Rufus Peabody is a sports analyst and professional sports bettor, currently traveling the world on Remote Year. He is a 2008 graduate of Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on inefficiencies in the baseball betting market. Mr. Peabody was previously ESPN's 'predictive analytics expert' and many, many years ago got his start in the industry working as a statistical analyst for Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
We’re coming off a 1-2 week, which leaves under profitability, and just slightly over 50% on the year. Here are this week’s picks. As always, these picks are based on the Massey-Peabody ratings, adjusted for home-field advantage. Pittsburgh -1.8 vs. Carolina PICK: CAROLINA +3.5 NY Jets -11.3 vs. Buffalo PICK: NY JETS -7 Atlanta -6.3…
Coming off a 3-3 week, we stay slightly above .500 (but below profitability) for the season. Here are our lines and picks for this week. San Francisco -2.6 vs. Oakland Minnesota -7.0 vs. Detroit Kansas City -7.8 at Cleveland Baltimore -3.9 vs. Pittsburgh Carolina -7.8 vs. Tampa Bay Miami -0.6 vs. NY Jets PICK: NY…
Using the same featured image on our picks last week did not yield the same results. Last week’s picks were an abysmal 1-4-1, putting us slightly below profitability on the year. SAD! Here are this week’s MP lines and picks, trying to avoid typos this week: Houston -5.4 vs. Miami PICK: MIAMI +7/+7.5 Philadelphia -2.2…
Coming off our best week of the season, with our picks going 6-0.5-0.5 (the push-loss being New England -3.25). Hopefully no typos on teams this week, but I make no guarantees! Here are our numbers for this week’s slate: Denver -2.6 at Arizona LA Chargers -7.4 vs. Tennessee (n) Chicago -1.9 vs. New England PICK:…
Last week we went 2.5-3-0.5 (yay asian handicap!). So far this season, we’re slightly worse than a monkey flipping a coin. Here are this week’s slate, and MP picks: Philadelphia -3.2 at NY Giants PICK: PHILADELPHIA -1 Minnesota -10.2 vs. Arizona LA Chargers -4.2 at Cleveland PICK: LA CHARGERS -1 Chicago -2.9 at Miami Washington…
Last week we went 3-4.5-0.5. The half-loss/half-push is because we graded Seattle listed as both -3/-3.5 (so like an Asian handicap), since the market was solidly between those two numbers. Here are this week’s MP lines and picks: New England -7.7 vs. Indianapolis PICK: INDIANAPOLIS +10/+10.5 Baltimore -7.2 at Cleveland PICK: BALTIMORE -3 Kansas City…
PICK: OAKLAND -2.5 vs. Cleveland
Last week’s picks went 4-2. Here are our lines and picks for this week: LA Rams -7.8 vs. Minnesota New England -3.1 vs. Miami PICK: MIAMI +6.5/+7 Indianapolis -2.0 vs. Houston Atlanta -2.6 vs. Cincinnati Green Bay -5.6 vs. Buffalo PICK: BUFFALO +9.5 Dallas -6.1 vs. Detroit PICK: DALLAS -3 Jacksonville -4.4 vs. NY Jets…
Not a lot of good news to recap last week. Our picks went 2-5, dropping us into the negative on the young season. Here are the Massey-Peabody lines for this week’s slate: Cleveland -0.9 vs. NY Jets PICK: NY JETS +3/+3.5 Philadelphia -6.2 vs. Indianapolis Carolina -3.5 vs. Cincinnati Tennessee/Jacksonville off the board due to…
We got off to a solid start last week, with our picks going 3-1-1. There was some negative feedback, including from Cade himself, about switching to one category of picks. As Cade said, the hallmark of a good system is that it should do better as its edge increases. That feedback makes sense. What doesn’t…