Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Week 9 NFL picks

An average week last week with an 8-6 record, it seems like I have alternating this season. One week I have a really good week, the next, not so much. I now stand at 71-47 on the season, a .602 win percentage.

Chiefs at Chargers: Pick: Chargers
Cardinals at Packers: Pick: Packers
Broncos at Bengals: Pick: Broncos
Ravens at Browns: Pick: Ravens
Bears at Titans: Pick: Bears
Dolphins at Colts: Pick: Colts
Panthers at Redskins: Pick: Redskins
Lions at Jaguars: Pick: Lions
Bills at Texans: Pick: Texans
Buccanneers at Raiders: Pick: Buccaneers
Vikings at Seahawks: Pick: Seahawks
Steelers at Giants: Pick: Steelers
Cowboys at Falcons: Pick: Falcons
Eagles at Saints: Pick: Saints

Monday, October 29, 2012

NBA week one picks

Throughout the season, I will predict the Thursday night basketball TNT games, but with the NBA season starting tomorrow with a couple exciting games, I figured Id start the year with a special Tuesday night edition of NBA picks.

Celtics at Heat: If this game were in Boston Id give it some thought, but since its in Miami, where theyll be emotional raising the championship banner, Ill take the Heat. Pick: Heat

Mavericks at Lakers: Again, give me the home team. Pick: Lakers

Thursday night

Knicks at Nets: The opening of the Barclays center, and the Knicks are going to spoil the party. Pick: Knicks

Thunder at Spurs: pick: Spurs

Sunday, October 28, 2012

NCAA week 10 picks

I went 4-2 in picking Big Ten games this week, putting me at a nice 21-5 on the season. Another tough week outside the Big ten though, with a 1-2 record, now standing at 15-12 on the season.

Iowa at Indiana: Pick: Indiana
Nebraska at Michigan st: Pick: Nebraska
Michigan at Minnesota: Pick: Michigan
Illinois at Ohio st: Pick: Ohio st
Penn st at Purdue: Pick: Penn st

Outside the Big Ten. Now that the season is in the stretch run, Ill be extending the amount of games I pick outside the Big ten to five per week

Alabama at LSU: Pick: Alabama
Oregon at USC: Pick: Oregon
Texas A&M at Mississippi St: Pick: Texas A&M
Texas at texas Tech: Pick: Texas Tech
Oklahoma st at Kansas St: upset special! Pick: Oklahoma st

Big Ten standings: Too little to late for the Spartans, they win, but are still pretty much out of the race. Iowa and Michigan took big steps back and now it appears to be Nebraskas division to lose. The Badgers lost but as long as they beat Indiana they still wont be challenged for the division title.

Legends division:
1. Nebraska: 3-1
2. Michigan: 3-1
3. Northwestern: 3-2
4. Iowa: 2-2
5. Michigan st: 2-3
6. Minnesota: 1-3

Leaders Divison:
1. Wisconsin: 3-2
2. Indiana: 1-3
3. Purdue: 0-4
4. Illinois: 0-4

Nobody had been eliminated yet in either division but expect the eliminations to start this week.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Week 8 NFL picks

I came back to form last week, going 10-3 and improving to 63-41 for the season, a .606 win percentage.

Buccaneers at Vikings: Pick: Vikings
Jaguars at Packers: Pick: Packers
Panthers at Bears: Pick: Bears
Chargers at Browns: Pick: Chargers
Seahawks at Lions: Pick: Lions
Colts at Titans: Pick: Titans
Patriots at Rams: Pick: Patriots
Dolphins at Jets: Pick: Jets
Falcons at Eagles: Pick: Eagles
Redskins at Steelers: Pick: Steelers
Raiders at Chiefs: Pick: Raiders
Giants at Cowboys: Pick: Cowboys
Saints at Broncos: Pick: Broncos
49ers at Cardinals: Pick: 49ers



Sunday, October 21, 2012

NCAA week 9 picks

I wnt 4-1 in picking Big Ten games last week, now standing at an impressive 17-3 on the season.  I wonder if I was drunk when I picked my non big ten games though, I went 0-3 in those contests, and I honestly am not sure what I was thinking on a couple of them. Oh well, 14-10 in non Big ten games on the year.

Iowa at Northwestern: Pick: Northwestern
Indiana at Illinois: Pick: Indiana
Purdue at Minnesota: Pick: Purdue
Michigan st at Wisconsin: Pick: Wisconsin
Ohio st at Penn st: Pick: Ohio st
Michigan at Nebraska: Pick: Nebraska

Wow, those are all really tough games, it will be interesting to see how I do this week in my picks.

Outside the Big ten

Florida at Georgia: Pick: Florida
Notre Dame at Oklahoma: Pick: Oklahoma
Texas Tech at Kansas St: Pick: Kansas st

Big ten standings: Well, the legends division, which was a five team race going into the week, is now a four team race with Michigan st bowing out, and Northwestern and Iowa are both on the brink of bowing out themselves. It looked for a second like Purdue may actually throw themselves back into the conversation but then faltered against Ohio st and the Badgers now have a huge amount of seperation in what appears to be an inseperable lead. Who would have thought Michigan st would be out of it just halfway through the Big ten season? The official magic number for them to be eliminated is already down to two.

Legends division
1. Michigan (3-0)
2. Nebraska (2-1)
3. Iowa (2-1)
4. Northwestern (2-2)
5. Michigan st (1-3)
6. Minnesota (0-3)

Leaders division
1. Wisconsin (3-1)
2. Purdue (0-3)
3. Illinois (0-3)
4. Indiana (0-3)

The magic number for Purdue and Illinois to be eliminated is two, and for Indiana it is three.

Looking at the national picture, Kansas st, Rutgers, Louisville, Notre Dame, Ohio, Oregon, Oregon st, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi st, and Ohio st are the remaining undefeated teams. When will these teams lose? lets take a look.

Kansas st has five matchups left against top 30 teams, but the highest ranked of the bunch is against number 17 texas tech. At TCU may be their hardest game left.

Rutgers plays Louisville this week in a game that will eliminate one of those unbeaten

Notre Dame has games at Oklahoma and USC, they wont win both, if either

Ohio isnt a BCS team, nor a legitimate championsip threat

Oregon will go undefeated, at least until the Pac 12 championship

Oregon st will lose to Oregon in late November

Florida will be unbeaten until they play FSU. If they get past that, they wont beat Bama in the sec championship game

Bama will go unbeaten through the regular season

Miss St will lose to Alabama this week

Ohio st is ineligble

Of the 11 teams, I see no way Notre Dame, Florida, Oregon st, or Mississippi st finish undefeated.

Ohio and Ohio st wont be in the championship game even if they do go undefeated.

No Big East will make the championship game

So in my humble opinion, the only team that can disrupt an oregon-Bama championship is Kansas st. Unless Oregon loses to USC in either the regular season or the PAC 12 championship game. Then we may have chaos on our hands.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

NBA standings predictions

Because Im bored

Western conference:

1. OKC Thunder
2. LA Lakers
3. San Antonio Spurs
4. Denver Nuggets
5.LA Clippers
6. Utah Jazz
7. Minnesota Timberwolves
8. Memphis Grizzlies
9. Dallas Mavericks
10. Golden State Warriors
11. Portland Trailblazers
12. New Orleans Hornets
13. Houston Rockets
14. Phoenix Suns
15. Sacramento Kings

Eastern Conference
1. Miami Heat
2. Boston Celtics
3. New York Knicks
4. Atlanta Hawks
5. Indiana Pacers
6. Brooklyn Nets
7. Philadelphia 76ers
8. Chicago Bulls
9. Milwaukee Bucks
10. Cleveland Cavaliers
11. Washington Wizards
12. Orlando Magic
13. Toronto Raptors
14. Detroit Pistons
15. Charlotte Bobcats

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Updated packers MVP standings

I havent dont MVP for Packers games since week two, but I figured Id go back over the past four games and name my MVPs and see where the team ranks through six games. here are the standings after two games.

Cobb: 1 point
Matthews: 1 point
Masthay: 0.5 points
Crosby: 0.5 points
Williams: 0.5 points
Kuhn: 0.5 points

The rules are only one point is awarded after a loss, after a win one point is awarded to the top MVP, then several half points may be awarded to other players.

Week 3 vs Seahawks: Most of the reason I didnt do MVP after the second game was because this game was such a dumpster fire it was nearly impossible for me to think of an MVP. I ended up narrowing it down between Finley and Hawk, choosing Hawk at the end of the day, mostly because the defense as a whole performed much better than the offense as a whole, plus Finley still had a couple drops. One point for AJ Hawk

Week 4 vs Saints: James Jones takes away a full point for this game. Two touchdown receptions, plus a crazy catch to ice the games. Rodgers finally makes an appearance in the MVP talk, but only with a half point. Cedric Benson also gets half a point, with his most productive game of the season to date.

Week 5 Vs Colts: This one was even tougher than the Seahawks game. No one played at a great level, but several played at a high level to be considered here. Unlike the Seahawks game where i easily narrowed it to two, I narrowed this one down to DJ Smith, James Jones, Clay Matthews, and even Tim Masthay. I was just about to give it to Masthay, but ended up giving it to Jones, for a second straight week too.

Week 6 Vs Texans: Finally, after six games, Rodgers takes home the MVP of the week honors for the team. For a third straight week, Jones gets on the board with a half a point this time. Jordy Nelson also gets a half point, along with Alex green, who had an effective game in his first try as a starter this year. On the defensive side Casey Hayward gets a half point for two picks, as well as Hawk with yet another solid game. Finally, tim Masthay gets a half point, with 3 punts inside the 20. It wasnt a stand out performance, but with his four inside the 20 last week, i figured the two games combined should earn him at least a half point. Clearly, this was the most complete game of the season, as evidenced by the long list of names.

Now, the standings through six games this season:
Randall Cobb: 1 point
Tim Masthay: 1 point
Clay Matthews: 1 point
Mason Crosby: 0.5 points
Tramon Williams: 0.5 points
John Kuhn: 0.5 points
AJ Hawk: 1.5 points
James Jones: 2.5 points
Aaron Rodgers: 1.5 points
Cedric Benson: 0.5 points
Jordy Nelson: 0.5 points
Alex Green: 0.5 points
Casey Hayward: 0.5 points

James Jones, Aaron Rodgers, and AJ Hawk lead the way so far this year. One of those names is not surprising, the other two very much are, but theyve both really deserved it, especially Jones. Hopefully they keep it up!

Monday, October 15, 2012

NFL week 7 picks

I went an average 7-7 week last week, my second worst week of the season percentage wise, I have a 53-38 season record, a .582 winning percentage. I would really like to have a .600 percentage for the year so I have some work to do.

Seahawks at 49ers: pick: 49ers. The first couple weeks of the season I said I will almost always take the home team in a Thursday night game, then I got burned picking Carolina over the Giants, so I started taking roads teams, only to get burned the past two weeks by St Louis and Tennessee. Back to the home team.

Titans at Bills: Pick: Bills
Browns at Colts: Pick: Colts
Packers at Rams: Pick: Packers. I actually picked against my Packers last week and they proved me wrong. I wont pick against them again for awhile.
Cardinals at Vikings: Tough one, gotta take the queens unfortunately. Pick: Vikings
Redskins at Giants: Big upset, Im taking the skins. This is a classic trap game for the Giants, who always perform out of their minds when people expect them lose, but then follow it up with a lackluster performance to an inferior team. Pick: Redskins
Saints at Buccaneers: Pick: Saints
Cowboys at Panthers: Pick: Cowboys
Ravens at Texans: Pick: Texans
Jaguars at Raiders: Pick: Raiders
Jets at Patriots: Pick: Patriots
Steelers at Bengals: Pick: Bengals going for another upset!
Lions at Bears: Pick: Bears

NCAA week 8 picks

I went 4-1 in picking Big Ten games last week, putting me at 13-2 overall for the season. Both of my losses came from picking Michigan st to win when they lost. I wont make that mistake again. I went 2-1 outside the Big Ten, and am now 14-7 in those games this season.

Purdue at Ohio St: Pick: Ohio st
Minnesota at Wisconsin: Pick: Wisconsin
Nebraska at Northwestern: Pick: Nebraska
Michigan st at Michigan: Pick: Michigan
Penn St at Iowa: Pick: Iowa

Outside the Big Ten
South Carolina at Florida: Pick: South Carolina
Kansas St at West Virginia: Pick: West Virginia
LSU at Texas A&M: Pick: Texas A&M

Big ten Standings: Its a tale of two divisons right now. The legends division is an absolute crapshoot, literally any of the six teams except for maybe Minnesota can make a legitimate case they will be in the Big Ten championship game, although Michigan states chance is dwindling. If the Spartans and Wildcats both lose this week like I think they will, that should eliminate those two teams and leave a three team race in place in that division between Michigan, Nebraska, and Iowa. If the Spartans somehow beat Michigan, it could get very crazy in that division race. In the Leaders division, the Badgers can basically hit the snooze button. They have a two game lead against three teams who lok incapable of winning two games. One more win for Wisconsin should be the nail in the coffin, and that win should come this weekend against the Gophers.

Legends
1. Iowa (2-0)
2. Michigan (2-0)
3. Northwesterm (2-1)
4. Nebraska (1-1)
5. Michigan st (1-2)
6. Minnesota (0-2)

Leaders
1. Wisconsin (2-1)
2. Purdue (0-2)
3. Indiana (0-3)
4. Illinois (0-3)

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

NFL week six picks

I went 9-5 last week, to improve to 46-31 on the season. To compare myself to the ESPN experts, I have a better record than Mike Ditka, Mark Schlereth, Ron Jaworski, Keyshawn Johnson, Tom Jackson, Marcus Allen, and Accuscore, which means I have a better record than a computer. I am way behind Chris Mortensen and Adam Wickersham, who are having great seasons picking games. I am tied with Merril Hoge and Chris Carter, and I am withing two games of Mike Golic, and Adam Schefter. lets get to it

Steelers at Titans: Pick: Steelers
Raiders at Falcons: Pick: Falcons
Bengals at Browns: Pick: Bengals
Rams at Dolphins: Pick: Dolphins
Colts at Jets: Pick: Jets
Lions at Eagles: Pick: Eagles
Chiefs at Buccaneers: Pick: Buccaneers
Cowboys at Ravens: Pick: Ravens
Bills at Cardinals: Pick: Cardinals
Patriots at Seahawks: Pick: Patriots
Giants at 49ers: Pick: 49ers
Vikings at Redskins: Pick: Redskins
Packers at Texans: Pick: Texans
Broncos at Chargers: Pick: Broncos

NCAA week seven picks

I went a perfect 5-0 in picking big Ten games this week, putting me at a stellar 9-1 after two weeks. I went a less than perfect 1-2 in picking non Big ten games, but still stand at 12-6 in the category for the season.

Iowa at Michigan st: Pick: Michigan St

Northwestern at Minnesota: Pick: Northwestern

Wisconsin at Purdue: Pick: Wisconsin

Illinois at Michigan: Pick: Michigan

Ohio state at Indiana: Pick: Ohio st

Big ten standings through two weeks (Eligible teams only.)

legends
1. Iowa: 1-0
2. Michigan: 1-0
3. Northwestern: 1-1
4. Michigan st: 1-1
5. Nebraska: 1-1
6. Minnesota: 0-1

Leaders
1. WIsconsin: 1-1
2. Purdue: 0-1
3. Indiana: 0-2
4.Illinois: 0-2

Outside the Big Ten

South Carolina at LSU: Pick: LSU
Stanford at Notre Dame: pick: Stanford
Texas at Oklahoma: Pick: Oklahoma

Monday, October 1, 2012

NFL week 5 picks

I went a nice 12-3 last week, a huge improvement over the week before, though some of the games were easier to predict. I now stand at 37-26 on the season, better than most of the experts.

Cardinals at Rams: Pick: Cardinals

Dolphins at Bengals: Pick: Bengals

Packers at Colts: Pick: Packers

Ravens at Chiefs: Pick: Ravens

Browns at Giants: pick: Giants

Eagles at Steelers: Pick: Steelers

Falcons at Redskins: Pick: Redskins

Seahawks at Panthers: Pick: Panthers

Bears at Jaguars: Pick: Bears

Titans at Vikings: Pick: Vikings

Broncos at Patriots: pick: Patriots

Bills at 49ers: pick: 49ers

Chargers at Saints: Pick: Saints

Texans at Jets: Pick: Texans

Week 6 NCAA picks

Wow, sixth week of college football already, I went 4-1 in picking Big Ten games in the first week of conference action, a good start. Plus 2-1 in games outside of the Big Ten, making me 11-4 in those games so far this season.

Michigan st at Indiana: Pick: Michigan st

Northwestern at Penn st: Pick: Penn St

Illinois at Wisconsin: Pick: Wisconsin

Michigan at Purdue: Pick: Michigan

Nebraska at Ohio st: Pick: Ohio St

Outside the Big ten

LSU at Florida: Pick: LSU

Georgia at South Carolina: Pick: Georgia

West Virginia at Texas: Pick: West Virginia

Thats right, all road teams in these big games, bold picks this week!