by Mario Mergola | Oct 21, 2026
I like it. We’re steadily moving forward and even more steadily moving back to where we were a few weeks ago. I still always want to be cautious when we reach this point of the season and value appears to be shifting, but there is some good news ahead of us....
by Mario Mergola | Oct 14, 2026
That was a little better. But, in fairness, we knew it should be. This is a lengthy process and one that changes over time. Winning for a bunch of weeks and then losing one — even in spectacular fashion — should result in a reset. And it did. Now what?...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 7, 2026
Pitiful. But we’ve been here plenty of times and we know that, with so many good weeks, we were going to run into a terrible one. It’s the nature of the beast. Do I wish that were the case? Of course not. We are also at the end of the first quarter of the...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 30, 2026
I try to always exercise some caution as we enter this next phase of the regular season. That is, we have now had a few excellent weeks where the picks have aligned largely with how we like to approach them, and we might be overextended. It’s fair. If it happens...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 23, 2026
It was such a beautiful week. There’s no other way to put it. I always include the caveat that, just because a trend has worked in the past, it does not mean it will happen every single time. Still, even if the results don’t consistently point in our...
