UNU Football Week 5: 16% ROI
Week 5 was a strong week for UNU Football. The UNU Football Swarm met last Thursday to make its Week 5 Picks, which were recorded here on the blog, HERE. Only 14 games were played in Week 5 of the NFL,…
Baseball Swarm Nails Final 8 Playoff Teams for the Boston Globe
On August 3, the Boston Globe assembled a group of baseball fans who used UNU to predict the eventual participants in the Major League Playoffs. This challenge was issued in the same spirit as Tech Republic's Kentucky Derby challenge, and readers of this…
UNU Football Week 5
Check out UNU's Week 4 Results HERE. The results below are sorted by predicted Confidence and then by Brainpower. As always, I would encourage you to watch each games replay for a better understanding of how the Swarm arrived at its prediction. For example, lower…
UNU Football Week 4: Even Steven
Last week, the UNU Football met on Thursday ( as we do every week ) to take a stab at predicting the outcomes of all 15 NFL games. Of course, when you're harnessing a weapon as power as Swarm Intelligence,…
UNU Nails Major NHL Awards, Extends Prediction Dominance
Continuing its string of super-accurate NHL postseason predictions, UNU correctly picked 3 of 4 major NHL awards given out last night in Las Vegas to the top individual performers of the 2015-16 season, including League MVP Patrick Kane of the Chicago…
Swarm Intelligence taps Penguins to lift Stanley Cup
Fresh off correctly predicting the Kentucky Derby Superfecta against 542 to 1 odds -- of the most unlikely gambling stories in years -- UNU's unique Swarm Intelligence has been asked to predict the outcome of this years Stanley Cup. So earlier this week, researchers…
Swarm Intelligence Nails Kentucky Derby Superfecta, turns $20 into $11,000
Picking the winner from the 20 horse field at the Kentucky Derby is hard. So hard, in fact, that no expert polled by SBNation was able to do it. That's why the holy grail at the racetrack is the Superfecta, where bettors are asked not…
4 Simple Rules for Winning Your Sweet 16 Pool
Now that a few days have passed since that crazy first weekend of March Madness, most of us are sitting at home with heart palpitations and busted brackets. If you're anything like me, you may have turned to a second-chance pool (aka…
March Madness Day 3
The 2016 March Madness tournament has been predictably unpredictable. When 12 seed Yale beat 5th seeded Baylor, they seemed like the Cinderella story of the tournament. But wins by 13 seed Hawaii and 15th seed Middle Tennessee over #2 Michigan State…
Beat the Swarm: March Madness Edition
Today marks the beginning of March Madness. That means one thing at UNU: it's time to play Beat the Swarm. In the past few weeks, we've challenged people across the internet to Beat the Swarm in predicting major events like the Super…