Statistically Speaking – 2012 Week 06

Statistically Speaking

A familiar face reclaims the Quarterback throne…A Running Back shows us what we can do with our PPR scoring…A 3-horse race is run for the Wide Receiver honors…We get our first repeat Player of the Week winner (it only took 6 weeks)…Another Free Agent Defense is thrown into the fire…only to emerge on top…A new TBFL scoring record…Someone can’t count to 10…Chump Survivor…And another Century Mark is reached…

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

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

Was originally posted at the MFL Message Board on Thursday October 11…just posting to the blog now for posterity…

Making a special effort to get these up in a timely manner…even if they won’t be on the blog till I get home (fucking Web Nazi’s at work)…The Over is the most popular play this week with 5 wagers…Hunter of course takes 3 NCAA plays…3 plays involving the Packers…Both sides of the NYG/SF game see action (a 44 will middle Vegas and let them both win)…Pairs on the Lions and Rams…then single action after that…Good Luck everybody…

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