Congrats Steel.
2014-2015 Sowal College Football Pick'em
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Congrats Steel Man! Now I know why Vegas doesn't like people like us, we are 8 and 6% better than average). D was coming on too! Bowl season starts in two weeks.
Ah, yes...but wonder how we would have all performed if every game we had to pick versus the spread ( versus just the winner)...
Yesterday a good example for me...was going to parlay FSU (-4) + Houston Rockets ( pick'em over Phoenix Suns)
+ Santa Clara (-3.5 CBB)...
Walked up up to the ticket window @ MGM, and while standing in line just got queasy about FSU and those points and just used the MoneyLine ( FSU -180) for the three-teamer..
That fortunate decision was the diff between winning $460 and losing $100...
hmmmmn.
I would like to thank Al Gore for inventing the Internet so I could get Vegas odds online and player and field conditions for each game. Which helped me make good guesses. Bowl and playoff pics will be very difficult since bowl games are rewards and who knows which team will show up....does the winner and runner up get a check or tax free CASH??
Steely is right...it is only right we thank those whom contributed to our success...
Far too many for me to mention, but here are just a few:
First and foremost, the crack-team of wiseguys I consulted weekly...
James " Bookie Buster" Johnson
Benny " The Butcher" Scallini
The " Moneyballer Twins" Yolanda and Latifah
Charlie Smith, AKA " Mr Wallstreet"
"Chicken Little" Anthony Telly
Billy Bones ( yeah, his real name, at least he said it was?)
" Fat Freddy" Fazini
Next, a shout out to all the street hustlers, alley cats and bar wenches who were willing to reveal hidden handicapping secrets never revealed to the general public ( and these were just those here in Destin and Panama City... So many in Vegas I can't even recall)
In summary, it's highly unlikely I could ever have own two weeks of the contest and still ended up under 50% winners for the regular season without such diligent and painstaking research, and the 3 days a week I treated this endeavor like a full time job...
-Reading every team's injury report cover to cover, and looking up all those medical terms on Google
-24 hour a day Sports Center and ESPN
- Calculating the standard deviation of each team's against-the-spread and straight-up records over a 60 game moving average for all D-1 CFB regular season games played in the last five years
There's more of course, but I'll say this:
------- Better than I did last year!!!!
Bac
Far too many for me to mention, but here are just a few:
First and foremost, the crack-team of wiseguys I consulted weekly...
James " Bookie Buster" Johnson
Benny " The Butcher" Scallini
The " Moneyballer Twins" Yolanda and Latifah
Charlie Smith, AKA " Mr Wallstreet"
"Chicken Little" Anthony Telly
Billy Bones ( yeah, his real name, at least he said it was?)
" Fat Freddy" Fazini
Next, a shout out to all the street hustlers, alley cats and bar wenches who were willing to reveal hidden handicapping secrets never revealed to the general public ( and these were just those here in Destin and Panama City... So many in Vegas I can't even recall)
In summary, it's highly unlikely I could ever have own two weeks of the contest and still ended up under 50% winners for the regular season without such diligent and painstaking research, and the 3 days a week I treated this endeavor like a full time job...
-Reading every team's injury report cover to cover, and looking up all those medical terms on Google
-24 hour a day Sports Center and ESPN
- Calculating the standard deviation of each team's against-the-spread and straight-up records over a 60 game moving average for all D-1 CFB regular season games played in the last five years
There's more of course, but I'll say this:
------- Better than I did last year!!!!
Bac
Funny too. Congrats for being the regular season champ.
All of the pickers need to get together January 12th or later to celebrate with steel1man, the bowl champ, and the overall champ. Start thinking about when you'd like to get together. BTW the MLK holiday is January 19, so I think all schools are out Friday through Monday. Everyone I know goes snow skiing those four days. We don't. I don't want to pay to be cold. LOL.
Unfortunately that won't be possible for me since I'm 500 miles away and since I am unemployed now as of two months ago we may not get back to the beach this next year at all as I have to buckle down and try to find some type of job.
I look at the Vegas Odds each week also but not all games go the way the odds show. Some are very close spreads or just say pk, assuming for your pick.
Okay, folks. Posting the rules for the bowl picks. They have not all been announced yet, but you can start making your decisions on most of them.
RULES FOR BOWL PICK'EMS:
The bowl games start on Saturday, December 20. Make your picks by 10 AM CST that morning. To avoid forfeiting games, ALL PICKS FOR ALL BOWL GAMES ARE DUE THEN. IF YOU POST EARLIER, EDITING IS ALLOWED UNTIL 10 AM CST ON 12/20, BUT NO EDITS ARE ALLOWED AFTER THEN. There are just too many bowl games to have to record the picks piecemeal.
After 12/20 at 10 AM CST, you may make one post with all picks for all bowl games on any day you want, but you forfeit all games on the day you post if you don’t post by 10 AM CST, and of course you forfeit all games prior to that day. Again, no edits are allowed after you post.
There will be no points.
The regular season champ has already been named. There will also be a bowl champ. And the overall champ will be the one who has the most wins in the regular season and the bowls combined.
So invite your friends to play the bowl games. Even if they didn't play in the regular season, they could still be the bowl champ.
Happy picking!
BR and cnestg8r
RULES FOR BOWL PICK'EMS:
The bowl games start on Saturday, December 20. Make your picks by 10 AM CST that morning. To avoid forfeiting games, ALL PICKS FOR ALL BOWL GAMES ARE DUE THEN. IF YOU POST EARLIER, EDITING IS ALLOWED UNTIL 10 AM CST ON 12/20, BUT NO EDITS ARE ALLOWED AFTER THEN. There are just too many bowl games to have to record the picks piecemeal.
After 12/20 at 10 AM CST, you may make one post with all picks for all bowl games on any day you want, but you forfeit all games on the day you post if you don’t post by 10 AM CST, and of course you forfeit all games prior to that day. Again, no edits are allowed after you post.
There will be no points.
The regular season champ has already been named. There will also be a bowl champ. And the overall champ will be the one who has the most wins in the regular season and the bowls combined.
So invite your friends to play the bowl games. Even if they didn't play in the regular season, they could still be the bowl champ.
Happy picking!
BR and cnestg8r
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