2023 Three Best Bets -- Week 1

[Screw_Michigan]

Get ready, players! I'll have lines up tonight after tennis

[Screw_Michigan]

Here are lines, bitches! As a primer for you idiots who still don't understand how the lines read---

ROAD TEAM (LINE) HOME TEAM (OVER/UNDER)

WEEK 1

DET +5.5 KC 52.5
CAR +3.5 ATL 39.5
HOU +10 BAL 43.5
CIN -2.5 CLE 47.5
JAX -4.5 IND 45.5
TB +6 MIN 45.5
TEN +3 NO 41.5
SF -2.5 PIT 40.5
ARI +7 WSH 38.5
GB +1.5 CHI 43.5
LV +4 DEN 44
MIA +3 LAC 50.5
PHI -3.5 NE 45
LAR +5.5 SEA 45.5
DAL -3.5 NYG 46.5
BUF -2.5 NYJ 46.5

[Biggie]

Oh let’s fucking go.

I am fired up for the triumphant return of 3BB.

[Biggie]

Little grudge match between Phibes and Jobs this season. They’ve got a score to settle. Both are +390 to win on DraftKings, co-favorites.

Wonder how poptart will deal with the increased “Minimum Bid” rule.

Will TWIS show up? Goddamn I hope so.

Hope there’s new blood this year.

[Biggie]

Hope there’s new blood this year.

RACK all koala_caramel resets.

[Softball Bat]

Wonder how poptart will deal with the increased “Minimum Bid” rule.

I have 3 games eyeballed in week 1. Not sure if I will pull the trigger on all 3.


Yes, reminder to the playahs...

SM has established that in order to be eligible for year end honors, one must average 2 picks per week.

3Best Bets runs all the way through the Super Bowl.

The person who has the highest percentage of correct picks is the winner, not the person who has the overall most picks correct for the season.

Best percentage wins, so long as you have averaged 2 picks per week.

As Biggie noted, Steve Jobs and Dr_Phibes were co-champs last season, coming in at .583.


Let the games begin!

[Biggie]

Q for the judges:

Can you pick (for example) the Thursday game, a Sunday game, and the Monday game in three separate posts, so long as each post is made before the relevant kickoff?

[Softball Bat]

Yes

[Biggie]

Q for the judges:

If you win two and push one, is your weekly record 2-0 or 2-0-1?

[Softball Bat]

I think a push has always been tallied as "no pick," so it would be 2-0.

[Biggie]

I thnk that’s correct, but I propose a rule change to make it 2-0-1. Player doesn’t get harmed on the “Minimum Bid” and percentage remains the same.

[Biggie]

And a spicy suggestion-each player gets to designate 1 game (for the whole year) as their 3BB Triple Play Lock of the Year. If they get it right, it counts for 3-0. Lose, 0-3. Push, 0-1.

[Biggie]

OFFICIAL PICKS

CHI -1.5
MIA/LAC over 50.5
NYG +3.5

[Softball Bat]

I thnk that’s correct, but I propose a rule change to make it 2-0-1. Player doesn’t get harmed on the “Minimum Bid” and percentage remains the same.

It is fine either way, as far as I'm concerned.

SM can feel free to tally it as he sees fit.
He is running the show for the first half of the season.

[Softball Bat]

And a spicy suggestion-each player gets to designate 1 game (for the whole year) as their 3BB Triple Play Lock of the Year. If they get it right, it counts for 3-0. Lose, 0-3. Push, 0-1.

This is an interesting suggestion.

A player could keep this in his back pocket and use it near the end of the season, as a "Hail Mary" sort of thing.

Or he could use it at any point in the season, if he has very strong conviction about a certain game.

Why don't we put it to a vote of the players?


Players, when you submit your picks this week, please vote yes or no on Biggie's spicy suggestion.

[Roach]

JAX -4.5
PHI -3.5
DAL -3.5

Yes on Biggie's proposal

[The Whistle Is Screaming]

Will TWIS show up? Goddamn I hope so.

As you wish Biggie....

LV +4 DEN 44 - LV+4
MIA +3 LAC 50.5 - MIA+3
PHI -3.5 NE 45 - PHI-3.5 (sup Kenny?)

I will select 3 games In a row from the list and wild ass guess on them. There will be no research on any match-up.

What is my o/u on finishing last?

[Biggie]

What is my o/u on finishing last?

You’re one of the darlings of the preseason scribes, coming off of your 4th place finish last year. You beat me and Roach by like 20 games, so don’t play dumb with me tough guy.

[kcdave]

I may be interested in playing this season.
Questions - what source do you use for the lines?
Do you adjust the lines?

SM posted "DET +5.5 KC 52.5"
Everywhere I look has DET +4.5

Please advise asap.

[Softball Bat]

We hope you play, dave!

The lines that SM posts (usually early in the week) do not change at all.
If SM posts the lines on Tuesday morning, they stay that way all the way until kickoff.

I am not sure what source SM is using.

I can't recall for sure what source I used last season.

[Screw_Michigan]

I may be interested in playing this season.
Questions - what source do you use for the lines?
Do you adjust the lines?

SM posted "DET +5.5 KC 52.5"
Everywhere I look has DET +4.5

Please advise asap.

I use one of the lines provided from Covers.com. WGAF which exact source I use. I run the game, I use the lines I want to use.

If the line is different from "everywhere you look," then use that to your advantage. Sometimes mistakes are made as well. Use those to your advantage. Or whine and cry.

Stick to your roll call threads.

[Screw_Michigan]

The lines that SM posts (usually early in the week) do not change at all.
If SM posts the lines on Tuesday morning, they stay that way all the way until kickoff.

Correct. We've been doing this for over 15 years and nothing has changed, except that I will start counting ties toward the total pick count minimum.

[Troll#3]

TEN +3

ARI/WSH over 38.5

MIA +3


Spicy suggestion: abstain

[Screw_Michigan]

DET +5.5

[Dr_Phibes]

PIT + 2.5
PHI - 3.5
NYG + 3.5

[kcdave]

I may be interested in playing this season.
Questions - what source do you use for the lines?
Do you adjust the lines?

SM posted "DET +5.5 KC 52.5"
Everywhere I look has DET +4.5

Please advise asap.

I use one of the lines provided from Covers.com. WGAF which exact source I use. I run the game, I use the lines I want to use.

If the line is different from "everywhere you look," then use that to your advantage. Sometimes mistakes are made as well. Use those to your advantage. Or whine and cry.

Stick to your roll call threads.

How about you stick your contest straight up your fucking ass.
As a newcomer I asked 2 legitimate questions. Instead of choosing
to answer in a professional manner as anyone should that runs a contest
you chose to reinforce the fact that you always have been, and will continue
to be a rude cocksucker. Eat shit and die, ya prick!

[Softball Bat]

Your questions were legitimate, dave.

You ran a pick 'em game for many years.
You put time and energy into running it, and you don't get paid to do so.
You know that invariably you get a participant(s) who gripes about something, and it isn't really pleasant.

So please just chalk this up to SM going into smack m0de because he perceived that you were wanting to start a gripe session.

Let it pass and enjoy playing the game.
It is a lot of fun!

SM handles duties for the 1st half of this season, and I handle it for the 2nd half.

We want you to play!

[Steve Jobs]

TB +6
ARI +7
LAR +5.5

Would the Triple Play Lock be optional or must-do?


yo ho ho

[Softball Bat]

Good to see you, S. Jobs!

The way I understand Biggie's proposal is that it would be optional.
If a person choose never to use it during the season, so be it.

But if I am not correct on that, Biggie can chime in and correct me.

[Softball Bat]

ATL -3.5
CLE +2.5
PIT +2.5

I vote yes on Biggie's proposal, but am good either way.


Thank you, SM!

[Smackie Chan]

SF -2.5
LAC -3
SEA -5.5

[HighPlainsGrifter]

Hope there’s new blood this year.

RACK all koala_caramel resets.

Peter Falk RACKS this.

I haven't watched NFL in 10 years. That means if I don't finish last you guys are terrible.

PHI -3.5
LAR @ SEA OVER 45.5
BUF -2.5

[Dr_Phibes]

Stick to your roll call threads.

Eat shit and die

Well we're off to a flying start.

[Softball Bat]

I haven't watched NFL in 10 years. That means if I don't finish last you guys are terrible.

PHI -3.5
LAR @ SEA OVER 45.5
BUF -2.5

It's great to see you IN the game, Grifter!

[Softball Bat]

Stick to your roll call threads.

Eat shit and die

Well we're off to a flying start.

lol

Yeah, but hopefully dave will overlook this and get IN the game.

[Biggie]

The way I understand Biggie's proposal is that it would be optional.
If a person choose never to use it during the season, so be it.

Yes, exactly.

[Donnie Baker's Ghost]

Thanks for running the game, Screwy.

TEN / NO over 41.5
ARI / WSH under 38.5
LV / DEN over 44

[HighPlainsGrifter]

It's great to see you IN the game, Grifter!

Thanks, but it's going to be an outrageous shit show on my end. By week three I'll be picking teams based on favorite color. I'll be that girl in the office pool who won a March Madness bracket by picking which mascot could beat up the other mascot. That's not a bad idea, actually.

[Screw_Michigan]

MIN -6
MIA +3

[Softball Bat]

NYG +3.5

NYG +3.5

Just a bit outside.

- Bob Uecker