Gus Elmashni

Funny how my last post was my Super Bowl LIII prediction about 6 months ago and here I am trying to redeem myself with a preseason projection for Super Bowl LIV. I suppose

There probably is no other sporting event in the world that garners as much attention as the Super Bowl. Just go to your local grocery store and you will find several aisles dedicated

With NFL games only on Sunday after two action packed weekends of NFL playoffs and the three day weekend upon us, we have some time to mull over our selections for the upcoming

Sorry for my lack of response for the last few weeks. I was busy wrapping up an insane 2018 but I am happy to say that I am 2/3 of the way

By Milan Baldini (The Poor Man's Matthew Berry) IND @ KC [1/12] 3:35 PM CST KC -5.5 Patrick Mahomes is a likely candidate for NFL MVP and was one of the

OK, super short and sweet again for the picks this week! Way too much going on with grad school and work! Here are the picks with Westgate lines and our model's prediction. Carolina

I have some major grad school assigments due so we will keep this short and sweet. Last week was not a good one: 2-3. Overall, we are 33-26-1. Still profitable. Definitely we will

With Thanksgiving behind us and the holiday shopping season in full swing, we need to get serious about generating some extra cash for Christmas presents! Whether you are in a pool at work

Time is definitely flying by. It seems that we were just celebrating Halloween and here we are with today being Thanksgiving. As has been the case since the NFL's inception in 1920, games

By this time next week, we will have officially started the holiday shopping season. It will be the longest such season possible given that Thanksgiving (the U.S. version given that we now

It looks like this money train is full steam ahead! Since the start of Week 7 we are 14-6 which is 70% accuracy. We have had three 4-1 weeks with one 2-3 week

Keeping it simple this week ... give you my picks and brief analysis. Last week we went 4-1! That is 10-5 for the last three weeks. We are getting a good handle of the

Picking NFL winners can be a fickle business. Week 6 was great where we almost were a perfect 5-0. Last week we started 0-3 but salvaged things with the LA Rams and NY

The crazy thing about football is that one week it can really be devastating and the next week it will just lift you up. Last week was the more positive experience! After going

Last week was a brutal one. 0-5. Sorry if you took my advice. For the season we are 11-13-1. The one thing I have learned in the last 30 years of football prognostication

Had a lot of family events going on this weekend so we will keep this post short and sweet. Here is who we like for Week 5 (lines were established by Westgate this

OK! Last week was a profitable one by going 3-2! Pittsburgh almost blew it for us on Monday Night Football by nearly coughing up a 20 point half-time lead but all we needed

Not a good week last Sunday. 2-3. Not devastating but still not good. Overall we are 6-4 and rank 326th in the SuperContest (out of 3,117 entires) so we need 4-1 or

Most of those who know me well pretty much know which team I am going to predict to win this game. I am a homer but I try to rationalize my predictions with

Hopefully you read your post last week. We had a very good week! 4-1! Great way to start the season! The plan is to do no worse than 3-2 each week. If we

OK, the 7 month silence after an amazing Super Bowl LII contest is now over! We are back to making picks again and this time I have revised the model with all of

We are 1/3 of the way through the regular season and here is what we have learned ... Yankees and Red Sox are both very, very good. Indians and Astros should be in

Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals is about 2 hours away and no need for hyperbole to emphasize how important this game is tonight. The Warriors have had a couple of Game

About to hear and see a panel with the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama! Curious to know what he will be discussing, especially at a conference specific for sports analytics.

It's been about 9 days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that claimed the 17 lives shown in the photo for this post and if there is