These first 2 weeks have been rough. Where to even begin. Well, lets start with where I was last year.
Current Betting Log NFL: 8-14-1 $-187 College: 8-5 $+47 Fanduel: $-150
— Tom Stortz (@rnningfool) September 26, 2014
Good to know I’m equally bad this year. I didn’t keep track of my win totals betting but I know that I’m down exactly $200 Bovada dollars on NFL and College. My college record is 1-5 which a monkey could pick better and my NFL is not much better.
I didn’t deposit any cash into Fanduel so I was playing with last year’s money but that’s down to $13 from $50. The only deposit I made into DraftKings since I won $100 bucks on some golf tournament is $100 and my balance is $45 which means I’m down around $150. Even worse is if you look back at that one post I put my lineups in, the team that was my best didn’t even get entered in a tournament which I can’t explain.
Fantasy is not going great as I’m 2-8 this year losing one game by .6 and another by .3. My teams are scoring points but I’m hitting fire in my matchups.
Throw in a week of accurately picking 3! games in a league where all you have to do is pick the team that wins and my hands are being thrown up in the air like WTF.
Obviously football is not an exact science. The idea of predicting events to happen before they do is not as easy as it sounds. Despite every huge winner on the DraftKings commercials, real life isn’t so easy. This season is obviously testing my resolve. On to week 3.
For the SW pick ’em – if you picked the home team every single time for the first two weeks, you’d have 19 right over the first two weeks which would put you in a tie for third (out of 29) and only one behind first place after two weeks. My picks for this week? All home teams.
Games where the home team is a dog:
Dallas vs. Atlanta (-1)
Titans vs. Colts (-3.5)
Rams vs. Steelers (-1)
I’ll take Dallas, Tennessee, and St. Louis no problem.
As for fantasy. I scored 49 points this week. Sub 50 should be a perma-ban.