Not really unless you consider Carolina good. Oh, and Denver

I guess I meant teams that were likely picked...Not good. No one is picking Denver. I doubt Carolina was on many peoples radars

No one went out this week, unless they picked Carolina or Miami. Almost no one picked these teams.

Anyone else notice NE gets another favorable call to clinch the game that should of been a blowout but was close the whole game when over 50% of every pool is on them? I remember at least a couple games like this last year and it happened again this week; super suspect.

Lol so u think they're rigging the game to knock Ppl out of survivor pools. Hilarious

I'm not gonna drop the R word, but if anything it would be to keep the Patriots from losing (while conveniently during the week when over half the pool has picked them). But I can't be the only one that at least has seen this happen over and over again right? The end of Raiders game, the end of a Browns game last year come to mind immediately and I know there's been other occurrences.
Maybe I'll just start betting the underdog spreads heavily the next time this comes around.

maaybee

becuz the books take juice and/or run massive survivor pools?

I'm not saying it has anything to do with survivor pools directly, but damn the Pats get all the calls go their way in these situations.

that is just silly

I don't think it's as silly as you think. I had the exact same feeling as ProfBets and made a comment to another life-long Survivor player and he said he couldn't disagree as he cited last year as an example (we forgot it was the Browns game).

It seems that the public loses a little weeks 1 and 2 in the pool, then coasts for a few weeks surviving a few close calls, then gets killed around weeks 8-11.

I bet if you pulled data you'd see a pattern of a lot of people dropping out the first two weeks, then small steady eliminations, then a huge knockout punch ala the Titans losing at home to Jacksonville last year in Week 10.

K good so I'm not losing my **** then hah. How far back does ur data go? (Wonder if it's always on the Pats when they're an overwhelming fav and popularity % and get saved by last min suspect calls). This is only my 3rd season of these although luckily I've had some pretty good success so far.

Over 50% of all my pools were eliminated by week 2, this is def out of the ordinary I would think right? I see week 4 and 8 being pretty tough so we'll see this year. GL

I will try to pull some data. Point being is that in these 3000+ pools they aren't down to 50 people after 4 weeks. The top play holds up for a while and I thought that was a very fishy call on Sunday in the Patriots game. I happened to have the Patriots in many entries so it's not like I'm pissed. It seemed like they were bailed out.

wtf is this crap

AnywAy

Steelers this week ?

how quickly do u forget week 2 2012 when the Pats lost the the Cards on a last second play when over 40% of the players had them. stop wasting ur time w bogus experiments u delusional ****s

I'm liking the steelers at home. I feel the SD-Jacksonville game is a trap. Blake Bortles looked really good during the preseason and will give that offense some life (didn't really see game but he looked meh against colts).

Also I feel a very high % will be on the SD game. Avoid that game or put smaller # of entries on it and a SD loss will be huge. SF game offers most ev on survivor grid. Too much of a toss up to play that game imo. SF lost to Arizona which really isn't a great team (especially with a backup qb). Philly looks solid the season and I would put that game closer to a pk or -2.5 rather than SF -5.5 IMO.

Think i'll prolly spread this week like this: 8 entries- 5 Pitt, 2 SD, 1 IND

Pittsburgh Sports Talk Radio reporting McCown out with thumb injury.....leaves Mike Glennon....Pitt should roll this week.

Is that really a good thing for the Steelers? Many people feel Glennon is the more competent quarterback. He was decent when he played last year including defeating the Lions on the road.

Yeah Id much rather have McCown in there if I was picking Steelers.

+1 Martin and McCoy also expected to play. Still going with Steelers as they have 0 future value.

They're @ JAX next week. I know it's on the road and everything but at this point that seems half decent, no?

Saints seems like a slam dunk n
week 5 after Pitt this week
Especially if a lot of ppl in your league picked saints week 3

So we like Pitt over SD? SD Is -1000 but I don't feel comfy with it. No woodhead/Matthews leads me to think they'll have trouble moving the chains/converting 3rd downs. And bortles looked decent...granted its a rookie making his first start on the road but I just don't know. Pitt it is I guess

Going Pitt and SD for the 2 pools I'm in. Don't feel great about either one though, will maybe hedge a ML on Jax and Bucs.

Bortles looks legit , I'm probably gonna end up going with pit or ind.
I just feel like its one of those chargers game where they let everyone down.