Yep I am in as well, sent the fee yesterday. And my sleeper says it needs to be updated. Gonna take care of that now.

Do we get some sort of links to join here, or?

Hmm... Looks like Round 1 was more of a disappointment for me than a success. 7–9 is actually worse than an average result. I'm definitely not an American football expert, but I was hoping for something better.
 
The biggest disappointments for me were the LA Chargers and the Detroit Lions. I think the odds on the Chargers to win were around 1.16, and somehow they still managed to lose their game.

Hopefully, my luck will turn around in the upcoming rounds and I'll be able to give the leaders of the pool a run for their money.

Missed another couple of games I think on Round 2, and only got 6 points from the ones I did submit, but seeing 12 from "Improved5" (following up 11 on R1), I have to ask someone here who might know: if I start looking at bookie spread lines will that be more or less reflected in Sleeper and is that updated?

Or a simpler question: do the spreads on Sleeper reflect handicap lines, and if so, do they adjust dynamically as the market moves? Simply trying to see if I can't improve the way I make my picks here.

I'm running at 57% right now and tied for 9th. 4th place is miles away for me. It's tougher than it looks for anyone thinking picking winners is easy. Who's gonna cover a spread is extremely hard.

Only winged it for 8, but I can crack a smile having now caught up to cryptorfrka, who only got 1. The slow climb from 13th place got a little lighter. You're next, yahoo.


Thank you man. This is useful information; whether I use it or not remains to be seen (but don't hold your breath, I say a lot and do very little to firm the words up heh) but it might actually be something to think about when NFL enters other competitions I'm in (BS cough cough FL).

I shouldn't be too hard to beat, I am only averaging 7.3 wins per week. If I can stop picking with my heart and pick with my brain I might string together some decent weeks, but games like last night just baffle me. Cleveland having a strong start to their season was unexpected.

Better to mention it, so I remind myself of the mediocrity I've aligned myself with.


Sounds the way I pick my football (soccer) and explains why I don't do well in EPL pools...


I would be

So I entered picks early and am just cross-checking with current spreads -- itself a chore as it's difficult to identify the teams from Sleeper's abbreviations so I think I came out a bit more familair with some US cities now heh -- and I've made 7 changes. Initial picks favoured first teams with more wins (because, form, right?) and where they seemed even on form I always went with the underdog on handicap. But checking now on actual markets, I couldn't ignore odds than were lower than 17/10... let's see if this logic helps my picks!

Okay, I'm tired of this 50/50 shit.  I'm better at predicting these things than my record is showing.  And I'm pisssssed.  So y'all better look out.  A new and improved DW is here. 

In all seriousness, WTF is up with the spread for the Texans @ Titans battle for the bottom?

Hello new and improved DW, you improved by about 66% on your previous haul so it does look like you know what you're doing =) After a week of actually looking at odds and changing picks, I managed to drag myself right back to the bottom (where I probably belong). That's it for comparing markets and the spreads, back to the 50/50 picks; lost points trying to be smart and yeah it's a small sample I know but ain't nobody got time for that (every week)!