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ProFootball Pickem Picks – Week 10
Well, after tons of thinking, which is not good in Profootball Pickem, I have finally made my picks and they are outlined below. Let’s see if we can hit a 10 win week after last week’s 2nd half comback.
Week 10 Picks Against the Spread (my picks on left)
San Fran vs CHI -3
Buffalo vs Tenn +6.5
NO vs St. Louis -14.5
Miami vs TB -10
Detroit vs Min +16.5
New York Jets vs Jacksonville -7
Cincinnati vs Pitts +7
Denver vs Washington -3.5
Atlanta vs Carolina -1.5
KC vs Oakland +1.5
Dallas vs Green Bay -3
Arizona vs Seattle -8.5
SD vs Philly -2
Indy vs New England -3
Baltimore vs Cleveland -10.5
There are all of my picks for week 10 in Yahoo Profootball pickem. Since I have been posting my bets, my record is 66-63 ATS. How are your picks doing?
ProFootball Pickem Summary – Week 8 Picks
Over the last couple wee – ks, I have been posting my picks and results in my Yahoo Profootball Pickem league. Needless to say, I am not doing very well against the spread. You can see those posts here and here.
This week, I see that almost all of the home teams are favored, but that does not mean it’s going to be an easy week of picks. There are still point spreads in the double digits for the Colts, Bears, Chargers and Cardinals. Just because those teams are at home, does not mean they can score a touchdown, or two, to cover the spread.
Almost midway through the NFL Sunday, I see that some of these spreads are going to be hard to cover unless we see some major scoring. For now, my picks include:
- Houston -3.5
- Cleveland +13
- Seattle +9.5
- Detroit +0
- Indianapolis -12
- NY Jets -3.0
- NY Giants +0
- Denver +3.5
- Tennessee -3.0
- Oakland +16.5
- Green Bay -3.0
- Arizona -10.0
- New Orleans -10.0
Let’s just hope that I can nail at least 50% of those. Judging by some of the scores so far, it doesn’t look good.
How are your picks doing this year?
Profootball Pickem thru Week 5 – Not Looking Good
If you haven’t been following the last couple weeks, you can check out previous posts about ProFootball Pickem, [here] & [here]. I wanted to do another update post about where I am up to week 5.
Against the Spread
Of course, against the spread is not easy to do. You get games like Seattle vs. Jacksonville with NO LINE and Seattle wins by only 41 points! Well, for the last couple of weeks I have been choosing 4-5 underdogs just to keep it real with the spread.
It has been pretty good for me for the last 2 weeks, giving me a score of 10 out of 14 (picked 3 underdogs) and 7 out of 14 (picked 5 underdogs), respectively. With those stats, it would appear that picking underdogs is a good idea, just don’t pick too many per week.
I am going to stick to about 3-4 underdogs, especially home teams, for the next couple weeks and see how that all turns out.
Where I Rank
At this point, I am sitting, tied with 3 others, at 11 out of the 18 players in the group. With a total score of 39-37, at least I am above the .500 mark through 5 weeks. I really never expect to hit the top 3 overall, because we have those that research football throughout the week, more than I, but I am hoping I can stay above .500 for the year.
Coming Up
Now that we have a good idea of where the football teams are sitting, a couple still undefeated, theh picks should start to get a little easier. I will post my picks for this week on Saturday, if you are interested, maybe they will help you out.
Where are you in your Profootball Pickem Group?
ProFootball Results for Weeks 1 & 2
Well, judging by my picks in week 2, apparently I don’t know squat about picking against the spread, lol. But that is what makes picking against the spread so fun. One week Payton Manning lights things up and can cover a 10 point spread, but the next week he can barely get his team to cover 3 points! My results for week 2 are posted below.
As you can see, I didn’t do very well. There are 18 people in my league and the top guy picked 11 right this week. Here are my results from week 1.
For week one, the top guy picked an amazing 14 correct against the spread. That is just nuts for the first week of football! Right now, I am sitting in 13th place with a record of 14-18. Let’s hope I can get that to change a little as the season goes on.