Week 2 Picks Update & Week 3 Picks

A quick update on our picks from last week, and our week 3 picks, before we (hopefully) get back into some regular posting.

The postponement of the Texans/Ravens game made things a little interesting–it was originally our one point game in our ranked picks, and the pool organizer simply adjusted everyone’s points around it–so no concern there. But in our head-to-head competition, it meant I was a game short–and it wouldn’t technically get made up, since we always pick 16 games a week (using college games as fill ins for byes).

So, to make things fair for us, we dropped Andy’s last selection, his 2-point pick of Tennessee over the Bengals. That makes him 5-2 for the week–which is what I pulled off too. So head-to-head, he keeps a significant lead thanks to Week 1, 12-3 to 6-9.

So overall, we were 11-4–which probably would have been fairly decent, if not for missing our 13-pointer (New Orleans over Washington) and our 12-pointer (San Diego over Denver). We finished at 86 points for the week (103 won the week), and are currently tied for 71st place overall.

Individually, we each finished 11-4 on our own–we both missed on Kansas City over Oakland, New Orleans over Washington, and Seattle over San Francisco. Andy missed out on San Diego over Denver, and I missed out on Atlanta over Tampa Bay. Andy is now 22-9 for the year, while I am 18-13.

Against the spread, both of us probably should have planned to go to Vegas for week 2 rather than week one. Andy finished 10-4-1, while I finished a little over .500 at 8-6-1.

A lot of differences in Week 3, at least against the spread.  Not surprising, given the difficulty of the week–lots of good teams facing good teams, and bad teams facing bad teams.  For the Ranked Picks, I elected to go with the 15-14 point games, rather than go for the 16-pointer this week.