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Straight Up Football Picks - Week 7

Click here for straight up picks with confidence factor included.

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Week

Week 7 Daily Fantasy Picks

Week 7 Daily Fantasy Picks QB Tom Brady - If you go with the low priced RBs you should be able to pay up for Brady. The man is on a war path

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DFS

How to make thousands of dollars in fantasy football

OK. You might be thinking I am some sort of quack with the title of this article. Yes, you do need a good degree of luck to succeed in a game like DraftKings

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NFL

Survivor Pool

Now we publish 5 teams we like to win straight up today. They are in order of confident so first team listed is most confident and so on. Arizona Buffalo Pittsburgh New England

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NFL

Straight Up Football Picks - Week 6

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Week 6 Daily Fantasy Picks

QB Tom Brady - if you want to put up for QB you can't go wrong with Brady. Russel Wilson - Wilson faces an Atlanta defense that has given up a ton of

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Fanasty

Potential Lineups for DraftKings

Eli Manning, Terrance West, DeAndre Washington, Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham Jr., Emmanuel Sanders, Hunter Henry, Robert Woods, Minnesota DST Ben Roethlisberger, Jordan Howard, Theo Riddick, Antonio Brown, Brandon Marshall, Steve Smith Sr., Zach

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NFL

Straight Up Football Picks - Week 5

No long write up. Here is who the GE Model likes. ARZ NE PHI IND MIA BAL MIN PIT DEN DAL BUF OAK GB CAR If you took Atlanta moneyline last week, good

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Giants - Cubs NLDS Preview

Never a good thing to be on the SI cover before the postseason, especially for a team that seems to have a 108 year curse on them! The Cubs are clearly the overwhelming

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NFL

Straight Up Football Picks - Week 4

One of the funniest characters I have seen in a gambling movie: Teddy "KGB" in Rounders played by John Malkovich! He beat me STRAIGHT UP! Pay him! Pay that man his

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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%

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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