2015 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick Contest – Week 4 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest

“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

No clear cut favorites emerging in Week 4 like the past few weeks…the Panthers/Bucs & Vikings/Broncos games have the most Units wagered on them with 4 each…Both split 2 on the OVER and 2 on Favorite to cover…the Eagles to outright cover have the most individual Units wagered with 3…we then get double-shots on the Cardinals…Seahawks…and Chiefs/Bengals OVER…and singles to fill it all in…Hunter’s NCAA Master Lock of the Week is the Alabama Crimson Tide actually getting points for what seems like the 1st time in a generation…Good Luck with your STIB everybody…
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Statistically Speaking – 2015 Week 03

Statistically Speaking

Yeah it’s going up late on Thursday…deal with it…Can You Say POINTS!…There may be a few hundred extra laying around on my bench if you need some…How big a week is it when a QB throwing 5 TD’s is not that exceptional?…We get Career Records broken…Team Records Broken…NFL Records Broken…We get a pair of Back-2-Back award winners…Streaks come to an end…100 is a lot of anything…Milestones are reached…lets get going…
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2015 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 3 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest

“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Lots of Winners in Week 3 as we manage to go 19-10-1 as a group…good enough for a 65.5% WIN Rate…and put $600 into the Virtual Piggybank…bringing the season balance up to +$700…Miller was the only player to go Perfect on his selections…Huss went 1-2-0…and Hunter went 1-1-1 getting a PUSH on A&M and a LOSS on the Lock of the Week with TCU winning but not covering…everyone else went 2-1-0 for Week 3…Indy was the biggest killer with 3 Units lost on the Colts inability to cover 3 points…while 5 Units were won on the Steelers and OVER plays…

For the season we are 51-35-4…a 59.3% WIN Rate…Miller moving up to 7-1-1 has passed Shawn (7-2-0) by a ½ game….Shannon remains in 3rd at 6-3-0…The Lock of the Week sits at 1-2-0…Full results below…
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2015 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 3 Picks

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest

“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Week 3 may be a Boom or Bust situation as we concentrate many Units into a handful of games…The Steelers laying 1 on the road is the most popular play with 5 Units wagered…4 Units in total will go to the Texans/Bucs matchup…but we have Units on both sides of the game and the OVER…Even after that disastrous Monday Night outing…the Colts find 3 Units thrown their way to cover the Titans on the road…we get Double-Shots on the Falcons pick-em, Panthers laying 3, and Bears to stay within 2 Touchdowns…Hunter’s Lock of the Week is the TCU Horned Frogs laying 6½ to the Red Raiders…Good Luck wth your STIB everybody…Full selections below…
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Statistically Speaking – 2015 Week 02

Statistically Speaking

Okay…it is technically Thursday…but really early Thursday…maybe still Wednesday out by Eric…but there was much research to be done…QB’s battle with Quality over Quantity…All of the best RB’s were nowhere to be found…WR vets have a Thrash-off…3 Kickers go above and beyond…and the supposedly unstoppable force really does meet the immovable object…TOTW is really good…COTW is historically bad…and we break down the history of the matchup…Let’s go…
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2015 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 2 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest

“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Our gang of degenerates managed only 14-16-0 in Week 2…a 46.7% Win Rate…including a miss on the Lock of the Week with Bama being upset by Ole Miss…3 Units wagered against the Redskins proved to be the difference maker between the Black & Red sides of the ledger with $500 being taken back out of the Virtual Piggybank…Shawn managed perfection on his Over Totals..getting 1 point buffers on 2 of the games…while Tim and Burgess both managed 0-3 for the week…

For the season we are 32-25-3…a 56.1% Win Rate…good enough to still be $100 to the positive in the Virtual Piggybank…Shawn has the lead at 5-1-0…followed by Miller at 4-1-1…and Shannon at 4-2-0…The Lock of the Week sits at 1-1-0…

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