Cortana vs. Elo -- The computers have made their picks for Week 1 of the NFL

Maddie Meyer/Getty The NFL season is back and it is time to make picks and everybody could always use a little help. Below we take a look at two popular systems used to pick NFL games — Cortana, Microsoft's digital assistant, and Elo, the modeling system used by Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight.com. In both cases, the computers are picking outright winners and are not picking against the spread. However, both give a likelihood of teams winning which, in theory, could help measure the strength of ...