I know a lot of people are drafting their fantasy football teams this weekend and I just looked back and it’s been one, two, three, wow, four years since I wrote my tips to win your league. So I thought I’d do a quick update for the holiday weekend and Continue Reading
How the Saudis Can Ruin American Football
We’re going to do a non-insurance post today with football season approaching. The Saudis have “disrupted” golf and are looking to do the same to soccer. Could they do the same to pro football? It seems impossible but…it’s actually not that hard once you take a moment to think about Continue Reading
My Life Story Told Through Super Bowls
Today, I’m going to do something a bit different and tell a personal story, though I suspect it’s one some of you can relate to. For those that can’t, perhaps it will help you understand the pull sports has on society. This Sunday will be the Eagles fourth Super Bowl. Continue Reading
The Most Value Destructive Thing An NFL Team Can Do
Editor’s Note: 1) The annual NFL playoff predictions are back at the end of the post.2) If you missed yesterday’s post on the amazing Informed deductible calculator, give it a look. So much of success in professional team sports comes from decisions made off the field. It’s not enough to Continue Reading
New Year’s Flashback: Revisiting Past Predictions
Last week, I looked back at some of 2022’s predictions, but this blog has made a lot of successful predictions over the years. In fact, I think it’s one of the core strengths of what I do here. I sometimes forget most people reading probably have not been around for Continue Reading
Grading My 2022 Predictions: Pretty Good!
At the beginning of the year, I did a silly thing. I made a bunch of predictions for the year. This blog has a pretty strong record of predictions over the years, but I had never fallen for the nonsense of making topical annual predictions…until this year. Now, the thing Continue Reading
Ian’s Brief #9: Informed Update, Football Predictions, and More
Haven’t done a brief for some time and have a number of topics to catch up on. If you’re just here for the annual NFL predictions, you can scroll to the bottom. Informed News First, we have our brand new logo to share… We had some excellent help on it Continue Reading
How To Fix the Baseball Playoffs And Increase Ratings
Informed Tip of the Week: Please take a look at a new analysis we’ve published here. It shows how two insurance policies that look very similar based on price can produce much different results if you have a claim. Why? Because one is a “typical” policy that cuts corners on Continue Reading
How To Pick Your Bracket Like A Champ
Informed Tip of the Week: Important paper here about some of the underlying problems with home insurance coverage that Informed is working on fixing. Does a good job explaining a lot of the core issues such as disappearing roof coverage and the need for better information along with the obstacles Continue Reading
How the Transfer Portal Will Soon Break College Football (And NFL Playoff Predictions)
Editor’s Note: Slight change in format for the new year. I’ll now be including links to Informed content with each post. Hopefully, this serves as incentive for me to write a little more and hopefully you, gentle reader, will click and learn something you didn’t know about your home insurance. Continue Reading