NFL Week 12 Free Picks & NFL Weather

With  3 NFL  games on Thursday, 12 on Sunday and 1 on Monday, we enter the final stretch of the NFL Season.


Below are this weekends NFL Week "Free Picks" that we have consolidated from various web sites around the web:


Minnesota Vikings +9.5
New York Jets -9.5
Arizona Cardinals +2.5
Seattle Seahawks -3
Chicago Bears +3
New York Jets -9.5
TB/TEN OVER 43 


For our unique worksheet view of which sites these NFL picks came from and a table view of the overall weeks NFL odds; Click Here


We are finally done with the Bye Weeks.


 Final Thought:  Weather forecast is for rain @ 4 games this week (details can be found HERE)


Question: Will any team in the AFC West finish with a better than .500 win percentage?


Remember that continuing education is the key to mastering any endeavor, a good way to improve your handicapping is to read great books such as:

NFL Week 1 Free Picks Results

What a great weekend of NFL football !!!!

The 3 handicappers we followed this weeks had some good and bad results:

	Wunderdog		1-1
	FootballLOCKS		1-0
	PredictEM		1-4-1

Note:  Wunderdog also publishes results for its paid service HERE; results for week 1 were 6-3

A couple of interesting results from NFL Week 1 included:

-   13 games covered the OVER; so much for defense !!!

-   Only 8 home teams covered the spread

-   5 of 7 teams (70%) from the "Week 1" underdog system (Details Here) covered the spread !!!

Lets hope that the rest of the NFL season is as exciting as week 1 !!!

NFL Week 2 is the most interesting week for oddsmaking and handicapping

Interesting read about NFL week 2 can be found at:

NFL odds: Week 2 opening line report

Questions raised include:

"Are the Chiefs that bad? Are the Ravens that good?

Where was the Falcons’ explosiveness? Did Cam Newton prove something with 422 passing yards?"

A couple of the key betting insights from the article include:

“...Remember that the rule of thumb for the betting public tends to be, ‘Accept Week 1 as gospel’ rather than aberrations.”

".... “because the performances in Week 1 didn’t match the quality of the teams…More data means you can tell whether one game was a fluke or the start of something.”

“.....Rex Grossman looked very comfortable, and they played with a lot of confidence, energy and enthusiasm,” SuperBook manager Jay Kornegay told Covers.com. “The key is how good Grossman looked. Of course, he can change colors at any times.”

NFL Week 1 Free Picks & Betting Opportunities !!!

NFL Football gets in full swing this Sunday and Monday.  Great NFL games provide great betting opportunities !!!!!

If the 1st NFL game on Thursday with the Packers and Saints is any indication, we are in for a great Sunday of NFL football.

NFL Week 1 will provide some interesting betting games due to the NFL "Lockout", new players with new teams, new coaches with new teams and new rule changes.

Remember to look at unique NFL Week 1 strategies such as the "underdog who lost 10 games in 2010" discussed by Wunderdog's  Geoff Kulesa on the ESPN Podcast discussed in our previous post located HERE

Below are the weekend NFL Week 1 "Free Picks" that we have consolidated from various web sites around the web.

Falcons -2.5
 Bengals +6.5
 Buccaneers -1.5
 Jaguars -2
 NE/MIA UNDER 45.5
49ers -5.5

For a view of which sites these NFL picks came from and a table view of the overall weeks NFL odds; click here

Good Luck !!!!

Remember to take a moment on Sunday to honor the victims and heroes on 9/11

NFL week 1 - Saints @ Packers - Free Betting Picks

NFL is finally ready for kickoff !!!!

In our inaugural season of providing unbiased analysis of Football Betting Picks by various handicappers, we will start with the NFL Thursday nite game of New Orleans Saints at Green Bay Packers.

The free picks we have scoured the web for today are: (Results updated after game)

	Saints @ Packers
		Spread	Over / Under		Results
	Current Odds (@ time of post)	GB -4.5 to 5	47.5 to 48	Link	GB – 34-28
	WunderDog		Under	Details	Loss
	Doc Sports (Doc Moseman)	Packers	Under	Details	Loss (2)
	Predict Em (Badger)	Saints		Details	Win

As the season begins we will consolidate the results from each week in consolidated worksheet providing the results by week and for the entire season.

Betting NFL Week 1?

Behind The Bets: 8/31 - ESPN

Wunderdog Sports about the value in Week 1 NFL betting lines.

Podcast by ESPNs Chad Millman as he talks with Geoff Kulesa of Wunderdog Sports. Insights into a football handicapper that had a 60% success rate with his picks last year.

Interesting "blind system" discussed near the 24 minute mark of podcast;

  NFL week 1; bet underdog if they have lost 10 games or more last year

Betting every week 1 NFL team that met this criteria since 1990, results in a 57% winning record.

Entire Podcast can be listened to HERE