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MAFL Primer > MAFL - The Early Years > What Was In the Newsletters from 2005 to 2008?
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Prior to the launch of the first MAFL website, MAFL content was provided to subscribers by way of an e-mailed newsletter. All the MAFL Newsletters are available for download in the MAFL - The Early Years section.
Initially, especially in 2005 and 2006, my analyses were simple, and I provide those e-mails here mainly for historical completeness. There are a handful of newsletters from 2007 and 2008, however, that contain content that's less ephemeral. Since the site search facility doesn't pickup the content of these newsletters directly, here's a guide to the ones I think are most interesting.
General Topics and Definitions
- Description of head-to-head and line betting - R1 2007
- Estimating Team Probabilities Using Head-to-Head Prices - R1 2007
- Defining a Tipster Disagreement Index - R3 and R4 2007
- Why Good Tipsters Aren't Necessarily Profitable Gamblers - R6 2007
- ChiRaS - The Chi Ranking System - R15 2007
- Benchmarking Betting Strategies - R20.1 2007
- Balls Sports - Approved Dimensions of the Ball - P4 2008
- Balls Sports - How Fast Does the Ball Travel - P5 2008
- Kicking a Football on the Moon - P5 2008
- What's a Dutch Book? - R2 2008
- The Surprisingness of a Result - R4.1 2008
- Surprisingness Revisited: The Surprisal Concept - R6 2008
- The Monash Gaussian & Probabilistic tipping competitions - R7 2008
- Calibrating a Probabilistic Tipster - RHoF 2008
- A Measure of Tipster Performance by Team - R19 2008
- Multi-game Finals: An Improvement? - SF 2008
Statistics and Analyses
- Grand Final History - R25 & R26 2007 + GF 2008
- Dynamics of Season-to-Season Ladder Finishes - P1 2008
- Competition points required for particular ladder finishes - P4 2008
- (General) Irrelevance of Behinds - R12a.1 2007
- Goal Scoring by Winning and Losing Teams - P2 2008
- Flag & Spoon History - P2 2008
- Competitive Balance in VFL/AFL and NRL (a Goosens variation) - P3 2008
- Ranking Teams on Their Head-to-Head Results (Bradley-Terry, Mease, Batchelder-Bersad-Simpson methods) - R9 2007
- Not Just in Basketball Do Successful Teams Rebound - R16.1 2007
- Favourite-Longshot Bias in TAB Sportsbet Markets - R1.1 2008
- Relationship Between MARS Ratings After X Rounds and Ultimate Finalists - R3 2008
- Awarding Competition Points Based on the Margin of Victory - R13.1 2008
The History and Philosophy of MAFL
- The Story of Shadow - Phantom Dog, Professional Tipster - R1 2008
- The Philosophy of MAFL - R1 2008
- The MAFL MARS Ratings - R2 2008 (note that the season-to-season ratings carryover rating is shown in the green box as 740+26% x Previous Year's Rating but should be 530 + 47% x Previous Year's Rating)
Last updated on November 17, 2013 by TonyC
