Blog Entries - August 2007

Saturday's Picks: I can't wait for a 9 to 5 job!

twilliams

From now on, when I wake up to find that my dog has peed on a case of beer, I'm not going to wager that day. Navy didn't come close to covering, despite running for about 1000 yards, and Syracuse got hammered. That leaves me up 0.31 units on the season. It's a good thing I followed Accuscore's baseball picks and went with the Devil Rays and Orioles to bring some of that money back.

I'll be honest about tomorrow. Looking at a slate of 36 g [...]

Friday Picks, Thursday Results, and the first draft results of the year

twilliams

I swore to myself that this year would be the year that I would drop down to one or two fantasy football leagues. Last year I was in four leagues, winning two of them, just missing the playoffs in one, and getting destroyed in the other (thank you LaMont Jordan and Edgerrin James.) This year I anticipated only being in my family league, and maybe starting a league up at work. Then I got an invitation to join a league with some friends from college. Then I got an invita [...]

I like the favorites in this weekend's blowouts

oh_steve

So LSU easily covered the spread (opened at 16, moved to 19 in most books) which AccuScore expected. By trouncing Mississippi State on a Thursday, the #2 Tigers raised the bar for other Top Ranked teams like USC, Oklahoma, and Texas.

I don't have all the spreads in front of me, but I'm sure each of these teams are favored by 37 points or more. I don't think the BCS computers give any credit for killing a bad team by 50 vs. by 40 points, but to win the battl [...]

UCLA Basketball Named Preseason #1

jonlee

College football might be kicking off this weekend but in my mind, there's always time for a little college basketball. Lindy's preview magazine came out today and tabbed UCLA its preseason #1. The Bruins are also the favorite as listed by several Vegas sportsbooks.

What does this mean in real world terms? Absolutely nothing really. Rankings don't get you wins in March. It does however, mean that the Bruins are back big-time, both on the court and in the minds a [...]

My 8/30/07 Picks

MeYourDad

I have 2 picks that should be able to cover the spreads fairly easy. I also have "real" money on these picks as well.

Rutgers Scarlet Knights PS -30.5 100 LSU PS -17 100

I had a long explanation on why these teams should win however when I went to publish it. It said I was logged out oh we [...]

Thursday Night Picks 8/30

twilliams

To start off the season, let me throw something out here. I am not a professional handicapper. I am like the majority of you all. I work 40-50 hours a week, I follow sports in my free time (and sometimes in my not so free time), my retirement fund is set up through a 401K account, and I gamble on sports just to make a little extra money for a nice trip or for any other non-important payment. I'm willing to bet that a lot of you are in the same boat as me. The [...]

Max and I

MeYourDad

Max is getting ready for his first NFL, NCAAF season. He has a natural act for picking point spreads with his paws. I just put a little strawberry syrup (max's Fav) on the bottom of his pad take the lines with me out back and let him do his work, I rarely question his ability, and either will you!

7 Things the NFL must change now!

gibby

OK, what's wrong with the NFL? Before you read on be sure you read my previous post about everything that's right about the NFL. Not only is football a great sport but the NFL is the best run league in professional sports. Bar none. But even the greatest have some room for improvement so here goes...Roger, I hope you are taking notes. Only too happy to help. By the way, did you get the fruit basket we sent you? The little plastic wrapped biscotti dipped in chocolate are to die f [...]

www.who-gives-a-s**t.com

oh_steve

I like Yahoo!Sports. I think the web pages load quickly, I get the box score data I need, the new site's got nice pretty photos, but is it just me or aren't their forays into investigative journalism kind of funny?

First, they decide to create controversy because Reggie Bush's parents got some cheap or free rent. With all the things that go wrong in amateur and professional sports is this really the big problem that needs to be brought to peop [...]

Bombed Your Draft? Don't Worry

twilliams

I wasn't planning on writing a post today, but that was before my best friend sent me a message about his fantasy draft. He has never played fantasy football before, and was talked in to it in time to draft on Monday. The result? He takes Drew Brees with the #7 pick in the first round, then takes Donovan McNabb with his second pick.

As you can probably guess, his team needs some work. I've seen worse moves (Santana Moss and Chris Cooley as first and second round picks by a R [...]

College Football and Michael Vick...who knew?

waisallas12

The College football season is just about to begin, and you're in three camps. One, you're in the group that can't wait for it to begin. The pagentry, the tradition, the college football atmosphere, etc.

In the second group lies the NFL fans, who could care less about the beginning of NCAA football.

Finally in the third group stands I.

I used to be in the first group. I couldn't wait for college football season to come around. [...]

BCS to Cinderella: Go Make Me a Sandwich...

Zach

Despite 99% of college football fans getting on their hands and knees and begging, we are still without a playoff. It’s 2007 and we remain saddled with Bowl tradition and odds are we will have another Championship Game determined by politicking on talk-shows instead of plays on the field. College football presents the rare opportunity where our worst nightmares are confirmed. Where the bully wins and it is in your best interest to step on others in an effort [...]

Finding the 2007 NFL Sleeper Teams

twilliams

Yesterday I talked about the correlation between net points and the divisional standings. I checked back to 2002 and found that in the majority of cases, the team with the most net points in their division has a better record. I then decided to analyze each individual record to see the various net point totals for that record over the 5 year span. Once I had all of the totals, I took the average of each record to find out the average net points of a team with a certain record.& [...]

It's Christmas in September...

Zach

Get out the 'ol college jersey and strike up the band because its Christmas time...in September. While most "traditionalists" wait until December, I am celebrating three-months early with a full slate of college games. It is time to find out if Notre Dame can rebuild, LSU can reload, Ohio State can recover and if Florida will repeat.

The first weekend in September means its time to begin unwrapping 8-months of anticipation, highlighted b [...]

System Analyzation: Points Scored

twilliams

This is my second post of the day, but this is something I have been looking at for a week or so, and I figured I would throw it out there. As you know, one of my eight system stats is "Points Scored", which gives a good indication of the point scoring capabilities of your offense. Recently I took a look at the "Net Points" of each team, to see the difference between the points scored and allowed. What I found was pretty interesting, and could improve the [...]

Busting out the big guns

twilliams

Over the weekend I went up to Pennsylvania to my friend's bachelor party. On Sunday morning we went to play paintball. I've had some experience with paintball before, playing back when I was in high school, and then playing earlier this year in a tournament with my co-workers. I can't say I'm a big paintball player though, because there's nothing I hate worse than having welts all over my body.

Usually I see two or three welts in a typical paintball outing, and ma [...]

The NFL Kicks Every Other Sport's A$$. Deal with it.

gibby

The NFL is the greatest sports league in the entire world. Period. Please don't whine to me about baseball when the most exciting thing that could happen in a game is that one team gets no hits. The NHL seems to do more to shoot their sport in the foot than to help it. Soccer? Are you kidding? My theory is that soccer is popular because you can not really pay attention to the game at all while you are drinking and singing then lookup at the last minute [...]

Dining on some fantasy football

twilliams

I was at my favorite suit store about a month ago, picking up my tuxedo for my wedding. A conversation started about possible restaurants that may come to the area. One of the restaurants that we don't have anywhere near us is an Olive Garden. This was brought up, and one of the salesmen stated that after eating the real stuff in Italy, Olive Garden is horrible. Now I'm a fan of Olive Garden, although I've never been to Italy. However, I've had seafo [...]

Charlie Weiss is a GENIUS

oh_steve

So the "genius" Charlie Weiss has picked his starting QB, but won't reveal what his "brilliant" brain has decided until Notre Dame takes the field vs Georgia Tech.

As someone who has to help run AccuScore simulations, I'm aggravated to no end that Weiss thinks he's so special that he doesn't have to share info like who's going to start at QB. Let "non-geniusus" like Wisconsin's Bret Bielama and Florida State's B [...]

System Updates and Accuscore Strategies

twilliams

There are two topics I wanted to talk about today, so I figured I would combine them in to one post. The first topic I will discuss is my NFL system. I'm not sure if I will have enough time to break down every division and write about them all. I would like to do a season prediction post, but I don't think I can manage a summary of all 32 teams. That being said, I do have a plan for the first few weeks of the season.

During the days leading up to th [...]