NFL NFL Power Rankings - Week 4 Still a lot of movement as we are still early in the season. The Eagles haven't been getting too much respect but they are clearly playing like contenders. Here are the NFL Power
Week4 Yay or Nay Week 4 Yay or Nay Week 4: 8 wrong out of 22 picks again. Consistency is good right? I mean if you started Carson Palmer I feel your pain too. That’s honestly karma right
San Still a 49ers Faithful? So the 49ers start off the season well by beating the LA Rams 28 - 0 on Monday Night Football only to get smoked on the road the last two weeks. Oddly, the
Daily Who to Select for Daily Fantasy Football (DraftKings & FanDuel) There are some of you who don't wager on games but are willing to put some money on fantasy football. Well if that is you, consider this lineup for DraftKings and FanDuel. QB:
NFL NFL Picks Straight Up! We will be using the GE model (explained in one of the first posts) to determine which teams to select to win straight up. You can use point spreads but that is public
Survivor Survivor Football Pool Selection Hopefully after 2 weeks of some crazy football, you are still able to pick a team this week. For Week 1, I chose Seattle and of course after a near heart attack following
NFL NFL Power Rankings - Week 3 Late post again with Power Rankings but here they are. Lots of movement for sure with the Seattle offense looking awful again, San Diego and Philadelphia taking charge, and Arizona grabbing the top
Fantasy Week 3 Daily Fantasy Picks QB Aaron Rodgers - I expect Rodgers to return to 2014 form this week. Marcus Mariota - Should be able to exploit a good matchup. Phillip Rivers - losing a lot of targets
NFL Yay or Nay Week 3 Yay or Nay Week 3: 8 wrong out of 22 picks. That’s not good, but hey even the people that get paid to do this have terrible weeks like this one. If
NFL Percentages of NFL teams winning today Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (52.43% PIT) Tennessee at Detroit (67.07% DET) Baltimore at Cleveland (BAL 61.97%) Dallas at Washington (DAL 50.91%) New Orleans at New York Giants (NYG 62.76%
DFS Who to Select for Daily Fantasy Football (DraftKings & FanDuel) The GE Model and looking at the differentials between offenses and defenses proved to be a very fruitful endeavour last week as we identified two matchups that was ripe for scoring and huge
Big Big Five Bets OK, so I went 2-3 last weekend and I have to admit I was a bit nuts by going with 5 favors and so much chalk. I should have known better and this
Daily Week 2 Daily Fantasy Picks QB Stafford - Looked good in game 1 and will continue that trend Sunday. Eli Manning - puts up huge numbers at home and has a great matchup. Saints will be one of
Sportsmanac NFL Power Rankings - Week 2 The Seahawks barely beat a supposedly inferior team in Miami yet they still are the top team according to the GE model I devised. However, the delta between their GE number and the
StartSit Yay or Nay Week 2 Yay or Nay Week 2: Last week was a new experience; I’ve never written a column like this so I wasn’t too hard on myself for some of my picks that
Monday Monday Night Football Wrap Up Here are some key takeaways from the two games last night starting with the late game. The 49ers pretty much played mistake free. This is a sign of very good coaching so kudos
NFL Best NFL Bets Today & Tomorrow Call me crazy but the five games I love most today are all favors. Yes, it is tough to expect so many favors to cover but Week 1 of last year saw favors
DraftKings Who To Play in DraftKings/FanDuel Today If you read some of my earlier posts, the GE number was explained. It essentially provides a good measure of how effective a team's offense and defense is. The stats used right now
DraftKings Daily Fantasy Advice for Week 1 (Sunday Games Only) QBs Derek Carr - It should be a high scoring game in New Orleans this week and Carr should put up great fantasy stats. Matt Stafford - I love starting quarterbacks in games
Picks Week 1 Picks Straight Up I am going to post my picks every Thursday: I will only be picking the winner, not the scores. Panthers vs Broncos : Broncos Buccaneers vs Falcons: Buccaneers Bills vs Ravens: Bills Bears vs
Carolina Prediction for Thursday Night Football Expect tonight's game to be low scoring. Both Carolina and Denver sport solid defenses and the game is being played in the thin air at Mile High. My linear regression model has Carolina
NFL Pre-Week 1 NFL Rankings (total team performance) The rankings shown in this post display the total GE number for each team. The GE number is calculated by looking at each team's offense and defense separately. For offense three key football
NFL Pre-Week 1 NFL Defense Rankings For example, a GE number of +1 means that a team's defense, for the most part, is above average compared to the rest of the league and is worthy of top 5 or
NFL Pre-Week 1 NFL Offense Rankings For example, a GE number of +1 means that a team's offense, for the most part, is above average compared to the rest of the league and is worthy of top 5 or
NFL Welcome to Sportsmanac! Later this week, we will publish predictions for this week's games (straight up and against the spread) and a ranking of all teams before the first regular season game kicks off in Denver!