On Friday, Flip told me that he was disgusted with his last two weeks' performance and he needed a solid effort to right the ship. He decided to pick an entire slate of favorites. Interesting strategy. I warned him, stating that this has been the year of the dog, with the underdogs going 41-29-4 so far. He stuck with his pick of all favorites. Good call for him. Props.
After a four game losing streak, the favorites carried the week going 7-4-2. They had not won a week since Week 1.
The two Chris's tied for the best week at 7-4-2, with Martin picking a slightly more exciting (though not more successful) combination of chalk and dogs. Props to both of them.
Tyler (2-9-2) brought up the rear this week with the second to worst week of any participant this season. Only a NY Giants win last night kept him ahead of Anderson's Week Four performance.
For our Wisdom of Crowds pick (note: this is a different from the aggregate), we went 5-5-2 to continue our even slate of 33-33-6. Average Rules!
Here are the above/below .500 standings:
Frank 6.5
Martin 4.5
Hanley 3.5
Landes 0.5
Tyler -2.5
Badanes -4.5
Flip -6.5
Matt -9.5
Fun Fact: Against the spread, the Pats are 6-0.
The Pats line ON THE ROAD against the Dolphins opened at 14 points. It has already moved to 16.5 after one day of betting. Heavy, heavy action on the Patriots side. I wonder and have spent ten minutes searching the internet (with no results) to find what was the largest spread in NFL history.
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Okay, here goes:
As far as I can find, the biggest line discussed was an early December game from 1993 between the Bengals and the 49ers. The line was somewhere around 24 points. We'll use that as a baseline.
In a SuperBowl, the biggest line was Super Bowl XXIX in 1995 between the Niners and the Chargers. The Chargers were 19.5 point underdogs.
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