by Mario Mergola | Jan 8, 2020
I make it a point to always profess my love for the second week of any season. This is because Week 2 of a given year provides the best opportunity to capitalize on overreaction. For a different reason, I always point to the second week of the playoffs as arguably the...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 2, 2020
I always find it interesting how and where value presents itself. In the regular season, there is almost always value in September simply by playing off people’s overreaction from Week 1 or the misplaced expectations from offseason moves. In the postseason, we...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 2, 2020
We have to give the National Football League some credit. The decision to fill Week 17 with only division games has continued to lead to incredible drama. This year, we barely had any major implications at stake – at least, compared to season finales of the past...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 26, 2019
I basically start and end every season with the same commentary in my introductions. That is, where others hate the first week of the year, I love it. But, where others are driven crazy by the lack of clarity entering the final week of each regular season, I, too,...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 18, 2019
Two weeks left. And they are sure to be unorthodox. Every year, I get cautious as we approach the last week of the season. We never truly know a team’s intention. Will it rest players? Go the full sixty minutes with them? Normally, this isn’t a problem in...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 11, 2019
Over the past few weeks, I have mentioned that spreads are getting incredibly close to what we are seeing reflected in the final scores of games. It makes sense. We now have three-quarters of a year’s worth of data at our fingertips, and it can be concluded...
