NFL Week 1 Game Grades

These individual game grades reflect a team’s performance — controlling for home field and strength of opponent — through the lens of the Massey-Peabody ratings. Percentile rating is normalized relative to historical games, and expected score differential is a team’s expected margin of victory against an average team on a neutral field. # season tm week…

2017 NFL Week 1 Picks

A summary of our historical performance can be found here. If you want to verify it yourself, you can go through all our previous blog entries (which I have used to compile this). For lines, I’ve decided to use two offshore books (Pinnacle, Bookmaker) and two Las Vegas books (Westgate, William Hill). Pick lines must be…

2017 “Big Game” Pick

Apologies for not updating this sooner…been a crazy 10 days out in Vegas doing prop betting. Believe it or not, we do have a play–well, it’s officially going to have to be a lean, but if you can price shop, it’s good enough to be an “Other Play”. We make the Patriots a 4.7-point favorite (and…

2017 NFL Divisional Picks

We didn’t have a single official pick last week–we did have a lean on Seattle, which won–but unfortunately, for the seconds straight week, we don’t see much value on sides. In fact, three of the four games are within a tenth of a point of the market. For those of you who really want SOMETHING to…

Playoff %s, Wildcard Round

Our projections, as we begin the playoffs: Team Div Alive Conf Alive Conf Champ SB Win NE 100.0% 87.3% 61.5% 36.6% DAL 100.0% 70.0% 41.7% 19.1% ATL 100.0% 63.3% 29.6% 13.4% KC 100.0% 61.0% 20.8% 9.9% PIT 80.1% 35.1% 12.2% 6.6% SEA 77.2% 28.9% 13.4% 6.5% GB 68.1% 24.7% 10.6% 4.8% NYG 31.9% 8.9% 3.4%…

2016 NFL Week 17

As usual, this year’s Week 17 games provide a set of unique circumstances in many cases. There are four teams who have their seed completely locked up and have very little incentive to play starters–New York, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Houston. Point spreads for those games are pretty disconnected from the actual strength of the teams, so…

2016 NFL Week 16 Picks

Another tough week last week. Philadelphia was our lone big play to cover, while San Fran lost and San Diego either pushed or lost depending on whether you got +2.5 or +3. The Jets, after dominating the first quarter, got steamrolled by Miami, and Cincinnati blew a 14-point lead and couldn’t cover the +3 or…

2016 NFL Week 15 Picks

I am in a rush so no write-up this week. But for those of you losing faith, remember that we’re still a documented 55.04% since 2011, even including this year’s horror. Here are the picks. Big Plays (7-15-2 YTD) Philadelphia +6 at Baltimore [MP Line: PHI +2.3] San Diego +2.5/+3 vs. Oakland [MP Line: SD…