everlong

I always play two pick em leagues. One just winners and losers and one vs the spread. This was the weirdest year as for the first time I did better vs the spread than straight up. I got 169 right straight up and 178 right vs the spread. The straight up is lower than normal but the spread is a record.

It just seemed on every tight game I'd take the points but like the favorite and of course the underdog would win and cover.

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slam

If you went .500 against the spread, you are better than Bill Simmons.

Geez, everlong. 178 would have won the ESPN game by a country mile. The best user out of 12,837 there had 160 right.

Ron Sellers

I was in a PatsFans.com pick'em league on Yahoo; the top score was over 71% correct and the lowest was over 64% - although those numbers are slightly skewed because the two worst weeks were dropped. In the case of that top score they dropped a 7-6 and 8-5 week, so their 163-67 record was actually 176-78, or 69.29%. The next 15 or so players were all within about six or seven wins, which would put them in the upper half of the OP's media experts. Personally I was 158-71 (I forgot to make picks in the two weeks that were dropped), which was 69% correct.

Based on all these numbers I wouldn't imagine Mohegan Sun is in any jeopardy of having to payout that $1,000,000 anytime soon. I cant see even the nation's best NFL handicapper getting 201 picks correct. That's 25 more correct picks than they very best listed; that's more of a delta than there was between the top score and the worst score listed.

Everlong's number is incredible. Generally going against the spread you hope to be over 55% and 60% is about as good as it gets.

Prefect

I ended up going 167-89 (65.2%) picking the games straight up.

IllegalContact

176-80

didn't come close to winning the pool

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Nikolai

176 for me...good enough for 10th place in my pool.

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buile

I guess this just means "knowing" about football involves a lot more than picking winners and losers.