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Doctor Baseball

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I know a lot of guys here at madjacks love to fade what Joe Public likes.
* Everytime I saw someone talking about "joe public or squares" makes me think what are we. I mean (well at least me) we are not sharp guys who makes a line move up or down, the only difference is that we are degenerates bastards that gambles day after day, but that doesnt make us sharp or wise guys IMO.

Anyway, here are the % of the football pick `em at yahoo, hope it helps:

PITTSBURGH (0.0)
Miami
50.9
49.1

TAMPA BAY (3.0)
Baltimore
63.4
36.6

CLEVELAND (3.0)
New Orleans
57.1
42.9

CAROLINA (5.0)
Atlanta
76.1
23.9

Seattle (6.0)
DETROIT
83.2
16.8

Philadelphia (4.5)
HOUSTON
81.0
19.0

TENNESSEE (3.0)
New York (NYJ)
68.2
31.8

KANSAS CITY (2.5)
Cincinnati
33.0
67.0

Denver (3.5)
ST. LOUIS
72.2
27.8

NEW ENGLAND (9.0)
Buffalo
74.8
25.2

JACKSONVILLE (2.5)
Dallas
36.5
63.5

Chicago (3.5)
GREEN BAY
73.2
26.8

ARIZONA (7.5)
San Francisco
77.5
22.5

Indianapolis (3.5)
NEW YORK (NYG)
67.7
32.3

WASHINGTON (4.5)
Minnesota
66.6
33.4

San Diego (3.0)
OAKLAND
70.2
29.8

JLo
 

ImFeklhr

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I believe the Yahoo Pickem is straight up and not against the spread.

Joe Public reacts to who they think will win the game and not who will cover. That is the differance between them and us. Hopefully.
 

THE KOD

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* Everytime I saw someone talking about "joe public or squares" makes me think what are we. I mean (well at least me) we are not sharp guys who makes a line move up or down, the only difference is that we are degenerates bastards that gambles day after day, but that doesnt make us sharp or wise guys IMO.

JLo
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JLo

Kinda like answering the question ,

why was I put on this earth. ?

do you still like the corona ?

KOD
 

ImFeklhr

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Always seemed to me that the ProPickem contest on Yahoo was based on straight up winners and not the spread.

Huge favorites (of a TD or more) always get 75% of the votes, or more. Close lines are split 50-50.

I don't even see the spreads listed anywhere.

Just found the Overview of the rules:

Overview

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Welcome to Yahoo! Sports Pro Football Pick'em, a weekly game that lets you show your smarts by picking the winner of this year's regular season games.

All you have to do is enter your selections each week. You'll get points for every correct pick you make while we do all the hard work of gathering the results, and computing the point totals and standings.

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Maybe we are talking about different things though?
 

ryson

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The yahoo pick em league that I played in was ATS (closing line as of Thursday) and then you gave confidence points based upon that line (1-15). E.g. if team X was your lock of the week ATS then you would give them a value of 15 for your confidence points and so on. Then the score of each person was based upon making the right call ATS and then how many confidence points you attributed to a particular team. I believe the confidence points are a choice when you set up the league.
 

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********* has a good concensus site if your interested in that sort of thing, Seattle at 79% right now.:scared :scared :scared
 

Hurricane79

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General rule of thumb...

Fade 'Joe Public' AFTER week three...

(When the lines are getting tighter)
 
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