by Mario Mergola | Aug 29, 2025
It is time. I love it. No matter how many things change, this is the constant I appreciate every single year. And, as always, it starts with you. As I wrote in last year’s article, I want to thank you first-and-foremost. It’s one thing for me to be excited...
by Mario Mergola | Mar 19, 2025
The more I read about strategies to win March Madness pools, the prouder I am that this column has focused on game theory more than game action. The problem, however, is that more people are focused on game theory, and that lowers the edge it has. Of course, that...
by Mario Mergola | Feb 7, 2025
I cracked my knuckles, pulled up an absurd amount of tabs on an already-packed browser, and starting researching. Looking for numbers, trend, anything that could help. In the end, I was able to pull together various fragments of information to form one coherent...
by Mario Mergola | Feb 3, 2025
I always write about the football-watching world and how it collectively views a set of games — or, in this case, a single game — because that can serve as a baseline. Heading into the Conference Championships, the general feeling about the pair of games...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 25, 2025
Based on our expected Conference Championships DFS game flow analysis published earlier, we can carry our thoughts into actual lineup positions. The long list of players that fit the requirements set forth by the projected flow of the game was cut dramatically by the...
