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The Most Value Destructive Thing An NFL Team Can Do

Posted On January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 By Iancomment

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

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New Year’s Flashback: Revisiting Past Predictions

Posted On January 5, 2023January 5, 2023 By Iancomment

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

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Grading My 2022 Predictions: Pretty Good!

Posted On December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 By Ian1 Comment

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

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Ian’s Brief #9: Informed Update, Football Predictions, and More

Posted On September 8, 2022September 9, 2022 By Ian1 Comment

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

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How To Fix the Baseball Playoffs And Increase Ratings

Posted On April 5, 2022April 6, 2022 By Ian1 Comment

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

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How To Pick Your Bracket Like A Champ

Posted On March 15, 2022March 16, 2022 By Ian

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

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How the Transfer Portal Will Soon Break College Football (And NFL Playoff Predictions)

Posted On January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 By Ian

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

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The First Annual Predictions Column

Posted On January 2, 2022January 3, 2022 By Ian1 Comment

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

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Mattress Mack Learns His Lesson

Posted On October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 By Ian

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

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How Moneyball Ruined Baseball

Posted On July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 By Ian1 Comment

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

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