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
The First Annual Predictions Column
So there are basically two kinds of stories you can do to start a year – resolutions or predictions. And I think resolutions are a mental crutch, so predictions it is! Note, I’m not promising a second set of predictions next year. I only said these are the first. Let’s Continue Reading
Mattress Mack Learns His Lesson
One of the Blog’s favorite people is Houston furniture maven, Mattress Mack whose reckless gambling to “hedge” his free furniture promotions provided some good content for me in the past. In fact, Mack is popular with more than just me. The Astros invited him to throw out the first pitch Continue Reading
How Moneyball Ruined Baseball
I haven’t written about sports for a little while, so let’s do something a little different for this post holiday week. As I’ve discussed in the past, there is a lot of overlap between trends in sports and markets, particularly around analytics. While baseball made analytics mainstream through Moneyball, I Continue Reading