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Super Bowl LIII Prediction

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

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2018 NFL Conference Championship Predictions

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

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2018 NFL Divisional Round Playoff Predictions

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

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Colts - Chiefs & Chargers - Patriots Prediction

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 14

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 13

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 12

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

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Thanksgiving Football Predictions - 2018

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 11

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 10

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 9

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 8

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 7

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 6

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 5

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 4

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 3

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

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Stanford - Oregon Prediction

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 2

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

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Big Five Picks for 2018 NFL Week 1

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

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MLB FanDuel Roster Construction (June 3, 2018)

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

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It's not how you start ... it's how you finish!

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

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Live from the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston (hosted by MIT)

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.

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A Sense of Belonging

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

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Recap of 2017 NFL Season and Super Bowl LII

Summing up an entire NFL season is awfully hard to do in one post. The best place to start is what makes headlines: conflict. As is typical in any football season, there are

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