by Mario Mergola | Jan 6, 2017
In any sport, the postseason features a level of randomness that is not always present during the regular season. Specifically, in the National Football League – where each matchup is an elimination game – a few ‘bad breaks’ can not only end a...
by Mario Mergola | Jan 5, 2017
Playoff seeding and positioning is always a funny, tricky ordeal. Like many areas of life, it changes with a different viewpoint. What looks appealing from one side might be exactly what the other wants, as well. Naturally, one will be wrong. The entire AFC playoff...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 29, 2016
32 teams. Sixteen games. Seventeen weeks of football all comes to an end on the start of a new calendar year. The 2016 NFL season has been anything but smooth, and it is poetic for the final week of the regular season to be rocky from start-to-finish. As always, the...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 21, 2016
The 2016 NFL regular season only has two more weeks remaining, but the final set of games played during this calendar year ends now. While we all like to count our statistics on a season-by-season basis, we are somewhat alone in this endeavor. The industry of picking...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 15, 2016
It is only fitting for one of the wackiest NFL seasons in recent memory to conclude with a few wacky scheduling quirks – and, by extension, oddities against the spread. After this week, a full ‘Sunday’ schedule of games will be played on Saturday...
by Mario Mergola | Dec 7, 2016
Finally. Finally, a move was made. And finally, we have a week set up for excitement. We began last week’s column with the notion that a relatively random set of outcomes had been featured recently and mentioned that this lack of a developing trend placed the...
