It is only fitting for one of the wackiest NFL seasons in recent memory to conclude with a few wacky scheduling quirks – and, by extension, oddities against the spread. After this week, a full ‘Sunday’ schedule of games will be played on Saturday – Christmas Eve – followed by the new standard of division-only […]
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In what feels like an instant, we are into the final quarter of the 2016 season. The temperature has dropped, the stakes have risen, and the matchups for this weekend’s action are conveniently excellent. At least, for the football fan. Not so much for the fantasy football owner. As a combination of weather and matchups,
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Finally. Finally, a move was made. And finally, we have a week set up for excitement. We began last week’s column with the notion that a relatively random set of outcomes had been featured recently and mentioned that this lack of a developing trend placed the state of picks on proverbial thin ice. In Week 13,
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As we approach the final quarter of the 2016 NFL season, we can better assess the true direction of most teams. More importantly, we now have a solid grasp on the style of offense that each squad would like to utilize and can make reasonable projections for whether-or-not it fits into a specific matchup. Week
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Now, it gets tricky. Despite our best statistical week against the spread of the season – based on differing websites, this ranged anywhere from 10-5-1 to 12-4 – Week 12 surprisingly did little to establish a trend or direction. Indeed, the Patriots and Cowboys – two of the ‘easiest’ teams to pick, generally – finally
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With three games already played – on Thanksgiving – to kick off Week 12, we are presented with a slightly smaller slate of games, despite no teams on bye weeks. There does appear to exist a common thread throughout the matchups, as we could be in store for a high number of close games and
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This is just impossible. There are bad weeks. There are bad months. But it is maddening to see that an entire season just refuses to play by the rules. This is nothing new, as we have basically written this same introduction a number of times over the past few months, but it is bordering on
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Not every week of the NFL season brings an underlying storyline, but Sunday’s is undeniable – revenge. Indeed, the teams are not necessarily enacting revenge on their opponents, but rather release their frustration on the unwitting franchise unlucky enough to be on the receiving end. Specifically, a few of the best fantasy options of the
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There it is. In one fell swoop, the rug was pulled from under the feet of the entire football-watching world. Only, unlike previous weeks, there were more feet standing on the rug. More feet to be tripped. Coincidence? Of course not. For the entire season, we have preached about the false positives that the 2016
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Despite 26 teams in action on Sunday and Monday in Week 10, only two division games remain after Thursday night’s contest. The lack of familiarity between opponents forces an extra level of consideration when breaking down each game, but it likely also contributed to universally smaller spreads and, thus, a higher expectation of potentially closer
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