IronRank app uses algorithm to predict NFL winners

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Can an algorithm used to predict chess and tennis matches also be used to predict the outcomes of NFL games?

That’s what IronRank is betting on, as a four-man crew of self professed geeks from Waterloo, Ontario (and admittedly not the biggest sports fans), have applied their mathematic formula to football games, and through the first nine weeks of the season, have found success 65-percent of the time.

“We wanted to tackle the challenge of taking unpredictable things, such as football games, and see if we could use our algorithm to predict the games,” says IronRank’s Brenden Sherratt.

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