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...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 30, 2016
Now, it gets tricky. Despite our best statistical week against the spread of the season – based on differing websites, this ranged anywhere from 10-5-1 to 12-4 – Week 12 surprisingly did little to establish a trend or direction. Indeed, the Patriots and...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 23, 2016
This is just impossible. There are bad weeks. There are bad months. But it is maddening to see that an entire season just refuses to play by the rules. This is nothing new, as we have basically written this same introduction a number of times over the past few months,...
by Mario Mergola | Nov 16, 2016
There it is. In one fell swoop, the rug was pulled from under the feet of the entire football-watching world. Only, unlike previous weeks, there were more feet standing on the rug. More feet to be tripped. Coincidence? Of course not. For the entire season, we have...
