nfl picks against the spread

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 […]

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,

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

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

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

We are reaching the point of no return. It is make-or-break time. Entering Week 9, the Falcons, Cowboys, Saints, and Chargers were arguably the easiest teams to target for potential wins – given their matchups and recent history. All four teams won and covered their spreads. There were no letdowns. Not one. Easy picks. Easy

Believe it or not, it began as expected. The tide slowly – and subtly – began to shift. As noted in last week’s introduction, the 2016 season has been incredibly odd, but not because of wild swings of action or random bouts of luck – although they have also been present – but for the

We are about to reach a tipping point. It may not happen this week, precisely, but it’s coming. Nearly halfway into the season, we have repeatedly looked back on trends that have produced winners in the past and find that they are flat-out under-performing. Through countless bouts of assessment and re-assessment and re-re-assessment, we continue to