Overall Against the Spread: 39-33
Week 2: 9-7
Week 3: 8-6
Week 4: 7-9
Week 5: 7-6
Week 6: 8-5

Visiting locker rooms in college football.

If I’ve got you thinking about air conditioning, narrow staircases and a stinky latrine, then guess what? You aren’t thinking about how you’re going to beat me. And that’s the whole point.

Baseball is moving away from the sinker.

A trio of games don’t have spreads posted yet due to injury questions.

Overall Against the Spread: 31-28
Week 2: 9-7
Week 3: 8-6
Week 4: 7-9
Week 5: 7-6

Play all the positions.

The economics behind college football conference realignment.

Overall Against the Spread: 24-22
Week 2: 9-7
Week 3: 8-6
Week 4: 7-9

Come over to watch both MLB wild card games (Tuesday and Wednesday at 8pm). It’s exciting to watch a 162 game season suddenly hinge on one game. Game management to a whole new level.

Sports open house calendar updated with wild card games, some NFL, and some college basketball.

What Tuesday’s scandal means for the future of college basketball.

There is no obvious National League MVP.

Carson Wentz and the kicker the Bengals cut. BTW, the same week Elliott hits a 61-yd FG for the win, the Bengals kicker that they kept missed a FG in route to an overtime loss.

Interesting case of Pro Football Focus data on NBC telecasts.

PFF has invited coaches to study its process, to meet the analysts who watch that film and determine those ratings. [Chip] Kelly was so impressed, according to Collinsworth, that he bought a share of the the company.

Lions/Vikings line is not out yet.

Overall Against the Spread: 17-13
Week 2: 9-7
Week 3: 8-6

Count it.

College football imperialism.

Fastball velocity school.

More proof the Reds lag behind in analytics. I figured something like this was going to happen when I saw that the Dodgers were accumulating guys with high spin rates and that Cingrani had one of the highest.

Comparing top of the lineup to the bottom.

Bucs/Vikings line is not out yet. Despite being at home, Colts are underdogs to the Browns. The model concurs.

Overall Against the Spread: 9-7
Week 2: 9-7