Bengals or Rams? Quant Crunches the Numbers for Super Bowl Pick
- Allspring’s Matt Robinson says Los Angeles will take trophy
- Superstitious markets watchers also rooting for NFC’s team
A street vendor in Los Angeles sells plastic necklaces with the logos of the Rams and Bengals before Super Bowl LVI.
Photographer: Maximilian Haupt/picture alliance/Getty ImagesThis Sunday, 100 million Americans will be able to legally bet on the winner of the National Football League’s Super Bowl. According to one markets quant, they’d be smart to pick the Los Angeles Rams to beat the Cincinnati Bengals. And he has the math to back it up.
The quant is Matt Robinson of Los Angeles-based Allspring Global Investments, which has $587 billion in assets under management. He publishes an annual “NFL Alphas” report that looks at how well a team performs throughout the season versus what the market had expected of them.