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Week 1: 2018 B1G ATS Results

You suck at this. Yes, you. - Mike Carter-USA TODAY Sports

Front-paged to show that I can be a big enough man to admit that I suck at this. --MNW

Also, see the Week 2 ATS competition here.

FOOTBALL. It was a long, grueling offseason. But we survived it together! And we were so excited for the season that we had a record 36 participants in week 1 - there were only 26 participants in all of 2017.

Before I get too far...

Texas football is:

[ ] BAK

[ X ] NOT BAK

Week 1 was a thing that happened, and much like a handful of B1G teams, it's a thing most of us wannabe bettors would like to forget. Overall, we went 197-235. That's a correct pick rate of 0.456 and an overall net of -$6150 DelanyBucks.

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(Most of us betting, and Michigan fans, on Sunday morning)

Note that since the Nebraska/Akron game was canceled, I treated that game as PUSH and took it out of the results entirely. So results are out of 12 games total. Scoring is based on a standard bet of $110 to win $100.

Week 1 Results:

8-4 (+$360): BradNortmansActingCoach, Bagels are for champions, hoeger, pomeroyarn, M1EK, SDWYO

7-5 (+$150): bucksfan92, Dead Read, 87 Rides A Surfboard, K_Sull, beezer07

6-6 (-$60): ziowa9, StewartRL, RockyMtnBlue, thibtwin, 87Townie, Turtle Shell, ICEICETHATGUY13

5-7 (-$270): boilerlion31, SpartanHT, NickMarkaces, GoForThree, bdym, HoyaGoon

4-8 (-$480): 06Lion, Boilerman31, AlltheIowanamesaretaken, TheJrod, dbl5030, trasch_man, Derek Graff

3-9 (-$690): Hollywood Hawk Hogan, Green 96, MH19, MNWildcat

2-8 (-$900): Badgers & Bruins

Bold Move, Cotton: We had a couple incomplete entries this week - failing to pick a game counts as an automatic loss. Hollywood Hawk Hogan purposefully didn't choose a winner between UM/ND. Turtle Shell and ICEICETHATGUY13 forgot to pick a winner of Wisconsin/Western Kentucky, while ICE also forgot to pick UM/ND.

Smarter Than Everyone Else Picks of the Week:

Only 7 people correctly picked Utah State to cover vs MSU:

  • ziowa9, StewartRL, SpartanHT, MH19, 87Townie, NickMarkaces, bdym

Similarly, only 7 people correctly picked Maryland to cover vs Texas:

  • bucksfan92, boilerlion31, RockyMtnBlue, 87 Rides A Surfboard, 87Townie, SDWYO, Turtle Shell

Close Call of the Week: Early in the 4th quarter, Indiana kicked a FG to extend their 14-point lead to 17. Anyone who took IU -10.5 was pulling their hair out for the next 9 minutes, as FIU went down the field in 4 to cut the lead down to 10 points exactly, helped along greatly by two costly IU penalties and a 4th-and-4 conversion. Indiana recovered the onside kick attempt and never looked back - 10 of the last 11 plays kept the ball on the ground to run out the final 6+ minutes, dashing the hopes of FIU fans and IU bettors.

On to the standings!

An asterisk (*) denotes a player who has participated every week.

TOTAL 197 235 -6150 0.456
Results Week 1 W L $ %
BradNortmansActingCoach* 8 4 360 0.667
Bagels are for champions* 8 4 360 0.667
hoeger* 8 4 360 0.667
pomeroyarn* 8 4 360 0.667
M1EK* 8 4 360 0.667
SDWYO* 8 4 360 0.667
bucksfan92* 7 5 150 0.583
Dead Read* 7 5 150 0.583
87 Rides A Surfboard* 7 5 150 0.583
K_Sull* 7 5 150 0.583
beezer07* 7 5 150 0.583
ziowa9* 6 6 -60 0.500
StewartRL* 6 6 -60 0.500
RoxkyMtnBlue* 6 6 -60 0.500
thibtwin* 6 6 -60 0.500
87Townie* 6 6 -60 0.500
Turtle Shell* 6 6 -60 0.500
ICEICETHATGUY13* 6 6 -60 0.500
boilerlion31* 5 7 -270 0.417
SpartanHT* 5 7 -270 0.417
NickMarkaces* 5 7 -270 0.417
GoForThree* 5 7 -270 0.417
bdym* 5 7 -270 0.417
HoyaGoon* 5 7 -270 0.417
06Lion* 4 8 -480 0.333
Boilerman31* 4 8 -480 0.333
AlltheIowanamesaretaken* 4 8 -480 0.333
TheJrod* 4 8 -480 0.333
dbl5030* 4 8 -480 0.333
trasch_man* 4 8 -480 0.333
Derek Graff* 4 8 -480 0.333
Hollywood Hawk Hogan* 3 9 -690 0.250
Green 96* 3 9 -690 0.250
MH19* 3 9 -690 0.250
MNWildcat* 3 9 -690 0.250
Badgers & Bruins* 2 10 -900 0.167

As always, please leave a comment if you think I made an error - I will make corrections as necessary.

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