Ken Ashby's AccuRantings
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6/29/21 Tue
  Accuratings has moved from accuratings.webs.com to accuratings.eu5.net! 

1/12/12 Thu
  My site was disabled for the past three weeks due to a cease-and-desist 
order from the latest holder of the "accuratings" trademark. After being 
contacted, the holder quickly and graciously gave permission to continue 
using the AccuRatings name, with the disclaimer now on the main page. 

1/18/11 Tue
  I am sorry for those who could not download my web pages between noon 
Friday and noon today. My host, webs.com, explains that the problem was 
caused by AT&T when they attempted to block one phishing site and instead 
blocked up to 50 million webs.com sites from access by various ISP's who
use their internet routers. It was compounded by AT&T being unable to 
respond over a weekend to nearly constant requests to fix their mistake. 
  I have used webs.com as a free host for over a year, and it had never 
been down for any substantial length of time (unlike my previous hosts, 
AOL Hometown and Yahoo! Geocities). I am convinced that webs.com did all 
they could, and that the fault lies entirely with AT&T and their client 
ISP's who have to initiate the repair requests. Thank you, AT&T. 

9/25/10 Sat
  I posted this week's ratings at 1 AM. I am now caught up, and things can 
return to normal. (That means waking up at 4 AM to mark a 15K race course!) 

9/21/10 Tue
  The good folks at First Advantage Data Recovery Services worked a small 
miracle and salvaged my spreadsheets, mostly intact. Just as miraculous, 
they appear to be compatible with newer versions of Works and Excel. I am 
working overtime to catch up the AccuRatings by the end of this week. 
  Again, I am amazed that my NFL AccuRatings ranks #1 out of 59 systems on 
Todd Beck's Prediction Tracker with a 23-9 straight-up record after two 
weeks, using only last season's final ratings. Pre-season adjustments thus 
seem to be unnecessary, although I normally factor in pre-season games. 

9/14/10 Tue
  My trusty Win95 computer of almost 15 years was officially pronounced 
dead. The hard drive is now in data recovery, which means an uncertain 
future for AccuRatings, and no updates for at least another week. 
  Amazingly, my week-2 NCAA predictions were pretty good even though they 
did not include week-1 games. Out of 55 systems on Todd Beck's Prediction 
Tracker, AccuRatings ranked 2nd both straight-up and ATSW, and 1st on both 
absolute error and mean square error. I guess this means week-1 outcomes 
in college games are irrelevant to predicting week-2 performances! 

9/11/10 Sat
  My computer is still in repair. Last week I did manually generate 
approximate pre-season NCAA ratings, but that was all. So please just 
use last year's final NFL ratings and the pre-season NCAA ratings for 
this week's predictions. 

9/02/10 Thu
  My pre-season NCAA ratings are now posted. I apologize for the delays. 

9/01/10 Wed
  My computer malfunctioned last night and I lost almost everything, 
unless and until it can be repaired. So I am trying to manually calculate 
rough pre-season ratings. 

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