For straight averaging as discussed above, you want percent odds.

"Check out the big brains on Brad."

Out of curiosity, what is your background?

[Ludo]

You can't tell? He's the guy that movie "Good Will Hunting" was based off of. But seriously, thats some pretty interesting stuff. Where did you learn all that?

[Svino]

My background is in physics. Also, I was raised by mathematicians, which is a little like the academic version of being "raised by wolves".

[MMA_scientist]

My background is in physics. Also, I was raised by mathematicians, which is a little like the academic version of being "raised by wolves".

That is crazy. This conversation is about as close to physics or mathmatics as I ever get. And honestly, it is hard for me. I feel like I should relinquish my user name and fall on my sword in shame.

There is this whole other world of smart people out there...