Bet the Mortgage: Week 15, 2015 – Best Bets

by | Dec 17, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Gambling

Well, at least it’s now a contest.
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Andy took it in the shorts last week, losing his three big bets, but saving a little bit of face on his upset pick, but finishing down a whopping $3,700 for the week. Tony managed to go 3-1, but his one loss was his biggest bet, for a net gain of $267.

That pulls Tony within $1,000 of Andy–or rather drops Andy to within $1.000 of Tony–for the season.

And we’re back at it again…

Here is where we stand:

Last week Last week $ Overall Overall $ Bankroll
Andy 1-3 – $3,700 24-31-1 – $6,224 $ 3,776
Tony 3-1 + $267 26-29-1 – $6,954 $ 3,046

With the end of the season in sight, there’s some antsy-ness setting in. They look like they might be ready to ramp things up a notch as we pass the final quarter pole. (more…)

Zoneblitz Survivor Pool 2015: Week 15

by | Dec 17, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Survivor pool

As Don Meredith used to sing at the end of Monday Night Football, the party is over.

Rich suffered his first actual miss of the season last week. Pretty good run to make it to week 14, though. Should have been in Vegas.

Comparatively, Tony, Anthony, John and Andy have combined to miss 22 through 15 weeks.

So, if you are still alive, you now know whose picks to watch.

Here’s the list of who has previously been used: (more…)

NFL Picks 2015: Week 15

by | Dec 16, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

We’re at the three-quarter pole of the season. The playoff races are starting to clear up, though our picks remain weekly-picksinconsistent, at best.

Andy and Tony tied at 11 last week with everyone else falling a game or so behind. Tony is running away with the season-long tally, however. Barring a complete collapse he’ll be hard to catch at this point.

Here’s where we stand:

Week 14 Season
Tony 11-5 134-74
Andy 11-5 128-80
Vomhof 10-6 118-90
Rich 9-7 126-82
Maggio 8-8 125-83

I keep waiting for the barnburner week of division games with playoff implications. This season’s schedule has had a lot of weird, dud games throughout. That mostly continues, even this late in the season. Here’s what we think is going to happen: (more…)

Bet the Mortgage: Week 14, 2015 – Best Bets

by | Dec 9, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Gambling

This is getting dull.weekly-bets

We both, again, went 2-2, in week 13. Tony won a little. Andy lost a little. Between the two of us, we were up for the week … $261 pretend dollars.

There’s no drama at a .500 clip, not with a $10,000 hypothetical bankroll at play for each of us. It’s hard enough keeping this post interesting every week when there are real pretend dollars on the line… some would probably say we fail at even that.

At any rate, Andy’s minor loss kept him within spitting distance of breaking even. Tony’s meager win kept him from a hypothetical mobster pretending to break his legs. And we’re back at it again…

Here is where we stand:

Last week Last week $ Overall Overall $ Bankroll
Andy 2-2 – $327 23-28-1 – $2,524 $ 7,476
Tony 2-2 + $588 23-28-1 – $7,221 $ 2,779

With the end of the season in sight, there’s some antsy-ness setting in. They look like they might be ready to ramp things up a notch as we pass the final quarter pole. (more…)

NFL Picks 2015: Week 14

by | Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 season, NFL Picks

So who would have thought the Carolina Panthers would be the last undefeated team in the league? And that they’d weekly-picksnot lose a game by week 14? And that the next closest team to them would have two losses? And that the Patriots would lose to the Eagles at home, especially after taking a 14-0 lead?

We could play this game all day. The 2015 season has been one for the unexpected and that continued last week. Still, four of our pickers got 10 right and Fantasy Editor Anthony Maggio paced us all with 11. If you didn’t look at the prior 12 weeks, you might think we actually know what we’re doing here… or maybe not.

But anyway, week 14 arrives in a couple days. And here is where our picks stand so far:

  Week 13 Total
Maggio 11-5 117-75
Tony 10-6 123-69
Andy 10-6 120-72
Rich 10-6 117-75
Vomhof 10-6 108-84

And here are our picks for week 14: (more…)