A 5.5 point favorite with no future value in week 2 that not many ppl will pick or a 12 point favorite that a lot of ppl will pick
I think that they way these pools are being looked at is very interesting. I have a small amount of experience playing in these pools for the last five years or so. I kind of feel that there may be to much looking ahead. Maybe it's variance but every time I forgo a pick I initially like for a team that has some value this week but none in the future. I find my self in the sweat of a life time or out of the pool. I may be completely wrong on this and I have no numbers to support what I'm saying. Just my feeling
There's not one week where I'd ever think of taking the skins this year.
What about a Buy back pool...lose any week up to week 6, you can buy back in but you still lose that team for any future use....it's ok to take less EV teams then, right? I have one of my pools like that...I generally use crappy teams during first 6 weeks knowing I might have to rebuy a few times.
Eagles loss would have wiped out a lot of entrants in the pools. I think being a bit riskier at the beginning can be smart in large pools since you want to have some future value in later rounds. Of course if your not around it will not matter much.
DENVER Kansas City -750 23% 30%
GREEN BAY New York -395 29% 30%
SAN FRANCISCO Chicago -299 5% 7%
New Orleans CLEVELAND -270 22% 10%
TAMPA BAY St. Louis -255 5% 7%
WASHINGTON Jacksonville -255 3% 6%
CINCINNATI Atlanta -244 0% 1%
Seattle San Diego -240 3% 2%
TENNESSEE Dallas -190 1% 1%
INDIANAPOLIS Philadelphia -159 0% 1%
New England MINNESOTA -158 2% 1%
Houston OAKLAND -143 3% 1%
BALTIMORE Pittsbugh -138 0% 0%
CAROLINA Detroit -137 0% 0%
Miami BUFFALO off 1% 0%
Arizona NEW YORK off 1% 1%
Lines are from Pinnacle as of 6:00am Wednesday, other totals are popularity from Yahoo and OFP.