99th is the best. The top player got 192 wins.
Their math must be wrong. Let me check. Yes. It lists the average scores per week. The final average listed is only 83 wins, WTF!! Adding them up manually gets me 155, not 83. Percentiles were clearly calculated based on the 83 figure. Someone did some shoddy work on that website. Same problem with the spread picks.
Looks like I forgot to put in my Week 15 picks for straight up picks, except the Thursday game (which I lost). Looking them up here I went 9-7.
So I actually did 153-102-1. I thought something was up.
Actually 2 games SHORT of the real average though :(. 3 games short of the real spread pick average as well. Right in the middle.
I narrowly beat a CBS “expert” though.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/features/writers/expert/picks/straight-up/17
Jason La Canfola. Never heard of him.
Math, boy oh boy.
Colts beat KC in KC just a week or two ago so that looks like an interesting rematch in the Hoosier Dome.
Who in the H are the ESPN hosts?
Straight Up isn’t that hard.
CBS’s pundits do a fine job, CBS sports radio is on all the time now.
Jason La Canfora, once you hear the name, you might hear the name more and more.
note 1
i think my total lack of expertise ... my amateur status ... gave me an edge this year, early in the year.
I did not buy into the insider-knowledge crowd that KNEW miami nyj and buff all stunk ... so I got off to a good start. Plus I am a conservative picker. I go with the favorite team unless I see a reason for an upset.
note 2
if ya look at the SD schedule when they were 5-7, you can see why they were counted out ... considering they had no tiebreakers ... it was almost impossible for them to win.
Even after the victory over DEN on THUR nite to go 7-7, their hopes were crushed when BALT and MIA both won that week.
That left them with a 3% chance of playoffs
http://files.nfl-forecast.com/
all 6 remaining games had to go their way
2 SD wins
2 MIA losses
2 BALT losses
At 50/50 each game, that is one out of 64 or 1.5%
note 3
Date & Time Favorite Spread Underdog
1/4 4:35 ET At Indianapolis -2.5 Kansas City
1/4 8:00 ET At Philadelphia -2.5 New Orleans
1/5 1:00 ET At Cincinnati -7 San Diego
1/5 4:30 ET San Francisco -2.5 At Green Bay