2014 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 1 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest

“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

We kick off Week 1 split right down the middle…well almost anyway…14-15-1 is a 48.3% Win Rate…and starts the Virtual Piggybank a little hungry down $400 to start the season…Burgess and Huss both caught backdoor covers from Indy and San Diego to stay perfect…while Kevin got caught with a PUSH playing from the Denver side to end at 2-0-1…An NCAA-less Hunter…New Player Josh…and Yours Truly all added the Egg Kansas City laid against Tennessee to our Goose Egg collections or we could have ended in the BLACK overall…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 15 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest

“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Now that is the way to rebound…After a Week so bad we dare not say it’s name…we blast back with a 22-2 weekend that featured 6 players going 3-0…only Burgess and Gasper go 2-1 with plays on Pittsburgh and Jacksonville…91.7% Win rate is our best ever in the history of the contest and adds $1,760 back to our virtual bankroll which now sits at $5,500

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 14 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Ohhh…The Carnage!…2 Plays on New England, 2 on San Fran, A Redskins, and an Over…That’s all the good news there is…6-18 on the weekend is now our worst ever in the history of the contest beating out the dismal 8-16 effort from Week 13 of 2011…We gave back a full Quarter of our bankroll…$1,440…leaving us at $3,940 on the season…Riley’s homer pick keeps him as the only player in the black…Burgess’s streak of winning weekends ends on 13…he falls into a tie for the lead with Miller with only 3 Weekends left to play…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 13 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

It’s the worst week we have had all year…and we finish right on .500 out only the $240 vig…leaving the virtual bankroll at $5,380…Hunter is streaking late as he goes 3-0 for the 3rd week in a row…Miller bounces back from last week with his own 3-0  weekend and moves back into 2nd place…Burgess continues his remarkable run of no losing weekends…After 13 Weeks he is the only player still on single digit losses (Yes, ties count as ½ losses so Miller has 10)…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 12 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Not our best weekend…but 13-9-2 is still in the Black for the 4th week in a row…adding +$160 to the Virtual Piggybank which now sits at $5,620…Hunter’s NCAA picks are the only ones that go a perfect 3-0 for the second week in a row…Good enough to bring him back into the Black on the season with a 58.33% win rate…Shannon falls a Push behind perfection with a Lossless 2-0-1 and pulls a ½ game ahead of Miller for 2nd place behind Burgess…who continues his streak of 12 consecutive winning weeks…Shawn suffers a ½ and a 1½ pt loss on his OVER plays to go 0-3 and falls as the sole player in the Red Zone

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 11 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

All or nothing pays off again…barely…Shawn got his sole win on a 1pt margin from the Saints/Raiders Over…and the 5 people who took the Packers to cover won by a ½pt margin when Crosby kicked a Field Goal with :19 seconds left to play…But a ½pt win is worth the same as a runaway cover in our books…16-5-3 is good for +$860 to the Virtual Bankroll which now sits at $5,460…Burgess keeps his streak alive with no losing weeks on the year…and he is 9-0 over the last 3 weeks…Miller took a push from the Ravens this week to fall back ½ a game and is 8-0-1 over that span…Riley runs 3-0 again and sits 8-1-0 over the last 3 weeks…Hunter runs 3-0 on his NCAA picks and is just $30 into the red…Will they both be facing off with the Michigan/THE OSU outcome?…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 10 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

16-8-0 in Week 10…Good enough to add another $560 to our Virtual Bankroll after the vig…bringing us to a total of $4,600 on the season…Burgess continues his streak of 10 winning weeks with a back-2-back 3-0 outing to maintain his grip on 1st place…Miller matches the effort to stay a ½ game back in 2nd moving ahead of Shannon by the ½ game…All three of them are over 73% winners after 10 weeks…Hunter’s NCAA picks go 1-2 bringing him back down to .500 and out the $300 in vig on the year…

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Statistically Speaking – 2012 Week 9

Statistically Speaking

Yeah…yeah…yeah…3 weeks in a  row rushing this out before the Thursday Kick Off…It would have been up yesterday…but my 2nd PC died in my house in a week…and I literally got this one from a guy at 10:30 last night from Craigslist…This just in…Chicago is good…Lots of multi-time winners this week…including 3 going back-2-back…Chump Survivor…the updated Playoff Picture…and…well that’s it actually…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 9 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

Best. Week. Ev—[Wait for it]—er. Giants…Raiders…Redskins…That’s all we missed on…21-3 is the best week we have ever posted in the Chris Thomas Five Star contest as a group adding $1,560 in Week 9 to our Virtual Piggybank…now sitting at $4,040 on the season…Shannon, Gasper, and Shawn each took one of the hits to go 2-1…Everyone else was perfect…all 8 players landing in the Black…Burgess catches back up to Shannon for the overall lead with both players hitting a 74.1% win rate…Miller is a ½ game back at 72.2%…The perfect weekend brings Hunter back on the right side of .500 but he is still the only player in the Red Zone after the vig…

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2012 Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Contest – Week 6 Results

The Chris Thomas 5 Star Pick 3 Handicapping Contest“ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR UNIT”

We took Vegas to the woodshed in Week 6…18-6-0 as a group (75.0%) with only Gasper on the wrong side of the ledger…We added $960 to the virtual bankroll…86-56-2 on the year is a 60.6%  win rate for the group…but it was just barely that way…5 games were won on underdogs who made the cover by 1½ points or less…Hunter gets 2 of those gifts (South Carolina by 1, Stanford by 1½) to go 3-0 on his NCAA picks for the first time since Week 1…bringing himself to only out the vig on the year…Miller gets 2 more (St Louis by ½, Dallas by 1½) to also go perfect on the weekend and move up to alone in 2nd place…Burgess gets the last gift with the ½ point hook from St Louis to keep his streak of no losing weekends on the year…he remains the leader with a ridiculous 72.2% win rate…Riley stays on his streak of 5 ‘perfect weekends’…this time going to the positive side of things…full results are below…

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